Fair comment KKOB but these are avoidable disturbances, created by the retail sector for profit.The retailers
have been boasting about how many billions they will take on Black Friday, this weekend and the run up to
Christmas.They should factor in the cost of crowd control or they should be banned from holding these events.
The police have the powers to apply to get them banned on public disorder or safety grounds.
I can remember lots of local kids parades, boy scouts parades, marches ect that were cancelled because they
couldn't afford to pay for police escorts and insurance costs and on Health & Safety grounds.