BLACK LIVES MATTER UK

It is a wonder to behold that the police and the Tories are fawning over this evil, communist rabble. In Brexit Means Brexit: How the British Ponzi Class Survived the EU Referendum, I wrote:

It is hatred that is being promoted – not tolerance. There is even the ridiculous situation where, in July 2016, cribbing a radical protest movement in the USA set up in response to police shootings, a Black Lives Matter movement sprang up in Britain to hold protests and marches in London, Bristol and Liverpool. In August 2016, chanting, ‘No justice, no peace,’ a bunch of Black Lives Matter protestors chained themselves together on approach roads to Heathrow and Birmingham airports. The police arrested ten. Natalie Jeffers, the leader of Black Lives Matter, was funded by taxpayers to tour the world and make speeches about feminism. While a number of white colleagues were demonstrating in September, Jeffers was on her way to a £200-per-night hotel in Brazil. She gave a speech on ‘the state of our feminist movements’ at a black feminist forum event of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development. Her income came from the overseas aid budget. Given the size and largesse of British overseas aid, it is hardly surprising that those in the hard left are determined to milk it. They will be attracted to it like flies to a cow’s backside.

In another example, in June 2017, 14 police officers were injured in a riot in East London after fake news stories were circulated about the death of Edir ‘Edson’ Frederico Da Costa, who died in hospital six days after being stopped by police. Da Costa’s cousin, Larissa Dos Santos, claimed on Facebook:

‘He was brutally beaten to death and left in the hospital nameless and in a coma. Little did we know the extent of the damage until we received the list of injuries he sustained, which included a fractured skull, a fallen voice box and a ruptured bladder to name a few. Up till now we still don’t have the names of the arresting office [sic] that murdered my cousin.’

The police claimed that Da Costa fell ill because he had ‘swallowed a large quantity of drugs’ after being stopped. The IPCC issued a statement saying that a pathologist had found ‘no injuries to suggest severe force was used’, and they denied that Da Costa had suffered spinal injuries, a broken neck, or bleeding to the brain.

However, protesters from Black Lives Matter and the Socialist Workers Party mounted a demonstration that turned violent. Black Lives Matter had claimed online that the police were ‘guilty of murder’ and posted on Twitter that ‘Riot police inflicting even more violence and brutality on the community. They pushed a pregnant woman on the ground and dragged her. Forestgate trending coz the police beat up a black man so bad he lost his life.’ The Socialist Workers Party newspaper said: ‘At Grenfell Tower we saw many, many people killed because the people at the top treat poor people and black people as unworthy. Here they treated Edson as unworthy. It is the same thing. You only get change when you fight.’

Joshua Virasami, a leading member of Black Lives Matter, posted on Twitter: ‘They killed Edson in his car. They beat him to death and now they are terrorising his people on road. Fuck the police.’ Another leading member, Amina Gichinga, who is also a leader of the group Take Back the City, posted online: ‘The grief, rage, turmoil that I saw at the #JusticeforEdson protest today … this is a community hurting and fighting for justice … People … fail to address the rage of officers who killed Edson.’