'die-In' Protest At London's Westfield Shopping Centre

[anotheoldgit]

In an earlier post I asked "what is going to be the next one", well here we are it has happened, but what a mass sit-in in a shopping centre has got anything to do with a black man being shot in America completely escapes me.

There were shouts of "I can't breath" well may I suggest that they should keep out of crowded shopping centres for a start ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2869414/76-people-arrested-protesters-hold-mass-die-London-s-Westfield-shopping-centre-solidarity-Americans-demonstating-death-Eric-Garner.html

[Svejk]

You're mixing your black 'victims' up, aog. This is about the one who was strangled~(lol) not shot.

[Svejk]

I should think a bit of Christmas Looting was the motivation for many. I was going to say I wouldn't want to be a security guard there today but see I'm too late.

[naomi24]

Don't any of these people who protest go to work? How do they find the time?

[andy-hughes]

Svejk - " ... strangled~(lol) ..."

Where does the 'lol' come in?

[Svejk]

I thought you weren't interested in my 'stupid and inflammatory' remarks. ;)

[B00]

Eric Garner's death in the States was dreadful and totally unnecessary, however I fail to see how British people protesting in a shopping centre here in the UK is going to have any influence.

[Peter Pedant]

ha ha good one - dont go into a shopping centre it may affect your health !


//You're mixing your black 'victims' up, aog. This is about the one who was strangled~(lol) not shot.//

No no schweik good old AOG is right to link them as he alone has spotted they couldnt breathe afterwards - or if they could, they certainly werent !


and as for shouting 'I cant breath' instead of breathe .....ignorant lot - they all didnt complete secondary school I think - and a smattering of Romanians too -have you heard them try to speak English ?

I meant how can you expect gallant police officers to understand them if they dont speak proper ?

altogether I give AOG 10 / 10

[mushroom25]

it won't B00 - if you've ever watched TV news in the US, you'll note that only cataclysms outside of the US ever get reported.

[B00]

Peter!!!

[ChillDoubt]

I didn't realise a bandwagon could stretch the length of the Atlantic.

[Old_Geezer]

I bet they were die-in to protest at that occurrance of something that occurred in an other country.

[Peter Pedant]

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//Where does the 'lol' come in?//

not strangled - throttled actually.

[ the post mortem bruising pattern is different for a start. In throttling - you get linear bruising following the finger gaps which is characteristic]

[B00]

And possibly quite rightly too mushroom. The States probably has enough news of it's own without giving airtime to some tin pot wishy washy Brit protest!

[dave50]

They should have been chucked out by whatever force necessary. Absolute waste of space, the lot of them.

[andy-hughes]

Svejk - "I thought you weren't interested in my 'stupid and inflammatory' remarks. ;)"

is that for me?

Unsure why - I have never referred to your remarks as 'stupid', or as far as I am aware 'inflamatory' - so not sure where that observation comes from - please add a response when you clarify the 'lol' in your previous post.

Many thanks.

[Peter Pedant]

andy you are chasing hares...
let us get back to the die-in

If they wanna demonstrate to show support
then they are allowed to

and did anyone notice - 75 arrests and no deaths ?

[youngmafbog]

There you go then Peter, the British Plod are not as racist as many on here like to make out.

This is absolutely ridiculous and needs to be nipped in the bud. This has nothing to do with the UK and there is nothing the UK can do about it. These people should be fined the full cost of their actions, ie the lost ot the shops, the cost of plod, courts and food and time in Jail.

[andy-hughes]

Peter - "andy you are chasing hares... "

I don't think so.

Svejk has posted something cryptic, I have queried it.

He has then posted something I believe to be inaccurate, so I have queried that as well.

I offer no apologies for this slight side-track - I know AOG appreciates the notion of letting a thread roam where it will - so I await responses.

[Snafu03]

Sadly the chants of 'I can't breath' were unfounded...

[B00]

"Sadly the chants of 'I can't breath' were unfounded... "

I can clearly hear them saying that in the video in the link