Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021

[smokedout]

An old pirate radio DJ im facebook friends has posted that "mare street has been smashed up"
now i always liked this DJ but since following him on facebook turns out he's a nationalist shitposting dick
can anyone confirm whats going on?

As it happens I walked down Mare Street about 2pm today and there was no sign of anything going on. Was in the area all afternoon and didn't hear any sirens or a helicopter.

 

[Sue]

As it happens I walked down Mare Street about 2pm today and there was no sign of anything going on. Was in the area all afternoon and didn't hear any sirens or a helicopter.

Yeah, I've been in all day and it's been very quiet.

 

[ska invita]

As it happens I walked down Mare Street about 2pm today and there was no sign of anything going on. Was in the area all afternoon and didn't hear any sirens or a helicopter.

this was posted an hour ago

 

[smokedout]

okay, I left about 6, still cant see anything on twitter about it

 

[Sue]

this was posted an hour ago

Sounds like bollocks tbh. I'd go and have a look but I've just finished work and settled down with a drink so...

 

[ska invita]

I'd go and have a look but I've just finished work and settled down with a drink so...

doesnt exactly sound like a warzone

 

[klang]

doesnt exactly sound like a warzone

sorry for the confusion, was just doing a dub mix

 

[Numbers]

sorry for the confusion, was just doing a dub mix

Confusion Dub in a Warzone

 

[Mation]

I like how it's described as a protester and police officer clash.

e2a: actually moved from rolleyes to fuck this. This is not a clash and what the fuck with putting Black Lives Matter in quotes.

I'd really appreciate spoiler tags for this and images like it. Having to tread very carefully around my mental health atm. I'm sure it's not just me.

 

[Pickman's model]

Picture 1 in this set of images from Reuters from London protest yesterday shows a police with his hand round a protesters throat in strangulation mode- apparently on Downing St. Police number visible - U 3234. Picture 10 appears to show same police and protester.

Yeh he's a cuntstable in 3tsg, working out of Chadwell heath

 

[quimcunx]

I'd really appreciate spoiler tags for this and images like it. Having to tread very carefully around my mental health atm. I'm sure it's not just me.

Done now. Sorry it was too late for you.

 

[smokedout]

Proper kicking off in London now. Am not there just watching the live feed here: Is America burning? (2020)

Really tempted to jump on the tube tho.

 

[editor]

*thread title updated

New feed here

 

[cupid_stunt]

Bit sad, the cops seemed to have tried hard to keep it low key, I was surprised TBH to see the thin blue line outside Downing Street, just in normal uniforms, then the bottles & other objects came raining down on them, and they were pulled back & replaced with others in protective clothing & helmets, followed by mounted cops & others in full riot gear turning-up.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Bit sad, the cops seemed to have tried hard to keep it low key, I was surprised TBH to see the thin blue line outside Downing Street, just in normal uniforms, then the bottles & other objects came raining down on them, and they were pulled back & replaced with others in protective clothing & helmets, followed by mounted cops & others in full riot gear turning-up.

Well the latter type of cops wouldn't be there unless they were expected to be used - they wouldn't lead with them. Priti Patel already made a statement that the protestors shouldn't be there so the political instructions have been clear I guess. For the sake of the country's health of course

The home secretary, Priti Patel, said on Saturday that although she understood the right to protest the UK was in the midst of a pandemic.

“I’d say to those that want to protest: please don’t,” she said, echoing the health secretary, Matt Hancock. “The regulations are very clear in terms of gatherings and mass gatherings in particular. We must put public health first at this particular time.”

UK anti-racism protesters defy calls to avoid mass gatherings

 

[Badgers]

Bit sad, the cops seemed to have tried hard to keep it low key, I was surprised TBH to see the thin blue line outside Downing Street, just in normal uniforms, then the bottles & other objects came raining down on them, and they were pulled back & replaced with others in protective clothing & helmets, followed by mounted cops & others in full riot gear turning-up.

To be fair it is very hard to control one's anger at the state and the 'thin blue line' given their vicious and violent disregard for us. If they were not so separate from society and tooled up then things would be a lot worse for them.

 

[YouSir]

Aside from a few bottles being thrown has anything actually happened? Remember the other day when people started on about looting and rioting but it was just some scuffles.

 

[salem]

Well it seems like everyone has been getting excited about the idea of a bit of a ruck (e.g this thread title FFS). The tories must be delighted to have something to take the heat off them over Covid.

 

[smokedout]

Aside from a few bottles being thrown has anything actually happened? Remember the other day when people started on about looting and rioting but it was just some scuffles.

Hard to see from the feed, looked like scuffles and a few missiles in the air but nothing that significant until they sent horses in and it went nuts for a while. One copper came off his horse, fell off rather than dismounted I think. Looks like theres a kettle in place now, hard to tell how many people theyve got trapped and how many are still outside.

It's probably not fair to comment just from watching the feed, but I've been on loads of protests and I don't think I have ever seen horses deployed that aggresively so early into what seemed pretty minor disorder. I guess we can only speculate why that happened today. Fucking racist cunts.

 

[salem]

 

[Badgers]

Aside from a few bottles being thrown has anything actually happened? Remember the other day when people started on about looting and rioting but it was just some scuffles.

Fucking wankers. Would not last 5 minutes at Reading Festival.

 

[YouSir]

Well it seems like everyone has been getting excited about the idea of a bit of a ruck (e.g this thread title FFS). The tories must be delighted to have something to take the heat off them.

Aye, and it's expected of the right, any protest will be evil anarchists attacking poor defenceless police to them. Wish 'our' side weren't so quick to feed into the fantasy though.

 

[killer b]

attacking the police is right and good though.

 

[platinumsage]

It's probably not fair to comment just from watching the feed, but I've been on loads of protests and I don't think I have ever seen horses deployed that aggresively so early into what seemed pretty minor disorder. I guess we can only speculate why that happened today. Fucking racist cunts.

someone threw a flare over the Downing Street gates which must have triggered their “clear the area with horses“ plan

 

[YouSir]

Hard to see from the feed, looked like scuffles and a few missiles in the air but nothing that significant until they sent horses in and it went nuts for a while. One copper came off his horse, fell off rather than dismounted I think. Looks like theres a kettle in place now, hard to tell how many people theyve got trapped and how many are still outside.

It's probably not fair to comment just from watching the feed, but I've been on loads of protests and I don't think I have ever seen horses deployed that aggresively so early into what seemed pretty minor disorder. I guess we can only speculate why that happened today. Fucking racist cunts.

Provocation, presumably. That image of the horse running off on it's own already has sensible Centrists on Twitter weeping about the hateful protestors picking on poor innocent horses. Mana from heaven for the Tories and the Right. No matter how exaggerated.

 

[YouSir]

attacking the police is right and good though.

I'm not saying force has no place, but when nothing happens people need to stop getting over excited about it.

 

[chilango]

I don't think trying to get "good PR" with the murdering public school bastards and their mates is something to be focussed on tbh.

 

[YouSir]

I don't think trying to get "good PR" with the murdering public school bastards and their mates is something to be focussed on tbh.

Didn't say it was.

 

[killer b]

sensible Centrists on Twitter weeping

I'm looking forward to their seamless pivot from #saytheirname #blacklivesmatter to #sendinthearmy

 

[salem]

Probably as seamless as the pivot some are having from being furious at Dominic Cummings to gathering in the thousands.