Black Lives Matter versus All Lives Matter

BLM has protestors in Hyde Park today growstuff

You do realise that Black Lives Matter called of their London protest, don't you? Can you honestly see racist thugs suggesting that they build communities?

One thing people could learn form Liverpool is to chase Tommy Robinson away, so he hid in a toilet in Lime Strret station.

London should take a leaf out of Liverpool where there were 7,000 in a quiet protest whose slogan was " we shouldn't be tearing statues down, instead we should be building communities ". Well done Liverpool.

Not sure this can be interpreted other than a Nazi salute maizie

I think you'll find that this lot are winning the thuggery battle. I'm disgusted that anybody can make excuses for them.

The left-wing did not whip up hatred for the police. People who objected to discrimination against black people protested. Some people then whipped up hatred because they're racist. No ifs, buts or excuses.

Which original protesters EllanVannin? BLM called off their protest. There was a small, peaceful protest in another part of London.

Britain is not full of angry people, but there were certainly a few hundred angry white men in London today, who were there for no other purpose to have a fight.

The left-wing started all this by whipping up hatred toward the police for killing that man then one thing led to another and the reason why the police stood back through the mayhem of destruction was in case they were seen as racists themselves because of the cause.

It's bound to set other groups off such as the EDL, it was already known that this would happen via Intelligence so today the police had to be seen doing their job and went after the far-righters instead, leaving the original protesters alone.

I can see exactly what's happening. The police are damned if they do and damned if they don't and they know who the least supported group is so go after them in case they upset the majority.

Britain is an angry country full of angry people and there's little anyone can do to halt this now bigger divide because of the extreme attitudes of left and right.

Has anyone seen any women (apart from policewomen having punches thrown at them) in those clips?

I saw a piece on TV the other day about how the biggest threat to democracy now was the far right activist groups, and these groups are attracting and recruiting very young people. I can see in the crowds quite a few young white men. These men will have grown up in a multi-racial society, and have no doubt been taught that racism is wrong, but they are out there demonstrating and attacking the police. The statues are just an excuse to stage right wing demonstrations.

It's all about protecting the statues, which is fair enough I suppose if there'd been intentions to pull more down.

Indeed, EV, that was their stated intention during the week. I even posted a comment somewhere about it.

But having got to London and found that the statues didn't need to be protected from anyone why didn't they have a drink and a chat with their mates and then go home?

By doing that, it acted as a heads up to other groups to make it a free for all on the pretext that they were protecting the city.

Rubbish. Just rubbish... The police are there to protect the city. Not groups of drunken far right Little Englanders...

How does fighting the police 'protect the city'?

Coronavirus deaths have gone up in this country.

and police and police horses were being attacked.

I think, if you bother to open my links, Smileless that you will see some police horses being attacked...

It's all about protecting the statues, which is fair enough I suppose if there'd been intentions to pull more down. By doing that, it acted as a heads up to other groups to make it a free for all on the pretext that they were protecting the city.
These people crave violence----worse than animals and certainly not civilised even if they think they are.

Mandela---can be pulled down for all I care. He was a murderer of his own people which is why he was imprisoned. Him and his brutal wife Winnie.

MaizieD they are not my thugs , what a ridiculous thing to post!!

Unfortunately there is an under belly of thuggery on both sides of the political spectrum.

Ahh, GG13 and Jabberwok, but they're 'your' thugs. These are the Brexit voters the government was too scared of to let us have a confirmatory referendum.

And, OMG, were they right to be scared...

And they had a cause, whether you agree with it or not.

This lot don't even have a reason.

These extreme right wingers are thugs just looking for a fight -any fight.

Their whole aim is to disrupt the BLM protests. Protecting statues is just an excuse to be there and cause as much mayhem as possible.

I'm not altogether sure about the 'nazi salutes'. Some people have said that it's a football thing, arm in the air, punching the air kind of gesture. We could give them the benefit of the doubt there..

This all kicked off not long after mid day. The trouble in London last week was not until later in the day, after a very large peaceful demonstration. Just for comparison...

Exactly GG13!

Footage of the demonstration taking place in London today. This was billed as being to protect statues and the cenotaph from BLM protestors.

BLM cancelled their march, fearing there would be trouble. So what are this lot so angry about and why are they attacking the police?

twitter.com/BBCDomC/status/1271761377317851136

And this:
twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1271774991454015489

and this

twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1271772530529972224

twitter.com/AvaSantina/status/1271779403928870913

A thug is a thug, whether they are black, white or any shade in between, whatever their political leanings.

They have a strange way of showing respect for memorials. This is the memorial for the police officer who was killed in the 2017 terrorist attack in London.

I can't wait for Johnson and Patel to condemn the disgraceful behaviour.

Oh! And they started off their patriotic protest by singing "10 German bombers".