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TRAVEL campaigners slammed the police and rail bosses yesterday following a brutal crackdown on Yorkshire’s “freedom riders.”
British Transport Police pushed disabled passengers to the ground and arrested two pensioners in their heavy-handed bid to break up a peaceful Monday rally at Sheffield station.
A video quickly went viral showing five officers restraining pensioner Tony Nuttall and marching him around the platform, while police also knocked over a blind woman and one protester had to be taken to hospital after collapsing.
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JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
