By about 8.30 the police encircled about 200 demonstrators who they wouldn't release until taking details and photos. The most questionable event of the evening was what exactly was an empty police van doing parked up beside the demonstrators when all other vehicles were kept out of the station. The van 'handily' had a couple of scaffold poles on it's roof rack and some snap happy police photographers with their lenses fixed on the van and the protesters around it. We'll let you decide on that one. Ritualistic confrontations with the old bill will only put our liberty and safety, and that of others at risk.
Violence is an often necessary occurrence to defend our gains from attack.
London N30 was not such an occasion. Worldwide Mumia demo's continue US death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has only one appeal left. There has been a mass of activity around the world to support him, including a national demo in London last month. Events continue throughout Europe in December. Meanwhile the 'white coveralls' group occupied McDonalds, locking themselves to the building and hanging banners.