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<p> <p>s one who watched both Professor Robert Bartlett's 'Normans' and</p> <p>Dan Snow's 'Norman Walks', let me say how much I enjoy the</p> <p>BBC's sense of history and these two items in particular. But can</p> <p>the authors see the wood for the trees?</p> </p>

<p>Basically the top cop says that the arests were indeed preemptive, and that had they not been done more rioting would have occured. When challenged for any evidence of this he mentions some windows smashed at a different time, and place. He then denies the numerous reports that people were help without water and access to toilets, although he recognises they were kept in cages.</p>