Shocking footage shows a protester wrestled to the ground by police after setting a fire by the gates of Buckingham Palace
The footage shows the blaze on Monday evening, before an officer approaches the man and pins him to the pavement, shouting: "Get on the floor! Relax, get down and stay down, alright.
A second officer then tells the suspect that he is under arrest. The motivation for lighting the fire is unknown. A Met Police spokesman said: "Shortly after 22.08hrs on Tuesday, 20 December, a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage after a small fire was seen near the Buckingham Palace gates.
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