Above is a video of an 89 year old World War 2 veteran and anti-war campaigner Bertie Lewis being knocked down by riot police at the Bolton Stop the EDL protest. He served in RAF Bomber Command against Hitler and many of his comrades were killed.
The incident happened while he was protesting against the misnamed English Defence League an extreme Islamophobic fascist organisation, which had come to Bolton to stir up anti-Muslim hatred. The EDL is made up primarily of soccer hooligans. When Bertie Lewis was knocked down by the police in the Town Square of his home town in Bolton on Saturday, he was part of a group of other pensioners and disabled people.
In the film above, you can see Bertie brutally shoved aside (at 26 seconds) by a police officer carting someone off.
A counter-demonstration organised by Unite Against Fascism mobilised over 2000 anti-fascists which prevented the EDL from rampaging through the Asian areas of Bolton. The EDL had previously rampaged through Luton and Stoke assaulting Asians, attacking property and cars. White people who objected were denounced as "race traitors".
Numerous anti-EDL demonstrators were arrested - some extremely brutally - with the police deliberately targeting protest leaders. The film above may be useful for those who intend to take action against them. The video can be downloaded from here.
The police are not currently banned from joining the EDL as they are with the BNP.
17 comments:
The video isn't there at the moment. If you've only just posted the second video, it might take an hour or so to be processed by YouTube.
'The video isn't there at the moment. If you've only just posted the second video, it might take an hour or so to be processed by YouTube.'
Bugger. I have only just posted it. Thanks for letting us know.
Be patient, folks. It'll get there!
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For the 2nd video,I got "The video you requested is not available."
How long do Youtube videos take to be processed ?
Hey the films on at last. Good too and well done for giving a download link.
Poor Mr Lewis. Is he alright?
The 2nd video is on.
'The 2nd video is on.'
Thanks for the info, people. :-)
Those dispicably sick bastards on Casuals United just wrote this about the 89 year old man the riot cops violently assaulted: "ITS THEIR JOB TO BE FRIENDLY WITH PEACEFUL PROTESTERS AND NICK VIOLENT ONES = GISS YOUR PAYPAL WE’LL BUY THAT OLD COMMIE A NEW HIP AND A STANNAH STAIRLIFT"
http://casualsunited.wordpress.com/
How could the EDL be so cruel and uncaring?
What those cowardly thugs on the Casuals United Blog wrote about the victim of police violence makes me physically sick!
I couldn't see what happened on that video.
"Those dispicably sick bastards on Casuals United just wrote this about the 89 year old man the riot cops violently assaulted: "ITS THEIR JOB TO BE FRIENDLY WITH PEACEFUL PROTESTERS AND NICK VIOLENT ONES = GISS YOUR PAYPAL WE’LL BUY THAT OLD COMMIE A NEW HIP AND A STANNAH STAIRLIFT"
LOL well said boys,hang the commie vermin.E E EDL B B BNP!
You need to play the video on freeze-frame at least 1/6 speed to see the riot policeman violently assaulting the pensioner.
EDL ARE STILL PLANNING RACE RIOTS: -
https://london.indymedia.org/articles/4516
https://northern-indymedia.org/articles/583
Seems extremely likely,sadly!
I'm the guy who you hear in the film saying "Bertie, Get his hat" etc, I reached for his hand to help him up. I had been talking to Bertie a minute or so before our small group of people were hit by the steamroller armour clad snatch squad who'd just got themselves some prey. The police most certainly saw us in front of them when they came along with their none struggling prisoner,they did not have their heads screwed on backwards. They most certainly had the attitude as we can see on the film - 'If You Don't See The Train Coming Then Hard Fucking Luck If You Don't Get Out Of The Way'. Not surprisingly they just carried straight on after they had knocked Bertie over, indeed they almost knocked me to the ground and a few other people in our group at the same time. I never saw one copper come from the line a few yards from us who saw what happened to Bertie and show concern. But to be fair I was told by my partner that one policeman did come over from that police (fluorescent jacketed) line and show concern for Bertie's welfare. As for the fools who ploughed into us, Bertie getting the worst of it they didn't seem to give a hoot who they knocked over, even a grand old fellow anti fascist like Bertie. He was fighting fascism in bomber Command over the skies of Germany before the USA got into the WW11. Bertie came over here to England as a American citizen to get into the fight and risk his life because he was a committed anti fascist which is more than can be said for the British establishment then and now! That's why Bertie was there in Victoria Square Bolton on Saturday 20/03/10 showing his human decency in opposing the racist, fascist filth of the EDL. The BNP is full square behind them and is organising and pulling strings behind the scenes. Bertie was in Victoria square for his dead comrades of the war and the children of our future to live in peace and brotherhood no matter what the colour of their skin, to build a better world together. The thanks he got form the British police was to be mown down with contempt like a worthless rag doll, without a word of apology or concern from the officialdom of the police. We should demand a public apology for Bertie from the police who were running that disgraceful miss use of state power with obvious bias towards those who regard Bertie as red scum and a race traitor ie the EDL.
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