A police officer was hit in the face by a bottle and another was punched in the face on Sunday.
Three men were arrested and two police officers injured in clashes after about 600 protesters gathered on a Dorset seafront.
Some 200 Stand Up to Racism demonstrators were on a different part of the Weymouth Esplanade than a larger group of about 400 anti-immigration protesters on Sunday. Dorset Police’s assistant chief constable Mark Callaghan said two men from Somerset and a man from Weymouth were arrested afterMr Callaghan said he was “disappointed” that an officer was hit in the face by a bottle and another was punched in the face.There had been "rumours circulating" that asylum seekers currently living on the Bibby Stockholm would move to Portland, Weymouth or the wider Dorset Council area.No asylum seekers are currently living in hotels in Weymouth.
“Our approach to this operation was to enable peaceful protests, but if people were intent on committing public order or criminal offences, they would be dealt with robustly as such behaviours would not be tolerated and this is the style of policing that we have delivered and what our communities expect," Mr Callaghan said.
A 42-year-old man from Yeovil was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence, and a 62-year-old man from the same town was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.Officers from Dorset, along with others from Devon and Cornwall, Avon and Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, were deployed.
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