Thousands turn out for UK anti-racism protest

[itsnotoutthere]

Thousands of people have joined anti-racism demonstrations across the UK.

The protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd in the US, are being held in cities including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Leicester and Sheffield.

In London, protesters knelt for a minute's silence before chanting "no justice, no peace" and "black lives matter".

Protest....coronavirus.....social distancing......black lives matter.

My irony meter just exploded.

 

[+and-then]

I wonder what happens if we don't see viral armaggedon in a few weeks?

[itsnotoutthere]

17 minutes ago, and then said:

I wonder what happens if we don't see viral armaggedon in a few weeks?

Im betting mid August, everybody back indoors, and the BBC blame Boris.

Or alternatively, nothing happens and the BBC blame Boris anyway.

Edited June 6, 2020 by itsnotoutthere

[freetoroam]

Yep the irony.

Loads of people who have spent weeks of  frustration and boredom over the virus, have now taken to the streets, flaunting social distancing rules, not giving a damn about trying to get rid of the virus and saving thousands of lives.

Why the heck is this happening in the UK?  Because - people are ditto to the above.

I see some in America are asking for no police, well let the ghettos begin.

How can you not have law and order? We have a thread about this on here somewhere. There would be chaos. Gangs of different cultures will take over the streets and there would be more racism than ever before between all colours. 

 

[itsnotoutthere]

If this doesn't scream "**** YOU" to all those front line nurses & doctors, I don't know what does.

 

[hetrodoxly]

What do black people in the UK want?

[Duke Wellington]

They are rioting https://news.sky.com/story/george-floyd-violence-breaks-out-at-anti-racism-protest-in-london-12001942

[itsnotoutthere]

20 minutes ago, hetrodoxly said:

What do black people in the UK want?

It's not so much 'black people' it's more to do with virtue signalling and politics.

Edited June 6, 2020 by itsnotoutthere

[Piney]

21 minutes ago, hetrodoxly said:

What do black people in the UK want?

I never saw the kind of racism in the UK that I've seen in the U.S.  It was a different world. 

 

[freetoroam]

15 minutes ago, hetrodoxly said:

What do black people in the UK want?

What some want is a riot to break out so they can start looting.

There have been protests in Africa, AFRICA! were thousands of black people have been murdered by their black counterparts!! 

What about the black people who kill white people, is that ok?

This whole thing is crazy.

Yes there are racists out there FROM ALL COLOURS.

This should not be a  black lives matters thing, ALL colours matter. 

Remember, although the ex-officer who killed George was white, two of the other ex-officers were of asian origin. 

 

[Piney]

Just now, freetoroam said:

This should not be a  black lives matters thing, ALL colours matter. 

My 2 classmates who were killed by the cops in the Camden ghetto were Irish and Korean.

[bee]

47 minutes ago, itsnotoutthere said:

If this doesn't scream "**** YOU" to all those front line nurses & doctors, I don't know what does.

 

and to the rest of the population who have been co operating with the Lockdown etc. even when they might privately think the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.... but in good faith we've gone along with it especially because many people are genuinely scared half to death about it all because of the big fear campaign by the MSM...

and they would freak out even more if people didn't follow the guidelines...

looks like there are different rules for the protesters... and this is going to anger the general public -

 

[hetrodoxly]

I see a police woman as been knocked off her horse and taken to hospital, another incident with an horse being attacked not to be seen anytime soon on UK MSM

 

[freetoroam]

4 minutes ago, Piney said:

I never saw the kind of racism in the UK that I've seen in the U.S.  It was a different world. 

 

Many years back there was racism, but things have changed.

I remember as a kid, a police station (Carter street) along the Walworth Road in south London had a bad reputation for being pretty brutal. Today they would call them racist, but the truth is, they did not discriminate against who they would be brutal against.

I saw with my own eyes their brutality, against blacks AND whites.

I have no doubts the brutal officers in American are the same, but we do not hear about the brutality against other colours. 

I watched a programme about cops who kill, one brutal murderer was a black officer who took his position to a whole new corrupt level. As I mentioned earlier, we all know about the brutality in some African countries, where were the mass protests about the black lives matter there?

 

 

[itsnotoutthere]

7 minutes ago, bee said:

 

and to the rest of the population who have been co operating with the Lockdown etc. even when they might privately think the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.... but in good faith we've gone along with it especially because many people are genuinely scared half to death about it all because of the big fear campaign by the MSM...

and they would freak out even more if people didn't follow the guidelines...

looks like there are different rules for the protesters... and this is going to anger the general public -

 

Yes, puts the Dominic Cummings press frenzy into perspective somewhat.

[bee]

1 minute ago, hetrodoxly said:

I see a police woman as been knocked off her horse and taken to hospital, another incident with an horse being attacked not to be seen anytime soon on UK MSM

 

they will be trying to do major damage limitation now - but it will all filter out -

the public are pretty sick and tired of the Media / BBC etc... and see through the games they play ..

I think there is a mood of deep cynicism from the public when it comes to the MSM...

if they try and brush this lot under the carpet it will get worse...

 

 

[hetrodoxly]

1 minute ago, bee said:

 

they will be trying to do major damage limitation now - but it will all filter out -

the public are pretty sick and tired of the Media / BBC etc... and see through the games they play ..

