Cereal cafe attacked in East London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033s7xb

A cereal cafe was attacked in Eat London due to their prices being ridiculously high. The mob, who were wearing pig masks said they were selling cereal up to £5 and stated that it was ‘pathetic’. The protestors smashed the windows, threw missiles and wrote the word scum on the cafe. It was said around 200 people were involved, who were anti capitalist. They named their selves the f*ck parade and claimed that they were protesting against unaffordable housing in east London.

A witness who was being interviewed told the reporters that the riot became so out of control, she had to barricade herself in her shop for two hours. She said she witnessed dogs running away as they were clearly frightened but the people involved in the protest were careless and were hurting them. The witness said that a person looked like they were about to tear the dog in half.

Protests are always making the news, but what makes this one absurd is what the protestors was rioting for. Usually, it’s against discrimination like the Ferguson riots which was over the police brutality on African Americans. However, this is a protest which got way out of hand over something trivial.

The news reporters took the story very seriously as they were having formal discussion with witnesses. It shows awareness to the public in east London that there is a lot of anger and violence continuing as an interviewee said there are lots of people protesting against unaffordable housing. There are many homeless people in London and the expensive housing strikes anger for the homeless.

The story isn’t biased as people were claiming to have understood their point. However, their actions were uncalled for and unnecessary.