Posted on 04/24/2021 6:35:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Met said demonstrators hurled missiles, including bottles, during the protest in Hyde Park, which were attended by an estimated 10,000 people.
Two officers were taken to hospital, although their injuries were not believed to be serious, the Met said. Photographs posted on social media showed a female police officer bleeding from a cut to her head, while another suffered a similar wound on his forehead.
Some shoppers in Oxford Street were heckled by the crowd and told to “take your masks off”, according to eyewitnesses.
London mayoral candidates Piers Corbyn and Laurence Fox – two of the four anti-lockdown candidates running for election in May – were among those on the march.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
London mayoral candidate Piers Corbyn was on the march
Photograph: Nick Harvey/Rex/Shutterstock
London mayoral candidate Laurence Fox at Speakers’ Corner before the march.
Photograph: Nick Harvey/REX/Shutterstoc
I can’t read that sign.
Looks like “We won’t go home until we expose the Adrenochrome”?
LOL. British humour?
The video that I watched earlier clearly had more than 10,000 people.
I would estimate 500,000 if not 10 times that number.
Ya know, it’s basic math. If you break a couple lockdown enforcers legs every day, you’ll run out of officers within a couple weeks.
Actually not a joke, dry humour or not.
I was kicked through plate-glass doors by a guy on PCP. To these people, things like that NEVER happen. These morons “imagine”. They live in an imaginary world as a “coping” mechanism for the cold, hard, ugly... “reality”. That said. As old as I am... I wouldn’t mind a conversation with the young lady lower right in the 2nd photo. YES! I AM A “DOG”
“I would estimate 500,000 if not 10 times that number”
I think the figure was near the 10,000 mark - and certainly not 5 million!
The police and other agencies have access to HLR data from mobile/cell phone providers as to how many handsets are connected to nearby transmitters at any point. Many of us carry two phones and this is taken into account.
I was part of a UK parliament select committee that looked at this kind of data (back in 2011) as a way of monitoring and capturing the movement of individuals.
More recently a number of countries have publicly confirmed this data are used to monitor lockdowns and curfews (Spain being a good example).
Notwithstanding my other comment, I am totally on the side of these protestors. Trouble is that Piers Corbyn and Laurence Fox are two of the worst “poster boys” for this campaign.
I have been carefully watching other members of the public week on week and noticed that a significant minority are absolutely sh.t scared of the plague.
These are mainly older people who by now have had both jabs and are considered “safe”. Take-up of the “cure” is 95%+ in this age group.
There’s also a significant number of much younger people, who at very very low risk, are wearing masks outside in the park! There has never been any rule in England that states you have to wear a mask outside, just distance. I kept my distance from undesirables, even before the plague.
And then those drivers who insist on wearing a mask in their car, with the windows closed. Idiots or what. I guess they sleep with a mask on at night too.
Do you have any third party crowd estimates or video that shows the crwd from a high vantage point?
The short answer is NO.
But what’s unusual to me about this story is just how little coverage of the event we had yesterday. The BBC doesn’t have it on its main site and the Daily Mail has just one article. (Currently we seem more focused on the political scandal related to who paid to redecorate the Prime Minister’s Downing Street apartment)
This lack of coverage is IMO very unusual, given the violence involved. Technically the event breaches the COVID curfew rules, has a couple of well know individuals competing to be Mayor of London and a lot of COVID deniers. Perhaps it’s this last group that the Government or press wants to starve of publicity?
The areas where the protestors walked are not generally overlooked except from offices (closed Saturday and with no viewing galleries). Drones are generally not being flown by individuals in central London these days due to the widespread use of prohibited areas, managed by GPS. Some of the ground shots - for example Oxford Street - look just like a busy shopping day at Xmas (when they now close vehicle traffic off).
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