I think there is a mood of deep cynicism from the public when it comes to the MSM...

if they try and brush this lot under the carpet it will get worse...

 

 

Just seen the Guardian on Youtube are spinning it as 'police charge down protesters.

[freetoroam]

9 minutes ago, Piney said:

My 2 classmates who were killed by the cops in the Camden ghetto were Irish and Korean.

Sorry to hear that. 

No protests for them, no protests for non black people killed by the police.

My friend was thrown in the back of a police van and beaten up, TRUTH he did nothing wrong, we were walking along Burgess park late at night and the van was patrolling, they pulled up along side us,  and threw him in the back and drove off. Yes he was known to the police, but he was not on a curfew. He was white.

Another friend was told he was not allowed to stand on the grass area, (he was the only one on the grass as we were all sitting on a wall) he was told to get of the grass or be arrested, he got off the grass. We were not shocked, but it was absolutely so wrong, the area belonged to the flats. I was purely a show of power by the police.. My friend was black.

So as I said, colour did not matter, a brutal cop, is a brutal cop. Things have changed as there are now police of all colours. I wonder how they feel today? 

[itsnotoutthere]

14 minutes ago, bee said:

 

they will be trying to do major damage limitation now - but it will all filter out -

the public are pretty sick and tired of the Media / BBC etc... and see through the games they play ..

I think there is a mood of deep cynicism from the public when it comes to the MSM...

if they try and brush this lot under the carpet it will get worse...

 

 

Indeed. I used to watch the BBC like everyone else, but after this last couple of months I've literally stopped watching the beeb altogether, they have done nothing to help the public through this situation and have just continued on the way they did through the whole brexit period, they are so now out of step the the people that pay their wages that they have now become redundant as a news service. Their target audience now are the very people that watch Netfix, Now TV and Amazon more than they watch the BBC, they are literally cutting their own throats.

Subscription service awaits, let the people that watch it pay for it.

Edited June 6, 2020 by itsnotoutthere

[itsnotoutthere]

9 minutes ago, hetrodoxly said:

Just seen the Guardian on Youtube are spinning it as 'police charge down protesters.

The Guardian would, they are the BBC house magazine. (Two cheeks of the same ar**)

Edited June 6, 2020 by itsnotoutthere

[freetoroam]

24 minutes ago, bee said:

looks like there are different rules for the protesters... and this is going to anger the general public -

 

The general public will air their anger online, not on the streets.

Which is what the protesters should have done, protest on line.

We know the power of the media and we know the power of the internet. Taking this to the streets is a kick in the teeth to all the key workers and all the people who have kept safe.

It is an insult to all those who have lost family and loved ones and is disrespectful to all those who have died. 

It is an insult to all the good police who have protected us from flaunters and who have kept us safe from criminals. 

I know this will not happen because our country is too soft, but if any of those protesters become ill from the virus, they should not be allowed in our hospitals, if they die, they can die at home! Yes, I am angry and quite frankly am at a stage where I do not give a damn about those who do not give a damn about others. 

As mentioned, the irony around this whole protest thing is really off the scale.

[bee]

21 minutes ago, itsnotoutthere said:

Yes, puts the Dominic Cummings press frenzy into perspective somewhat.

 

doesn't it just....

and I expect London Mayor Khan will be tying himself in knots in the coming days... trying not to criticize the protesters but at the same time trying not to anger the public with ignoring the blatant disregard of the social distancing thing..

the incident that the whole thing is built around didn't even happen in the UK so it can hardly be described as 'essential' in any way shape or form... all the travelling from different areas of the country (I doubt they were all from London)... all the close contact...

like I said... many of us have gone along with all the guidelines even when we think we might have had the virus any way and thought that a lot of it was over the top scaremongering..... but we did it for the whole country and those people who were extra vulnerable and extra scared about it all....

then this happens and it's taking the p***..

 

 

[itsnotoutthere]

Yes, I've no doubt the MSM will focus on something quite different over the coming days in an effort to deflect attention away from this, probably something to do with Trump no doubt, because as we all know...it's all his fault anyway.

Edited June 6, 2020 by itsnotoutthere

[freetoroam]

1 hour ago, hetrodoxly said:

What do black people in the UK want?

It is not only black people protesting, it is white lefties who want Boris out and this is their excuse to try and do it. 

It would be interesting to know how many of these white fake protesters voting against Brexit?!

What we are seeing now are the remainers out on the street.

Edited June 6, 2020 by freetoroam

[itsnotoutthere]

12 minutes ago, freetoroam said:

It is not only black people protesting, it is white lefties who want Boris out and this is their excuse to try and do it. 

It would be interesting to know how many of these white fake protesters voting against Brexit?!

What we are seeing now are the remainers out on the street.

Spot on. You have summed up what is going on in a nutshell

Hence the backing of the BBC

I have a little thing I do when I see press photographs of these type of things, and that is to look closely at the placards the people are waving, and nine times out out of ten (including on this occasion) the 'Socialist Worker' logo can be seen on loads of them. As you say, in this country this has got little to do with legitimate protest, and everything to do with anarchy.

Edited June 6, 2020 by itsnotoutthere