Police follow student demonstrators

Police follow student demonstrators who, to avoid being controlled by kettling, corralling by police, march freely around the West End of London in an improvised direction. Kettling is a police technique or fad for containing demonstrators and others around, in cordoned off areas, However ultimately the student protesters arrived in Trafalgar Square were the demonstration continued. In Trafalgar Square the police eventually blocked of all the exit roads, mainly to the inconvenience of people not connected with the demonstration the tourists, office workers, National Art Gallery visitors and other members of the public not related to the demonstration who happened to be in the area were prevented from leaving freely by the police cordons. London, 30 November 2010

Date: 30/11/2010

Location: Oxford Street, London, UK

Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff

Police follow student demonstrators

Police follow student demonstrators who, to avoid being controlled by kettling, corralling by police, march freely around the West End of London in an improvised direction. Kettling is a police technique or fad for containing demonstrators and others around, in cordoned off areas, However ultimately the student protesters arrived in Trafalgar Square were the demonstration continued. In Trafalgar Square the police eventually blocked of all the exit roads, mainly to the inconvenience of people not connected with the demonstration the tourists, office workers, National Art Gallery visitors and other members of the public not related to the demonstration who happened to be in the area were prevented from leaving freely by the police cordons. London, 30 November 2010

Date: 30/11/2010

Location: Oxford Street, London, UK

Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff