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Andy Bennett is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey and previously worked with the Rockmobil project in Frankfurt. He is author of Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place (2000) and co-editor of Guitar Cultures (2001). ...

Police warns of insufficient security" at Greta Thunberg protest

Feb 16,2020 9:03 am

Greta Thunberg tweeted over the weekend, you would be in The City , the youth-protest -

police are warning parents in Bristol to protest Greta Thunberg has grown due to the link is "so big," it is unlikely that the usual security measures will be appropriate.

Avon and Somerset Police say they expect thousands of people on the Bristol-youth-Strike 4 climate on the College Green to listen to on Friday, the 17-year-old environmental activist to speak.

The Force said there was "potential for trips, slips, falls, and contusions".

the parents and caregivers were asked to bring their own security arrangements.

The Swedish Climate Change activist tweeted over the weekend, you would be in The City , the youth-protest.

But in a letter to the parents of school-age children, Supt Andy Bennett said the violence was "able to accurately predict how big this event is going to be."

"Social Media is viral, went, with interest, which leads me To Believe that there are thousands of people," he wrote.

"We have confirmation of people travel from all over the United Kingdom, with car, bus and train.

"I said to myself, in Hamburg, about 60,000 came to see Greta speak. While I'm not suggesting it is So Large , you can see the scale of the potential participation. "

The First school strike in Bristol took place in February last year

He said, The Event was announced, promising areas suitable for both elementary school students and disabled people, but as a "large-scale Bio" event, he said, would be "probably impossible."

"In terms of the large numbers of people, and are dynamic in nature and there is the potential for trips, slips, falls, and bruises," he said of the parents.

"The Event has become So Large that the usual checks, bouncers and security measures are regularly in place are unlikely to be scaled up sufficiently. "

He added, Park Street and the City Centre would also be closed to try", the risks associated with an amount too large for the College Green Open Space ".

According to one of the protest organizers, Greta had originally planned to visit London, but, as the area for the planned protest in the capital was too small organisers Bristol had advised instead.

Artist Jody Thomas, painted a mural of Ms Thunberg in Bristol in the last year

Two years ago, the teenage activist, started missing classes on most Fridays to protest in front of the Swedish Parliament Building , in, as it turned out, the beginning of a huge environmental movement.

she was a leading voice for Climate Change , inspiring millions of students to protests around The World .



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Source of news: bbc.com

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