"The Battle of the Beanfield"

I found this video very interesting, because it portrays one of the darkest days in the history of UK - the day of "The Battle of the Beanfield". This took place on June 1 1985 at Wiltshire, England.

Since 1974 that new age travellers, ravers and festival goers gather to celebrate the Summer Solstice in the Stonehenge Free Festival at Stonehenge. After a decade the English authorities decided that the festival could not take place at Stonehenge anymore, under the excuse that it was English heritage. The Wiltshire police had already prevented the travellers that they would not be able to set up the festival at Stonehenge anymore, but they insisted and gathered their vehicles. They were about to cross the Wiltshire and Hampshire border, when several police vehicles stopped them. Some travellers tried to run away through a bean field, but then tons of police vehicles showed up and attacked them, smashing windows and beating people on the head with truncheons. Some had serious injuries. Most of the travellers' trucks and buses suffered large damage and some were completely burnt. At the end of the day almost all travellers were arrested and their homes destroyed. The UK had never seen such brutal treatment by the police.