VIDEO: Police Charge Into Students With Horses

Originally police denied that horses had charged into protesting students at high speed, but this video footage by Massif101 clearly shows the unprovoked attack taking place. Before the YouTube footage was released, a Met spokesperson had said, ""Police horses were involved in the operation, but that didn't involve charging the crowd." The spokesperson said horses may have been used "to help control the crowd for everyone's benefit", but added "police officers charging the crowd – we would say: no, they did not charge the crowd."
Watch the footage for yourself and form your own opinions.


Questions have also been raised about Police reports that claimed they kettled students because an empty police van had been vandalised. Apparently Sky News filmed twelve minutes before the police decision to contain the protesters showed demonstrators milling around by a police van, which the Met said they had abandoned because "officers felt vulnerable". This has led to accusations that the van was left deliberately to "bait" protesters. It was later vandalised, reports The Guardian.

Massif101 has released this statement about the video: "I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone that's helped to spread this around, it really means a lot. hopefully now someone will be made to answer for the days events, including the use of a sacrificial police van as bait to justify their tactics against us.
I wasn't planning on uploading this, I assumed the BBC would mention it along with their coverage of all the other protests, they haven't.
These protesters are not those who were kettled outside the treasury building, we weren't allowed in for that, after some kids had started fires and thrown some sticks n junk at the police lines separating us from the main protest they began to move forward.
This happened about an hour and a half after police started pushing us back, they had already deployed the cavalry 3 times, although those instances were less aggressive than this one.
I have decided to follow the anticuts campaign and make a documentary out of all the footage I gather, so this will eventually be in there.