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Jody McIntyre is a friend of mine, the treatment he received from both police and the BBC newsreader was ridiculous. Watching the interview the guy was obviously trying to make Jody out as if he is the bad person in all this, and posed his questions in such a way that he thought Jody would trip up, but he handled it very well. It's a shame that a few idiots in the crowd tarnished the real message this protest hoped to acheive. I know for a fact that there were large groups of people there only to cause chaos, robbing people, hurling stuff at police. The police's reaction was to charge the protesters, what do they think the reaction is going to be when you charge a group of people, peaceful or otherwise? I read somewhere that they will introduce water cannons at protests soon. This can only make things worse...