There seem to be ongoing fairly severe issues on streatham high street in rush hour.
But that’s not why I’m posting. I went to the Palestine demo today and a thug who was a leader from the anti LTN demo (I saw him setting up their speakers), attacked and punched several Palestine protestors. Not only did the the police not arrest him but he was back at the LTN demo as the Palestine demo was packing up.
To be fair most of the anti LTN protestors seemed like normal residents. But there is clearly a nasty right wing element leading the campaign.
Is that what happened?
I went to the Palestinian demo.
At least one Zionist turned up and started waving the Israeli flag at front of demo as someone was speaking. A woman. Typical provocation.
Then I saw a lot of pushing and shoving with a man involved. ( the LTN guy?)
The police this time kept out of out. Which was a good thing, They kept to edge of demo and were not filming it or other intrusive behavior Ive seen at National demos.
Also unlike previous demo at Windrush square about Palestine where they Police got stuck in and tried to arrest someone for the placard they had. They had been scrutinising that demo.
So imo letting the protestors sort out the Zionists and not interfering was a step forward.
I have photos but did not put them out as I've been on a lot of the Palestine demos and police are checking social media. And do not want to get people in trouble
I did hear that the LTN lot were not happy that the Palestinian supporters had got the prime spot.
The LTN demo was around the corner.
It seemed civilised enough demo.
On numbers. Well the Palestine demo was not that big. But considering the timing demos are not always that big. Saw a lot of people I knew there. So it was the "usual suspects" Which is not a bad thing.