Via an academic website 'The Conversation' and with a long title, a different view of recent events in Catalonia:
Violent scenes in Catalan referendum were not the return of Spain’s Francoist police
The author adds, sympathetically:
But it did not make much sense to send 10,000 police to stop two million protesters and oversee 4,000 polling stations – a useless and impossible task that could only inflame the situation and discredit the police.
Link:https://theconversation.com/violent-...-police-85073?