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"They were certainly confused about what they were doing and why," Mr Smith said.
"It feels to me like an unfortunate set of circumstances where he's had a very longstanding relationship with the Met's public order planning team and then a different set of officers find him with objects - and this new legislation stipulates objects - that they thought could be used to lock on and arrest him," he said.
As well as locking on offences, it criminalises tunnelling - used by HS2 protesters - and"going equipped to tunnel". "Before you could walk behind someone with a lock they were clearly going to use to lock on, but until they did it you had no power to stop and search them."Which old laws were used on the day?
Others were arrested for"conspiracy to cause a public nuisance", which comes under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act. That legislation makes it illegal to"create a risk of or cause serious harm to the public" or"obstruct the public".
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