Footage showed dozens of uniformed police officers ushering young people onto carriages at Victoria station
Greater Manchester Police have defended the use of a dispersal order in Manchester city centre after footage shared on social showed scores of young people - many understood to be from traveller communities - being escorted onto trains heading out of town.
It's ridiculous and embarrassing when you are a traveller. They've turned up to meet their cousins and do a bit of girlie shopping. This is not the way to treat the travelling community." "They never got past the train station. There were kids being put on trains and they had no idea where they were going. You can here them on the videos saying 'where are we going?' They're only young people... kids."
"We have made two arrests while enforcing the dispersal order – a man and a teenage boy separate incidents. Both were at Exchange Square and on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker. The first one was hours ago. The second, more recently, involved officers breaking up a group of youth fighting and were assaulted. This is the second group of youths fighting they've broken up this afternoon.
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