Oh yes, police officers with their service numbers removed is a sign that there's going to be a fight and it's time to get the hell out of there. I remember somebody pointing this out to me at a hunting demonstration in Parliament Square and we absolutely did get the hell out of there (just in time). If there had been no police there it would have been a polite gathering, violence was entirely initiated and provoked by the police. The irony being that hunting people would generally regard themselves as being more on the side of the police than not, and there was none of the rent-a-crowd mob of Marxists there (shouting Fascist **** at both the police and those who hunt!)
However that is very different from asserting that masked and un-uniformed police officers are pushing protestors into the police lines. I know they were not your words but when you quoted them you said you'd mentioned these people yesterday.
">> Watching the scene on the news last night, there seemed to be an awful lot
>> of blokes with faces covered up pushing and shoving women into the police lines."
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