A JUNIOR paramedic was "too traumatised" to take on another shift after being "spat on" by Rangers fans in George Square.
Darren told Radio Clyde News today how he was working on Saturday as Light Blues supporters' title celebrations descended into chaos over the weekend.
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The paramedic slammed "knuckle draggers" who he said were hurling bigoted slurs at frontline workers.
He said: "It was the first time I had ever been on something of that scale.
▶️ "To be treated like that when in the middle of a global pandemic when we're frontline workers....there's no words we can use for it"
— Radio Clyde News (@RadioClydeNews) May 18, 2021
Darren called @ClydeSSB to describe his experience as a paramedic in George Square on Saturday pic.twitter.com/meV1JgkkFm
"I had a new start with me of four months in the job. She was due to be back out again on Sunday and basically, how traumatised she was, she couldn't commit to the shift.
"We were spat on. The sectarian language we endured."
While police enforced a dispersal command to fans later in the night and described the gathering as "largely peaceful" until later on, Darren claimed he was facing attacks from fans "from the moment Rangers fans arrived in George Square, right through to about half-past one in the morning".
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He added: "Even to the degree the colour of our uniform was getting brought up, using the F word to describe - in a religious connotation - what we were.
"These are the types of knuckle-draggers you're having to deal with. To be treated like that, in the middle of a global pandemic, when we're frontline workers, to have to stand and endure that level of abuse, to witness the police having bottles thrown at them, for at least four hours solid, there are just no words you can use for it."
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