bijou
04-01-2009, 03:46 PM
http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/galleries/news/g20protest/bloody.jpg
http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/galleries/news/g20protest/face-bash.jpg
PROTESTERS stormed the Royal Bank of Scotland this afternoon and besieged the Bank of England as the City institutions became the target of mob hatred.
More than 4,000 demonstrators clashed with police in what Scotland Yard called “increasing levels of violence”.
A morning of peaceful marches against the G20 summit of world leaders including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown ended with the sound of broken glass in Threadneedle Street. The windows of the RBS branch office were smashed in and a group of men wearing bandanas charged inside. There were reports that some of them got on the roof of the seven-storey building.
Several police officers and demonstrators were treated for head injuries as the two sides surged backwards and forwards. A printer and other office equipment were thrown out onto the street. Hundreds of protesters cheered as a chair was used to smash one of the windows. Around the branch office, which had been shut by RBS as a precaution, demonstrators charged police lines as officers hit back with baton charges.
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link (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23669816-details/Bank+rage+in+the+City+on+Obama%27s+big+day/article.do)
As far as I can tell there were protests against everything mixed together. On my way home I passed an abandoned protest sign which read 'Quit Iraq and Afghanistan - Yes we can', I am sorry that our protesters mocked your Presidents favourite slogan. ;)
http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/galleries/news/g20protest/face-bash.jpg
PROTESTERS stormed the Royal Bank of Scotland this afternoon and besieged the Bank of England as the City institutions became the target of mob hatred.
More than 4,000 demonstrators clashed with police in what Scotland Yard called “increasing levels of violence”.
A morning of peaceful marches against the G20 summit of world leaders including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown ended with the sound of broken glass in Threadneedle Street. The windows of the RBS branch office were smashed in and a group of men wearing bandanas charged inside. There were reports that some of them got on the roof of the seven-storey building.
Several police officers and demonstrators were treated for head injuries as the two sides surged backwards and forwards. A printer and other office equipment were thrown out onto the street. Hundreds of protesters cheered as a chair was used to smash one of the windows. Around the branch office, which had been shut by RBS as a precaution, demonstrators charged police lines as officers hit back with baton charges.
...
link (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23669816-details/Bank+rage+in+the+City+on+Obama%27s+big+day/article.do)
As far as I can tell there were protests against everything mixed together. On my way home I passed an abandoned protest sign which read 'Quit Iraq and Afghanistan - Yes we can', I am sorry that our protesters mocked your Presidents favourite slogan. ;)