Policing of protests 'not changed since miners' strike'

Police behaviour with protesters has not changed since the miners' strike, campaigners for the newly announced inquiry into Orgreave have said, as they warned of potential "further injustices".

- Robyn Vinter

Speaking at a press conference after Labour revealed it would hold a statutory inquiry into violent policing at the picket, the Orgreave Truth and Justice campaign said lessons had not been learned since that day 41 years ago.

"We look now at all the demonstrations, the rallies, the peaceful protests that are going on all the way through [history, since Orgreave] and happening now" and police behaviour has not changed, said Chris Hockney, one of the campaigners.

"Basically, they are there as agents of the state, and we end up seeing it time after time after time. And there will be further injustices perpetrated because the police do what they do."