The marchers were halted for half an hour or so by the police, less than a mile from the bridge. By now, hundreds of sympathisers had joined the marchers, who were accompanied by around eighty policemen. Farrell, the principal organiser, was given the impression by the police that there would be some stoning ahead, but that ‘…it was only going to be a very minor sort of a skirmish’. He says now: ‘I’ve always wondered since then whether the hold-up… was so that the attackers could get better organised before we arrived because we were definitely led into an ambush by the police.’ Bernadette
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