Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021

[SheilaNaGig]

A pal of mine who drives a black cab tells me it's getting rough up Town.

Have I missed a thread about today's mass protests or is Urban not covering it?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Telegraph reporting stuff from outside Downing Street.

London Black Lives Matter protest: 13 people arrested outside Downing Street

Thirteen people have been arrested as protests in London as part of the Black Lives Matter movement turned violent, with people hurling objects at police officers outside Downing Street.

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Treacle Toes]

I've only seen a scuffle and 2 arrests outside downing street.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Met police reporting a driver arrested after hitting pedestrains around Sloane Square. Rumours that he mounted the pavement. Nothing confirmed. No evidence it's related.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Nothing on the BlacklivesmatterUK hashtag of anything kicking off in Traf Sq.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Nothing on the BlacklivesmatterUK hashtag of anything kicking off in Traf Sq.

So my pal is being billy big bollocks then.

Sorry Urban. Nothing to see here, move along.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Although I have to say I'm really surprised there isn't a thread dedicated to the UK protests in support of the US uprising.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Not sure what your pal is seeing...defo lots of people raging against White Supremacy and I am sure he can feel the tension. Just can't see anything online that suggests it's actually kicking off?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Not sure what your pal is seeing...defo lots of people raging against White Supremacy and I am sure he can feel the tension. Just can't see anything online that suggests it's actually kicking off?

Me either, hence this thread.

My pal's gone quiet. He made the hit and run post on Facebook. I've asked him for more, nothing so far. It's quite possible he's mistaken. He's quite excitable.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

How do I link to a Tweet thing?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Rutita1

He says he was driving past Trafalgar Square and saw "the hail of bottles". So not an actual riot, then.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Rutita1

He says he was driving past Trafalgar Square and saw "the hail of bottles". So not an actual riot, then.

Okay, he might be right, just can't see anything online to support that.

 

[Treacle Toes]

How do I link to a Tweet thing?

That is the incident where two arrests were made outside Downing street mentioned above. The crowd reacted after a guy was snatched from the crowd following a heated in your face thing with an officer is what's being posted elsewhere.

 

[platinumsage]

Sky news helicopter live over Whitehall now, a wee bit of argy bargy on King Charles Street by the Foreign Office:

 

[platinumsage]

More stuff going on on Whitehall itself, their reporter mentioned missiles and injured people on the ground but was cut off so they could go to a world weather report.

 

[Sprocket.]

No doubt Johnson will be going walkabout shortly, tear gassing the crowds as he slithers towards the nearest church to emulate his buddy.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Guessing we will be seeing a lot of "well of course peaceful protests are okay but once the hooligan element gets involved what else can the police do"

 

[platinumsage]

 

[cracklivesmata]

Best thing to do now would be to disperse the crowds so they can go and have a block party on some scuffy north London estate until 4 am. You know all up close and personal. Keeping people awake all night, stopping the spread of the virus.

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[editor]

Best thing to do now would be to disperse the crowds so they can go and have a block party on some scuffy north London estate until 4 am. You know all up close and personal. Keeping people awake all night, stopping the spread of the virus.

Even better if you just fucked off.

 

[chilango]

Best thing to do now would be to disperse the crowds so they can go and have a block party on some scuffy north London estate until 4 am. You know all up close and personal. Keeping people awake all night, stopping the spread of the virus.

Fuck off.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[Treacle Toes]

Best thing to do now would be to disperse the crowds so they can go and have a block party on some scuffy north London estate until 4 am. You know all up close and personal. Keeping people awake all night, stopping the spread of the virus.

Fuck off.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Angle on the Downing street scuffle

 

[platinumsage]

 

[Brainaddict]

Not surprised things are kicking off here. I'm sure it's not just solidarity with the US. The policing of the lockdown has been as racist as you would expect anytime you give police vague and extensive new powers. So much dodginess going on that the whole Labour establishment in my area came out with a statement saying the police needed to rein it in.

 

[editor]

Angle on the Downing street scuffle

Darren of Plymouth is a right wing cunt.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Darren of Plymouth is a right wing cunt.

I had no idea who he is tbh and certainly don't follow him...I linked to the vid for the vid iyswim