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Video footage shows Greater Manchester Police forcing Gypsy and Traveller children onto a train
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VIDEO footage circulated on social media at the weekend showed Greater Manchester Police (GMP) forcing Gypsy and Traveller children out of the city centre and onto a train.
In one video, a distressed young man shouted: “I don’t know where I’m going!” as a row of police lined the platform and forced them onto a carriage.
One girl, 13 and from Doncaster — ended up more than 100 miles away from Manchester in Grimsby, her mother reported.
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