The rebels are truncheoned by the Megaladon policemen.
Mary Fildes, who was on the platform, was truncheoned by special constables when she refused to let go of the flag she was carrying.
When television news that night showed one man being repeatedly truncheoned by a police officer, it treated it as an isolated instance.
Television footage and photographs at Orgreave showed miners being beaten with truncheons by police, some in riot gear and some on horses, who claimed they were attacked first by the miners picketing the plant.
My generation was forged by protests and police truncheons, by the hopes generated not only by the Prague Spring, but also by the Polish student movement that March, the Paris events of May, and the first signs of Russian democracy voiced in the early books of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn.
A man once offered to sell me a DVD in a bar and I said no because I did not want to be arrested and hit with truncheons by the police.
A man once offered to sell me a £2 DVD in a pub and I said no because I did not want to be arrested and hit with truncheons by the police.
They were supported by mounted police also wielding truncheons, and by police with dogs.
But late in the evening a police charge with truncheons, accompanied by barrages of tear-gas, volleys of birdshot, plastic bullets and percussion rounds, cleared the square.
My colleague Ben Mosley [a Labour council candidate] was hit by a truncheon and I was shoved out of the way by a policeman at one stage.
