The Home Secretary condemned 'unacceptable thuggery' after bottles and cans were thrown at police officers in Parliament Square.
"That is simply unacceptable and the individuals that are basically putting the safety of our police officers and the safety of the public at risk will expect to face the full force of the law."Mayor of London Sadiq Khan condemned the brutality aimed at police, writing on Twitter:"Millions of Londoners will have been disgusted by the shameful scenes of violence, desecration and racism displayed by the right-wing extremists who gathered in our city.
Those arrested were suspected of offences including breach of the peace, violent disorder, assaulting officers, possession of an offensive weapon, being drunk and disorderly, and possession of Class A drugs. He described the demonstrators as a"disparate group" consisting of far-right activists from the English Defence League and the Football Lads Alliance, as well as members of the public and ex-servicemen and women who were genuinely concerned about statues being vandalised.
"There was a small altercation we witnessed when they entered the park - they were fighting with a young person," he reported.One 16-year-old who was attacked by those protesters told Sky News:"Nothing was really happening, there was no violence - and then I saw this big group of white men."One of the guys threw a bottle at me, some guy tripped me up, they all just ran towards me.
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