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2023-08-31 Britain

Knife thugs armed with huge machetes brawl in street in front of crowds of revellers at Notting Hill carnival - nal day 'marred by violence' as eight are stabbed and police officer is sexually assaulted

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] At least no one was shot!

Met Police said eight people were stabbed on the final day of the carnival

Shocking photos show men wielding machetes in broad daylight on Monday

Read more: Notting Hill carnival revellers URINATED on police officers, Met union chief reveals

The photographer said he found himself 'in the wrong place at the wrong time' and claimed the 'joyful atmosphere turned unexpectedly as an altercation broke out nearby, between two gangs with knives and a machete'.

Separate video footage also emerged today of a gang of youths, one holding a suspected machete, running down a west London street dressed in black and wearing balaclavas amid a violent end to the annual festival.

The Metropolitan Police says it made 308 arrests across Sunday and Monday, as eight people were stabbed on Monday in just a matter of hours, including a 29-year-old man who was taken to hospital in a 'critical' condition.

Police officers were also kicked, punched, spat on, bitten, head-butted and even sexually assaulted - in all, more than 50 officers were assaulted.

The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, says it is aware of 75 incidents of officers being attacked, branding the incidents 'absolutely disgusting'.

It came as the Conservative Party's London mayoral candidate Susan Hall called for the carnival to be moved and potentially held in a park, saying police 'don't want to be there'.

However, a spokesman for London mayor Sadiq Khan said the event was 'born out of the Caribbean community in north Kensington and Notting Hill' and that this should 'remain its home'.

Ms Hall told LBC: 'It's very upsetting and I'm afraid we have this every single year. It's an incredible thing, the Notting Hill Carnival. I would just say move it. Move it to where it can be policed much better than where it is now.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top
File under: Mob Rule

#1 "Don't judge them, Ms. Roberts! One can't,"
Begs Notting Hill bookman Hugh Grant,
And ducks as young men
With machetes again
Pass his window.
"Don't worry, I shan't!"
[freshens lipstick]

Posted by Angaviling Thrusolet8906 2023-08-31 18:53|| 2023-08-31 18:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Dammit, brain... Bookman link.

Posted by Angaviling Thrusolet8906 2023-08-31 18:59|| 2023-08-31 18:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Police officers were also kicked, punched, spat on, bitten, head-butted and even sexually assaulted

Oh no! Somebody say an out-and-proud bulldyke looks like a leesbian?!

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-08-31 19:42|| 2023-08-31 19:42|| Front Page Top

#4 "Baton strikes? Completely uncool...
And unneeded," bleats newsreading tool,
"If you sheep do not stray,
And take care what you say
To a PC who's working to rule."

Posted by Angaviling Thrusolet8906 2023-08-31 22:41|| 2023-08-31 22:41|| Front Page Top

#5 "Today, in the land of Diana,
They'll beat you with--"
"HAVE A BANANA!"
"--for saying aloud
That a copper looks proud
As a woman police constable."
"Nana!"

Posted by Angaviling Thrusolet8906 2023-08-31 23:57|| 2023-08-31 23:57|| Front Page Top

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