{"id":7670,"date":"2013-07-23T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:21:32","slug":"british-far-right-clash-with-police-over-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7670","title":{"rendered":"British far-right clash with police over surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7671\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EDL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7671\" alt=\"EDL wants surveillance...\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EDL.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EDL wants surveillance&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Protesters have been injured and a police officer hospitalised with concussion after police and far-right demonstrators clashed at an English Defence League (EDL) rally in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of EDL supporters gathered in the city&#8217;s Centenary Square on Saturday, with Unite Against Fascism members forming a counter-protest in nearby Chamberlain Square.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon after EDL leader Tommy Robinson began his speech to the crowd, protesters started tussling with police, with some pulling down fences around a new University of Birmingham construction site and hurling smashed cobble-stones and bottles at officers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several protesters were seen with blood pouring from their heads after police equipped with riot gear and armed with batons confronted the crowd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Police injured, Broad St bar doors smashed, building site materials thrown at police, shops closed, work lost. Another peaceful EDL protest,&#8221; tweeted Birmingham Labour MP Ian Austin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">West Midlands Police said that four arrests had been made and that 1,000 extra officers had been drafted in before the demonstration to help cope with any disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EDL said they were marching for the reintroduction of CCTV cameras in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook areas of the city. The cameras were originally installed as a counter-terrorism measure, but removed in 2011. &#8211; ibtimes.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have been injured and a police officer hospitalised with concussion after police and far-right demonstrators clashed at an English Defence League (EDL) rally in Birmingham. Hundreds of EDL supporters gathered in the city&#8217;s Centenary Square on Saturday, with Unite Against Fascism members forming a counter-protest in nearby Chamberlain Square. Soon after EDL leader Tommy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;British far-right clash with police over surveillance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,123],"tags":[4041,4190,3355,1946],"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-birmingham","tag-edl","tag-surveillance","tag-uk"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EDL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7673,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/7673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}