‘They gave us no warning, they came with a whole riot squad for homeless people. It was horrible can you imagine? Around 100 riot police were deployed to evict people from a homeless shelter in east London on Thursday.
‘They gave us no warning, they came with a whole riot squad for homeless people. It was horrible can you imagine?
On April 30, residents were issued an eviction notice. But the AWS group decided they would not obey it because of the need to provide housing.The AWS said six residents were survivors of a fatal house fire in Shadwell in early March, who had been provided with temporary accommodation by Tower Hamlets council which is believed to have ended.As police issued a dispersal notice to the residents and protesters, cops chased and threw to the ground some people who tried to escape.
But the Met defended its heavy-handed response, with Police Superintendent Andy Port saying that despite officers having ‘sympathy’ for the homeless people in the shelter, they were breaking the law.
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