'The actions of the officer will be looked at in the wider context of this incident.ДЄ spokesman for the Met said the actions of the officer would be looked at in the wider context of the afternoon's incident and said the veteran (pictured) had been asked to wait until the Cenotaph was reopened to the public prior to the incident The barricade was later removed after official ceremonial proceedings had been completed and the public were allowed to approach the Cenotaph which was still being guarded by a handful of officers.ДЄ spokesman for the Met Police said: 'Police are aware of a video circulating online which shows an officer using force after a man had tried to enter a restricted area in Whitehall SW1. Millions of people across the UK instead privately paid their respects from home, while others did head to their local war memorials for socially-distanced ceremonies.ДЄt the Cenotaph, around 10,000 veterans would normally pay their respects, but this year there were just 26 because of the risks presented by Covid-19. While the Queen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other members of Government and the Royal family held a private service at the Cenotaph this morning, the public were unable to attend because of lockdown restrictions imposed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. 'And yet the state, the state, the state tells us that we cannot!' The UK has today confirmed a further 20,572 positive Covid tests, a drop of 11.5 per cent on last Sunday's total 'We've come here to respect our friends, brothers in arms and also the fallen that we didn't even know. 'I didn't come here for a fight - I've done enough of that in the past - and no one else did. In the video, the piper was filmed shouting at the police, saying: 'We have the workers of state barricading us from showing our respects for our fallen comrades. The piper's reference to a speech down the road appears to be a reference to an earlier video shared on Twitter. Other bystanders can be heard urging the police to 'take a knee for the fallen' and yelling 'this is Germany' in apparent outrage at the incident. The unidentified uniformed piper says: 'I tried in my speech down the road to support the Metropolitan Police - I did. Members of the crowd began shouting at the officer calling him 'a disgrace' and 'disgusting' before the man who was shoved to the ground begins addressing the small crowd. The footage shows one officer shove the piper away which causes him to stumble backwards before he falls to the floor

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