Why Was This Traffic Disrupting Protest Allowed To Take Place?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3682427/Hundreds-BlackLivesMatter-protesters-Britain-s-streets-wave-demonstrations-against-police-shootings.html

And why was no one arrested, except a frustrated bus driver?

[bazwillrun]

top marks...youve just proved talbots point...you really dont like it when youre wrong do you ?.....just another pseudo-intellectual...

[-Talbot-]

I have concerns as to what this march will lead to, anyone with the ability to think will also have concerns. You for some reason (probably scared of it coming back to bite your ***) will not commit to an answer.

[THECORBYLOON]

I am sure TALBOT can speak for himself...

[-Talbot-]

I just have

[THECORBYLOON]

What concerns do you have then?

[sp1814]

-Talbot-

It's been 24 hours, and there have been no follow-ups to the march, so perhaps we shouldn't be overly concerned.

One point though - this march took place in London...I highly doubt whether black people in the U.S. would take to the streets of Los Angeles had a black teenager been killed by the police in Peckham.

[mushroom25]

quite so SP - although the killing of Mark Duggan lit up many parts of the UK in 2011, it caused not a stir in the USA.

[stuey]

It would have been an appropriate occasion to find out if those moth-balled water-cannons are still functional.

[Peter Pedant]

O come on ! be fair boys !
at least the protesters didnt SHOOT the bus driver
(or the other way round)
so British ....

[webbo3]

We had one in Bristol today as well, pointless as it happened in the US, when black teenagers stop killing each other then they can look at the police.

https://www.facebook.com/bristolpost/videos/1041875379210978/


Dave.

[joeluke]

Pointless, another case of 'Let's have a protest just for the sake of it'

[tonyav]

A silent one in Brum yesterday. I bet the shop owners in the Bullring were well chuffed.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2016/07/09/black-lives-matter-protest-held-in-birmingham-after-us-shootings/

[Togo]

Sigh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjmh52fkQJA

[david small]

It's cos I'm black innit. Plasma TVs and trainers required again?

[Togo]

Did Mugabe arrange it?

[sp1814]

Nice one PP!

:-)

[Peter Pedant]

// quite so SP - although the killing of Mark Duggan lit up many parts of the UK in 2011, it caused not a stir in the USA.//

funnily enough Benji Stanley the kid who was gunned down in a pie shop ( double dealing a drug dealer - yikes - but we didnt know that at the time ) made the news in San Francisco..... ( I know coz I was there )

anyway AOG 's right
come on tell us AOG - you think Black Lives DON'T matter - dont you ?
a perfectly good reason to break up a demonstration in that case

[naomi24]

The demonstrators have achieved nothing except social disruption and a bill for the taxpayer. A pointless exercise.

[Peter Pedant]

everyone has a right to demonstrate Ni ...

even you