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Scuffles broke out among demonstrators yesterday as people gathered in the capital to protest against the killing of two black men by police in the United States. Brixton was brought to a standstill as crowds chanting 'black lives matter' and 'hands up, don't shoot' packed into Windrush Square. A fight broke out after crowds said a bus passenger made a derogatory remark towards them. He was punched by one protester after being ushered away by six or seven police officers. One officer told the Press Association he believed the driver had been arrested.

Black Lives Matter Terrorists Murder Dallas Cops Is the race war Barack Obama wanted breaking out in Dallas and across America? July 8, 2016 Matthew Vadum    The ambush-style mass shooting of cops in Dallas, Texas, last night makes it clear that it is time for the dangerous, anti-American insurgency called Black Lives Matter to be designated a terrorist organization for fomenting a war against the nation’s law enforcement officers. As FrontPage went to press early Friday morning, five Dallas area police officers were dead, systematically slaughtered by snipers. That makes it the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement...

Dallas' police chief told reporters after midnight local time that they have three people in custody and were in a bullet-ridden standoff with another -- but the shooters have given no indication of their motive for ambushing police officers at a downtown march. Chief David Brown said the death toll was up to four officers after one more died at the hospital. Seven officers have been wounded. Brown said police were in negotiations with a suspect on the second floor of the El Centro College parking garage -- but the suspect had been firing at officers for the past 45...

Former Vice President Al Gore and a number of other senior Democrats plan to remain neutral for now in the presidential race in part to keep open the option to broker a peaceful resolution to what they fear could be a bitterly divided convention, party officials and aides said Friday. Democratic Party officials said that in the past week Mr. Gore and other leading Democrats had held private talks as worry mounted that the close race between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton could be decided by a group of 795 party insiders known as superdelegates. The signs that...