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Met Police kettles disabled anti-cuts activist
Cops target people fighting for lifeline independent living fund

SEVERELY disabled activists were brutally attacked by police officers this weekend after occupying Westminster Abbey grounds in their fight to save the independent living fund.

Hundreds of supporters of Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC), UK Uncut and Occupy London took over the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Saturday.

But while many thought the Church of England-owned space would welcome the protesters, instead the police were called in to forcibly remove everyone.

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