This must have been awful for people out shopping or having a meal. Watford
, dozens of police and security officers can also be seen trying to defuse the situation.
The footage was taken on Friday, July 21, in various places in Watford including the Atria shopping centre near the cinema and along the High Street.In one of the videos a group of teenagers can be seen falling over as the crowd runs away from one of the shops.In other clips children can be seen being taken into a police van.One woman posted on Facebook what she saw while in the town centre describing large groups of children “causing trouble” and it being “very wrong”.
She explained how the entrance doors to shops had to be “taped off” and a “shopkeeper had to break off from serving to stop kids helping themselves to drink machines, going to walk out and when challenged they say, ‘it’s free’”. She added that some groups of children were “minding their own business”, while others “we encountered were very rude and abusive in their comments when just asked if they could move aside to let people pass”.
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