Complete over reaction by the police.

[anotheoldgit]

Are these the Thugs that the police turned out in force complete with their dogs to arrest, seem like two nice decently dressed boys.

http://i.dailymail.co...00578-974_634x433.jpg

This was just to counteract the fact that they had to take action against the Muslims Against Crusades.

Notice the different reports from the London report to the Guardian one, which was also quoted by the Daily Mail.

Was it to prevent them taking action against the 'unclean' outside St Paul's or was it because there may have been some Muslims around?

[emmie]

doubt they are just nice boys, just because you put on a suit and brush your hair doesn't make you one. They undoubtedly had other things on their minds, than paying their respects to the fallen.

[bednobs]

sorry, on my browser yoyur link leads to a photo
what has how people are dressed have anything to do with it?

[Philtaz]

I'd be interested to read their charge sheets and find out which particular offence they are alleged to have committed.

[Answerprancer]

There's nothing "unclean" about the protesters outside St Pauls.
Have you actually been there and seen for yourself ? I have.
As for "seem like two nice decently dressed boys" - you could have said the same about Hitler and Mussolini.

[emmie]

just like the odious anjem choudary.

[ummmm]

They haven't even got their top buttons done up!!

[naomi24]

When I click the link I get only a picture, so I don't know what you're talking about. Have you got a link to the story?

[Philtaz]

The BBC report claims 157 have been arrested. Sounds a little draconian, unless many will (as I suspect) be de-arrested once they were well away from the Cenotaph, having initially been arrested in order to prevent a breach of the peace.

Could be a nice little earner for those in the law business who like to take on the Met.

[emmie]

assuming that these blokes belong to the EDL and that the police have arrested over a hundred or so, expecting a clash between them and the Muslims against Crusade charmers, who have been banned anyway. Perhaps they will pop up under another name.

[Philtaz]

Crikey, now more than 170 arrests. Doubtless there'd have been fewer if they'd marched past the Finsbury mosque with flags and banners waving!

As there have been no reported clashes between rival groups it does appear that the Met have been a little over-zealous.

[emmie]

sometimes you wonder whether there is one rule for one, and one for another, however perhaps they should arrest them all, MAC, and EDL, for no other reason than they are all stupid. Then those who want to pay their respects to the fallen, at the Cenotaph, Royal Albert Hall, and anywhere for that matter can do so in peace.

[Philtaz]

Thing is em the EDL, despite their political stance don't commit such vile and inflammatory acts as burning poppies, hence they make themsleves look as if they are better behaved and more civil than MAC.

I know the poppy is not a religious symbol so there isn't really a comparison but imagine if the EDL had burnt the Koran last year in reprisal? There'd have been a riot!

[Zeuhl]

<<seem like two nice decently dressed boys>>

was this tongue in cheek or do some people actually make assessments of someone's character based on something so meaningless and unreliable?

[anotheoldgit]

The Metropolitan Police said: 'A group of members of the EDL have been arrested in Central London to prevent a breach of the peace which was likely to occur elsewhere in London.'

Likely to occur, that seems to be a good enough reason, for using such a large number of police resources.

/// The Guardian reported that those arrested were thought to be aiming for the St Paul's camp. ///

So that's it then, if the Guardian thought that, it must have been true.

Incidentally it was 2 hours after the wreaths were laid.

[boxtops]

Is there a link to this story please? I have no idea what the story is.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml

http://www.telegraph....notaph-in-London.html

http://www.guardian.c...s-peace?newsfeed=true

[ichkeria]

How long did you take to come up with that spin, Mr AOG?
The MAC protest was (probably rightly) banned and the organisation claims to have disbanded.
You may refuse to believe it, but the dogs in the street know the EDL is a rag-bag extreme right-wing, racist "organisation" with a fair number of thugs in its midst, as members or hangers-on. The defence that several hundred of them had gathered in local pubs just to "honour our glorious war dead is naive in the extreme.
So, maybe the police did over-ract, as arguably they also did against the student demo yesterday but, given the above, I'd reserve judgment on that allegation for now ...

[ichkeria]

No No Vera!
Please don't take our cuddly AOG from us!
Believe me he's not the type to settle down lol

[andy-hughes]

Contrary to the spin you continually try to use to defend the facist filth that is the EDL AOG - the police do not tend to arrest people for being smartly dressed. Maybe there was some other reason?

It's not as if, with the EDL mobbing around to protest against an organisation that was banned yesterday (but they still feel the need to turn up and object to foreign bar staff and start chucking stools around) the police had nothing else to do, is it?