Sancho those won’t be the peaceful protesters that were arrested. Those will be undercover Police operatives that staged events.
When I worked in central London and Police first did the ‘unjust kettling’.
I was trapped in work for hours because of the violent rioting. The Police got us out and over the hours that followed the rioters were penned in and kettled. I **** thought justice has been done. Funny as they’d done their days protesting and now wanted to go home to their tea but now it was them inconvenienced.
BTW- innocents caught in that particular kettling? No, the Police told us there was a breakaway violent section that had smashed up Topshop/Regents st etc and they’d been caught/contained. So the media falsely reported that bit.
The Police that got us out looked scared, exhausted and shot.