Operation Solstice ... When ACPO had another meeting in early 1985, it was resolved to obtain a High Court Injunction preventing the annual gathering at Stonehenge. This was the legal ‘device’ to be used to justify the attack at the “Battle of the Beanfield” on the 1st June in Hampshire. Well it wasn’t a battle really.....It was an ambush!12 The scenes there were recorded by media, including myself, that had evaded the police blockade. The story was international news. `Dixon of Dock Green’ type policing was dead. That which Britain was noted for had now changed to para-military operations against minority groups. Kim Sabido, a reporter used to visiting the worlds `hot spots’, did an emotional pieceto-camera for ITN as he described the worst police violence that he had ever seen: “What we - the ITN camera crew and myself as a
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