Black Friday statement 1

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Miss C. Richardson’s Complaint.

At Downing Street, while outside the second police cordon in Whitehall, I was standing looking on at the police battering the women about, when a policeman ordered me away ……… I was again in a clearing alone …….. Inside the cordon there were throngs of men and boys. I said “Why do you pick me out? Why not send those men and boys away? He replied “Those boys are all right, it is you I am after”. He made a leap, clutched me by the throat and the next instant the back of my head crashed on the pavement. I heard a woman’s voice scream “Dont [sic] kill her”, and I was afterwards told by a woman who came to my aid that a man exclaimed “There is the first death”. She told me that the policeman had flung me right in front of a motor car and that the left wheel touched my dress. The number of the policeman was 503.E. ….. I saw three other women flung to the pavement, one with a heavy policeman on top of her. I saw a policeman grab women by the collars, shake them and fling them aside like rats. I saw them take women up and fling them on the crowd as many logs on a wood pile …… The marks of the four fingers of the first mentioned policeman did not leave my arm for two weeks.