One of the skinheads, decked out in Ku Klux Klan costume bar the pointed headdress, landed a blow on a police horse before being hauled to the ground, dragged across the road and hoisted into the back of a waiting van. Despite the swift and decisive police response, skirmishes and scuffles were erupting everywhere. Capstick felt an urge to break cover and help out the officers struggling to cope with the situation, but he breathed a sigh of relief as reinforcements arrived on the scene. Police in riot gear jumped out of three wailing riot vans, some of them brandishing camcorders to video the protestors, their pixelated facial profiles doomed to be stored for posterity on an arrest list. About a dozen UAF activists, including the ballerinas, were soon flanked by these riot officers and she
