Violence broke out in Dudley Town Centre in UK this afternoon as tensions boiled over at the EDL protest. English Defence League members threw bottles, cans, coins and pieces of wood as they pulled down metal railings. Police in riot gear tried to contain the protestors who were situated in Flood Street car park, before members breached the fences.
The protest appeared to begin peacefully as hundreds of EDL supporters were led to the protest site by police just after 2pm. But within an hour back-up teams of police officers were called to the scene alongside the police dog unit to deal with the supporters as they scaled lampposts and pulled down the safety barriers.
Officers were also forced to use CS Gas to contain some of the unruly crowds, who were in the town to demonstrate against the planned £18 million mosque in nearby Hall Street.
Some supporters were treated at the scene for injuries, including one of the EDL leaders who suffered a head wound in the incident.
EDL members then breached the exit barriers as police attempted to escort them back to their coaches, with hundreds seen running towards the town centre and the Hall Street site as others made their way to the Unite Against Fascism protest which was taking place in Stafford Street.
EDL had a smiliar protest before in many other cities in UK and showing up Israel flags along and they state that they are not racist! Many people meets at the same place for protest.
Do you think time for the EDL to be checked? What EDL wants and who are they? Why they have Israel flags while they try to keep Britian out of facism? In many protest Gordon Brown has been blamed by EDL to get more supporters. They always forget many other countries has Church is well but dont know what they trying to do in UK.
