A student who made a documentary of the Reclaim the Streets demonstration in 2002 has told a jury he thought protesters believed they were being playful when they surrounded and rocked a Garda car.
Mr Conor Henfey, whose video footage is being used in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial of Garda Paul Daly and Garda Fergus Hogan, said he saw an unmarked Farda car drive into the middle of the crowd of protesters at Burgh Quay.
The DCU student said they sat down in front of the car and some surrounded it but Mr Henfey claimed there was nothing confrontational in their actions.
Gda Daly and Gda Hogan, who are both attached to Pearse Street Garda Station, have pleaded not guilty to assault causing harm to Mr Emmet Bunting on May 6th, 2002.
Sergeant Mark Kelly, also of Pearse Street Garda Station, told Mr Tom O'Connell SC, prosecuting, that he drove Gda Hogan to hospital that evening for treatment for a hand injury.
He denied a suggestion by Mr O'Connell that earlier he had driven his patrol car into the crowd on Burgh Quay. He said he had driven around a few people but stopped the car when the crowd got too thick and this was when his car was surrounded.
Sgt Kelly agreed said he believed the protesters were intending to overturn the car and he called for backup.