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Metropolitan Police beat campaigners against state violence
Officers turn batons and tear gas on peaceful protest

LONDON police rang in the new year by battering campaigners with batons and blinding them with tear gas to break up a peaceful protest against state violence.

More than 100 justice activists gathered outside Brixton prison to demonstrate against police brutality and show solidarity with those prisoners wrongly spending holidays in the cells.

But symbolic action descended into carnage when Metropolitan Police officers started physically confronting protesters and deployed CS gas.

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