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The focus of the G20 protests was the G20 summit held in London on 2 April 2009. Those involved in the protests held on 1 and 2 April came from a wide variety of groups with diverse agendas that included economic policy, the operations of the banking system and bankers’ pay and bonuses, climate change and the War on Terror. The banner of ‘anti-capitalism’ served as an umbrella under which these groups could coordinate a protest. On 1 April, there were ten separate protests over seven sites in London. In excess of 5,500 Metropolitan Police officers were deployed on 1 April and 2,800 on 2 April. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) estimated the cost of the G20 event as £7.5 million (HMIC, 2009a: 22).
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Joyce, P., Wain, N. (2014). G. In: Palgrave Dictionary of Public Order Policing, Protest and Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270085_7
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