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'Black Lives Matter' comes to the UK
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08-05-2016, 06:59 AM
Scott McD
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'Black Lives Matter' comes to the UK
Thanks Obama.
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Protesters from the Black Lives Matter group brought UK transport routes to a standstill this morning by laying down on motorways, blocking the entrances to airports and stopping public transport.
The demonstrators are part of the British wing of a campaign set up in the US to protest about black Americans being shot by police.
Activists in Britain today chained themselves together and stood across approach roads to Heathrow and Birmingham airports, while in the centre of Nottingham, four protesters lay across tram tracks.
The coordinated actions across the country caused chaos for hundreds of people trying to catch holiday flights and on their way to work.
In Birmingham, an ambulance was delayed as paramedics tried to get a patient to Heartlands Hospital along the blocked A45
The chaos comes at one of the busiest times of the year for airports, with 100,000 passengers due to fly out of Heathrow today as families head off on their summer holidays.
Black Lives Matter UK tweeted this morning: 'We call a nationwide #Shutdown: 05.08.16. #Shutdown racism. #Shutdown violence. #Shutdown borders. #BlackLivesMatter'
Pictures posted on the organisations Twitter feed show protesters lying in a row across the road beneath a banner which says: 'This is a crisis.'
Video footage shows police officers negotiating with the groups, while chants of 'black lives matter' ring out.
There were scuffles as motorists remonstrated with the group with vehicles queued up bumper to bumper in west London and the West Midlands
All that travel disruption today for nothing. Stay out of trouble here and guess what happens? Yup, nothing.
What a waste of police time and money...
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