Terrible scenes of police brutality at Barton Moss: Salford Star editor, Stephen Kingston, says… As a journalist you try and remain neutral but when you see totally violent and out of control policing you have to speak up. I saw one of the arresting officers repeatedly punch Vanda in the stomach. I went around to the other side of the fence to which the police had her pinned and saw blood dripping from her face and absolute fear in her eyes. She was screaming while an officer had his hands around her neck. When Vanda was previously arrested the road was sealed off and our reports had to rely on video footage and photographs. This I saw with my own eyes. The amazing thing is that officers did this in the full glare of the media which was there to photograph Bez. Its almost like they are trying to send a message out that `If you come to a peaceful protest at Barton Moss you too can expect this treatment.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:29:40 +0000