Complex sentence: Many of the arrested suffragettes reported being assaulted and manhandled by the police.this was not the first documented use of police force against suffragettes who had demonstrated brutality and violence towards women throughout the Suffragettes campaign for votes for women's suffrage.
Split into simpler sentences: Many of the arrested suffragettes reported being assaulted and manhandled by the police. This was not the first documented use of police force against suffragettes who had demonstrated brutality and violence towards women throughout the Suffragettes campaign for votes for women's suffrage.