Come and wet this truncheon

Here's some old school:
Still makes my blood boil:
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Early days back then:

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Whilst I'm on the theme, another object lesson from the time in ridiculously biased reporting:
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This one, I first saw many years ago. The footage was provided to the travellers by a Channel 4 film crew who were making a schools programme about travelling lifestyle, some 7 or 8 years after the beanfield. There's actually longer footage around than this, I used to have a tape some 40 or 50 minutes long. The reporter had to retake his to-camera piece several times, each time toning it down, until it could be sanitised enough for broadcast. I believe he left journalism after this event. Here's his original - with the comment that it's some of the most brutal police behaviour in Britain in a long time.
Unfortunately, that wasn't true. This particular brutality was the specialty of the cops back then. I don't know what they're like now, but back in the day, it was par for the course. the Beanfield, of course, remains a particularly nasty example. Because of this footage having surfaced, it's also well documented just how brutish it was.