The police who arrested an Edinburgh student for ‘breaching the peace’ as she protested a ceremony for King Charles III feared they would be a ‘laughing stock’ as a result, she has claimed.
Cops removed Mariángela, 22, who did not wish to give her last name, from the crowd outside St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on Sunday, after she held up a sign that read: “Fuck imperialism. Abolish monarchy.”
She told openDemocracy the officers had initially suggested she would be released – but then said to her that they had been given orders by a superior to arrest her. She alleges she later overheard the officers express doubts over whether the arrest was lawful, and worrying that they would be laughed at by colleagues for taking her into custody.
