Why do far right protesters Attack the police?

I suspect that they just get fired up and will attack anyone/anything that appears to be getting in their way.

Maybe some of them have been in trouble with the police before, they do seem somewhat aggressive.

They are far right. It’s what the far right does. Always have.

The police are often between a rock and a hard place during these demonstrations - from whatever political standpoint. If they come down too hard, they can sometimes escalate the situation and face accusations of brutality; but if they stand back and leave things to develop, this often reduces the violence, but leaves them open to accusations of condoning the cause or allowing too much leeway, e.g. the Colston statue demonstration (which I think they got right).

The police are often seen as the enemy when they are trying to control a demonstration, and it does not matter what the political affiliation of the marchers is.

So why are the far left attacking veterans with bottles and flares in Newcastle at the moment.

Both of the fars are capable of thuggery, to not acknowledge this is an act of political blindness

Because they are hate filled idiots and don’t have the brains to do anything other than strut their hate filled Bodies into fighting Anyone or anything with a different thought to themselves
ilovecheese’ are you always a lady of understatement *they do seem somewhat agressive so would you call a fighting tiger a little bit naughty ???

Far right protesters are mindless thugs. That's why they will attack the police or anyone else who gets in their way.

Who are the far left gg13

Very funny WWMK2 .....why can you not admit that the far left is as bad as the far right.

So are the far-left football thugs too Varian. Labour used to send them to rallies etc.
The far-right are like a red rag to a bull towards the police because they know that police are racists but won't own up to it. Stands to sense when so many blacks are arrested as opposed to white, so what would you think ?

No gg13 I wasn’t trying to be funny. I’m trying to establish which far left group Is attacking veterans in Newcastle

Not a harmonious mixture I'd have said.

I can absolutely admit the far left thugs are as bad as the far right, but at the moment you haven’t said who they are.

I cannot remember anyone pushing to find the identity of the far left thugs last weekend throwing bricks and bicycles at police horses?

As GrannyGravy13 has just stated, it was not the far right who were throwing missiles and bicycles at horses.

well i guess they are the obverse of old hippies, these are the skin-heads of yesteryear, and every non-white person feared the skin-heads, with good reason.
so presumably this lot take exception to the very title, Black Lives Matter, (as some on here do, but i put that down to ignorance rather than out and out racism,) and so they want to march protest, cause a ruckus and resent the police stopping them from getting at BLM, esp the black ones.

Not far left, not far right, let's not credit them with the intelligence to understand a political stance, they're just mindless thugs, brainless hooligans, idiots.

I always think of the range of political views as an almost closed circle. At the top we have the far right and left. They are, in fact, very similar - with their extreme views and inclination towards violence.

At the bottom of the circle are the majority, the 'middles' who tend to lean slightly to the right or left.

If you are talking about the BLM last week gg13 they aren’t the far left. They are a protest group no political affiliation.

There is a difference.

I'd like to know what these people would do if their son/daughter want to be a policeman/woman when they get old enough? Would they say they can't? My son wanted to be a policeman to help people and have a good career just like nurses and firemen do, there is always a bad egg in every basket. I am so upset by what is going on,how many of these people were clapping for them just the other weeks gone by?
I am very proud of my son and his professional job.

I mean, this is now a very daft argument about which "side" has the most arseholes on it (oh shh, I could have used a worse word). It doesn't matter, policies and good causes matter. Bad people are gonna do bad things and no bad people are not responsible for them.

That should say non bad people are not responsible for them.

WWMK2 there have been far left activists identified wearing BLM shirts last week. One was standing next to the actor who gave an excellent speech.

I think anyone not recognising that there are violent thugs on either side is being naive.

Violence in any form will not solve anything anywhere.

We have police officers in our extended family and they should not be subjected to violence or abuse!!!