as Greater Manchester struggles with soaring coronavirus cases.Paul Boys said he's been asked to attend a police station after police were forced to disperse crowds on Sunday afternoon, which the region's top cop described as 'utterly ridiculous'.Greater Manchester Police, who tonight say they have handed the event's organiser a £10,000 fine, said as many as 600 people attended the 'Rise Up Manchester' rally.
Mr Boys claims it was 'thousands'.Identifying himself as the organiser in a YouTube video, Mr Boys claimed he had been told by GMP he had permission to 'go ahead' with the protest earlier in the week.Speaking to the Manchester Evening News , he claimed he had been 'given the go-ahead by [a] police liaison officer' and that he had.
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