EDL leaders assaulted then arrested in London

zoomee said:
Walking down past a mosque or not, it was clear what their intentions were by inviting these two bigots to attend their 'walk of peace':
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At least you said 'bigots'. For the Guardian and some other posters on here though, Islam!=race.

Arresting them though was a bit overkill. Police wouldn't bat an eyelid if they saw 2 Muslims walking past a different place of worship. Or a greasy spoons café serving full English :-)
 
bitslice said:
As far as I could tell the Police were talking to punchy guy? It just happened off camera.

And as mouthy EDL guy wouldn't shut up and listen then I'm not surprised he got arrested. The police are not there as free stooges for the next EDL publicity video, which was clearly what he was trying to turn this into.
EDL clearly need a little more practice at the Photo Op concept.
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You'd think so, but judging by this thread the EDL don't need to do any better to rouse the rabble.
 
nemtizz said:
It's a shame that decent, genuine coppers get undue stick because of bs situations like this.
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Only from idiots, though.

The vast majority of police are decent people, of course you get the odd idiot, then the fools who find themselves on the wrong side of the law too often start with their 'the police suck' rubbish.
 
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It's a bit concerning how police today are (ab)used to control/shut down protests rather than just enforce the law, I wouldn't be surprised if the guy who punched the EDL member was an agent provocateur to try and bait them into an arrestable offense. If anyone was being obstructive it was the police.
 
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