Via Dizzy Thinks – a video of Brian Haws arrest and the minutes before:
Having seen this I must say the Police do seem to be being quite reasonable and friendly about things, and I’m not entirely sure what it matters if he’s part of the other protest or not. Also interesting that he refers to his tent as his home. Did he need to be arrested I’m not entirely sure, held out of the way certainly, arrested well other protesters probably would have been for the same behaviour from the video it doesn’t look that unreasonable. The more telling question will be if he’s allowed back or not, I suspect if this arrest results in him being absent from his protest for an extended period of time that the answer will be probably not, which would be a shame.
Of course if he’s not then I quite like the idea of a flash mob of people wearing Brian Haw masks, but that may be just me.
