AIBU to think this is unfair policing?

[TooMuchYarn]

These two stories are one underneath the other in my BBC news feed-

BBC News - NHS pay-rise demo organiser fined £10,000 in Manchester
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-56312817

BBC News - Celebrating Rangers fans urged to return home after Premiership win
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56312051

Both are obviously wrong and illegal. But the 10,000 pound fine for the nhs woman for organising a protest which 40 people attended, seems vastly disproportionate to just telling what looks like huge crowds of football fans to go home. No fines mentioned, a 'small number' of arrests. It just looks like it was easier to come down hard on the NHS people than on the football fans, and thats so unfair.

You said it yourself - it was illegal so I'm not sure what's unfair about it. You may be in support of the reason for the gathering but that doesn't change the fact.

Organising a gathering is currently illegal. If someone had organised the football fans to gather, they would have been fined as well.

Scotland has different policies and laws from England.

I think the situations required a differing approach. A large group of people who have potentially been drinking need to be managed differently than a smaller group of people who are unlikely to have been drinking and should therefore be more easily reasoned with. They're also in different countries who take a slightly different approach to policing and have a different legal system.

Both situations shouldn't have occurred at all and there should have been no reason for police involvement either way.

Protesting is not currently legal iirc.
I doubt it was the same force policing these events...

There's a difference between organising an illegal activity and a large number of people doing something spontaneously.