Police behaviour at the coronation has been branded an 'attack on democracy'; here's what happened when protesters joined royalists on the procession route.
into St James's Park to be searched by Welsh police officers, outnumbering them roughly two-to-one.
Protester Harvey Woolf said:"I wasn't very happy about the searches, I think we had been targeted because they didn't want our message to get out." The 66-year-old said police told him the protesters were suspected of carrying paint, but an officer told Sky News they led the Republic members away to avoid a"hostile environment" created by the crowds.Royal supporters had booed and shouted"shame on you" when the protesters were initially marched away from the Mall.
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