Statue protesters throw bottles and run into police as they 'defend' memorials in London

Violence in capital as groups say they will defend Winston Churchill statue which, er, has been boarded up anyway

Footage posted to social media shows demonstrators throwing missiles – including empty vodka bottles – at officers near Parliament Square.

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