there were no smashed windows at F&M

that line you keep repeating refers to the Ritz, banks and F&M. The windows were smashed at the other two - not F&M.

I only know this because I was following some twitter accounts of the protestors at F&M that day, which posted lots of pictures of what was going on there. The protestors didn't smash windows - which was why the charges brought were about trespass, not damage.

Of course, you may simply respond by reposting that one sentence from a newspaper article, but it doesn't make it true. (And as I mentioned, the first article you posted actually pointed out that the protests at F&M were non-violent).

(F&M's calculation of the cost of the protest was mostly about lost trade, fwiw.)

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Aug 29, 15:23:57