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Very few EDL show-up in Walthamstow

Allan | 01.09.2012 19:15 | Anti-racism | Policing

EDL Walthamstow Match Report, part 1

According to the EDL the police had agreed for them to rendezvous in 3 pubs around Kings Cross railway station, but, so far as I could tell, the EDL could only fill one pub - The Dolphin - in the back streets behind Camden Town Hall. Arriving in Walthamstow around mid-day, around 800 highly ethnically-mixed counter-protestors had already assembled, listening to speeches from local interfaith types and Trades Union activists. Points of interest included banners from the British Medical Association and Jewish Socialists and a message of support from Sikhs Against The EDL.

Swelled now to I reckon around 1200 people, the counter-protest set-off around 1pm, and, credit where credit's due, UAF have sometimes been accused to leading people away from places where the EDL could be stopped, but the march went right up Hoe Street to the junction with Forest Road, to block the EDL's route from Blackhorse Road tube station (where you could tell the EDL still were, from the position of the police helicopter hovering above them). When, about 30 minutes later, the EDL came up Forest Road, in contrast to their poor showing in Tower Hamlets (about 700), today the EDL were down to about 200.

On the way 2 - count 'em, just TWO members of the public expressed any support for the EDL, while shirtless, butt-ugly late middle-aged goons treated police photographers to a veritable catwalk of faded skinhead tattoos and helpfully informed the press and passers-by that they were all paedophiles. Just after the EDL passed the William Morris Art Gallery, the EDL responded to the first group of counter-protestors by throwing bottles and thunder-flashes, and, rather than steaming-in to arrest the people who were throwing bombs at members of the public, the police responded by attacking a group of punks for the crime of raising a banner, making violent arrests, smacking people onto the pavement and into the side of a bus shelter.

More to follow...

Allan

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EDL Walthamstow Match Report, part 2

01.09.2012 20:24

Since the police had kettled the sit-down counter-protest at the junction of Forest Rd and Hoe St, thereby completely blocking their own route for escorting the EDL, the cops re-directed the EDL round the back-streets, avoiding the main block, but heading straight into another police blockade at the top of Kenilworth Ave (where, if it hadn't been blocked, the EDL would have been able to re-join Forest Rd). Hoping an EDL rally might somehow "help" their fledging political party, whose name nobody can be bothered to even remember, EDL leader and former BNP member Stephen Lennon waited on the pavement further up Forest Rd, with a few minders, a small tent, loudspeakers and massive police protection - surrounded, outnumbered and totally drowned-out by hundreds more very unwelcoming counter-protestors. Napoleon's cousin Kev Carroll had forced himself into a suit, but seemed confused about whether he was impersonating a real politician or dressing for work as a loan-shark's enforcer.

The sheer weight of opposition meant the main EDL group was never going to make it from Kenilworth Ave to reach Captain Manwairing's tent on Forest Rd, so the police escorted Lennon back to the main EDL group to preach to the EDL's already-converted, in a side-street, with no-one else listening. After a long wait the police escorted the EDL back the way they came, so they slunk off back to Blackhorse Rd, pausing only to chant "Allah is a Paedo" at a handful of mums and toddlers watching them from the garden of the William Morris Art Gallery. A small group of kids threw bits of mud at them, and the police responded by going totally apeshit and threatening to use their truncheons to beat-up the iron railings separating them from the patrons of the art gallery. All in all a pretty shit day for Britain's "leading" group of closet NF and BNP activists.

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Met Police Read This

01.09.2012 22:49







EDL supporter Darren Mann posed for photos holding knives and hammers, promising he'd join the EDL demo in Walthamstow. The police knew perfectly well this sociopath would be turning up in Walthamstow, and he did, but rather than arresting Darren and protecting Londoners from a potentially homicidal thug, the cops ignored widely-publicised warnings of his intentions, and, when Darren and/or his mates attacked counter-protestors with bottles and fireworks, the police arrested arrested some of the counter-protestors instead

The 1st and 2nd photos are ones Darren posted on-line, in the 2nd you can see the word Darren tattooed on his left arm, the "crucified skinhead" and braces tattooed on his chest. The 3rd photo shows him at today's demo - left, "crucified skinhead" and braces visible. 4th & 5th photos - same demo, more of the same tattoos (note wristband). Photo 6 - he's the guy carrying the flag which says "EDL - Stockton Wrecking Crew", the Stockton Wrecking Crew are a right-wing skinhead gang who've been known to the cops for years, which I guess is why the cops did NOTHING

Seamus B


cops/fash

01.09.2012 23:16

same thing.

marshmellow


wow

01.09.2012 23:35

What a bunch of morons. It's like watching the real life incarnation of that advert for The Sun...

KermitTheFrog


the whole edl demo - count their little heads

02.09.2012 12:46

good acoustics, shame about the actual numbers -

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Nn8jK5W_jPg

application


Moderators!

02.09.2012 12:47

Please join up the 2 reports and then delete this message, ta ;)

Allan


Metropolitan Police

02.09.2012 23:14

Having had a go at the Met for not arresting the EDL bomb-throwers that provoked such trouble as there was in Walthamstow - minimal trouble given the degree of provocation - some people have said that in fact, when the EDL got back to Blackhorse Rd tube, the Met arrested all of them, yes ALL of them

Still the cops should not have lashed-out at anti-fascists however

Al


Footage of EDL bomb throwing

03.09.2012 14:23

You can see the smoke where the first EDL bomb landed among the anti-fascists -
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-k7oF9bAL8

Seconds later, police MEDIC crushes anti-fascist's head against the pavement inside bus shelter -
 http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/3ca34ad265c01e27a9fef2d0090d4b56.jpg

Homeward bound, EDL surge (aka failed attack) outside the art gallery -
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSZgNWtxoF0

Hugh Grant


EDL Walthamstow - Knives, Hammers + Stockton Wrecking Crew

03.09.2012 19:41

EDL Walthamstow - Stockton Wrecking Crew
EDL Walthamstow - Stockton Wrecking Crew

EDL Walthamstow - Knives, Hammers (see above) + Stockton Wrecking Crew

Ed


Moderators!!!!!!!

03.09.2012 19:42

As above

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