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An 81-year-old man has been charged following protests in Nottingham metropolis centre earlier this month.
Rival teams have been separated by officers through the demonstrations close to Old Market Square on 3 August.
Keith Edwards, of Kinglake Place, The Meadows, Nottingham, has been charged with utilizing threatening, abusive or insulting phrases or behaviour with intent to trigger worry of or provoke illegal violence.
He has been launched on bail and is because of seem at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on 6 September.
Another man was fined for shouting aggressively for as much as two hours whereas drunk throughout demonstrations on the identical day.
Anthony Chadwick, 36, was caught on video throughout an incident in Queen Street, which confirmed him saying “I’m going to knock you out” whereas bare-chested.
Chadwick, of Nuthall Road in Leen Valley, Nottinghamshire, pleaded responsible at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court to utilizing threatening or abusive phrases or behaviour.
The courtroom heard Chadwick didn’t plan to participate within the protest however was “riled up” after a water bottle hit his head.
Fining the defendant £365 on Thursday, District Judge Sunil Khanna stated: “Thankfully not one of the others round you reacted to your drunken behaviour.
“In the longer term, please don’t get entangled in issues you aren’t desirous about.”
Nottinghamshire Police stated the demonstrations remained “largely peaceable” and had warned some other dysfunction can be met with a “strong response”.
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