Anti-royal protesters consider legal action over Coronation arrests
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He said he did not accept the apology and would take legal action after no charges were brought against him.Mr Smith said a chief inspector and two other officers visited his Reading home on Monday evening to issue the apology."I said for the record I won't accept the apology. We have a lot of questions to answer and we will be taking action.
"We regret that those six people arrested were unable to join the wider group of protesters in Trafalgar Square and elsewhere on the procession route," a statement continued. He said he had been held for 16 hours on the morning of the Coronation after being stopped by officers who suspected him and group members of carrying "lock on" devices to tie themselves to inanimate objects."If they did have intelligence their intelligence officers are either lying or incompetent because there was never any discussion, thought, email, message, anything that suggested any intent to do anything disruptive.
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