Cop beaten with sledgehammer as Palestine Action raided facility with whips, paintball gun and an axe

A police officer suffered spinal injuries after she was hit with a sledgehammer by a gang of Palestine Action activists who had bulldozed their way into a defence factory. Wearing red and black jumpsuits and armed with whips, fireworks, an axe and a paintball gun, the protesters crashed through a gate Elbit Systems UK in Patchway, Bristol in an old prison van. The ‘black team’ overwhelmed a security official who tried to fight them off with his umbrella before the…