20 July (Part 2) - Epping boils over
There was nothing in this morning’s Sunday Telegraph of the disturbances in
Epping which is only 30 miles away from here, less as the crow flies. Nothing in
The Daily Mail On Line either and just a few references to far right thugs
elsewhere. Epping residents are understandably upset about a 14 year old girl being
sexually assaulted by an immigrant who had arrived by boat only a week earlier.
I watched quite a lot of their protest live streamed but it was of poor quality; yesterday something far more professional showed up on YouTube.
Did the police really escort masked people with the professionally produced
Refugees Welcome Here banners from the Central line station to enable them to
directly confront the residents? Did they stand with the police almost as if
they were part of them? When things became a bit lively, did the police load
them into their vans and give them a lift back to Epping station?
Did the police run away at one stage and drive into an old man who got in the
way? How severe were his injuries?
Did a police officer lose his temper and beat a resident? Would you like to see
how many of his teeth were knocked out?
Would you like to count how many police vans lost their wing mirrors to vandalism? All these questions
are clearly answered in the 58 minutes of Wesley Winter’s video.
Will it be a protester who is killed by the police first or will it be the other
way around? Things are getting serious again and if you don’t look at the new
media streams you might never see it coming.
YouTube direct link.