happening right now

looks like white chavs v local ethnic population

loads of police

This is what people there are saying happened.

A load of those wasters who hang around dev green drinking special brew all day kicked it off with some somali lads and the somali lads glassed one of them very seriously so they went mental and chased the somali lads towards springfield school.

The area around west.one car park entrance is cordoned off.

Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.

Originally posted by ultracynic


Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.

utracynic by name and by nature..............

realist

do you walk across the green every day like i do?

if people are allowed to drink themselves into a stupour on devonshire green then you are bound to get some "you looking at my bird" type kick offs

They've now roped off half the green...

at the weekend my son and his freinds were on there he,s one of the k korp goths they were sitting there when a group of chavs ran across and kicked his mate in the face ,when my son and freinds got up and called the police they said were coming back with mates and baseball bats etc i wonder if its the same trouble makers if so i hope thy get all they deserve

my sons just got back from there, he has alot of it on film.
says it was not initially between somalis and whites but initially between white youths, one wasted...

Originally posted by joffandanmum
my sons just got back from there, he has alot of it on film.
says it was not initially between somalis and whites but initially between white youths, one wasted...

The police had one guy on the floor who kept kicking his legs, and they musta kept him on the floor for the 5-10 minutes it took us to walk around the taped off area... maybe that was the drunken dude.

the one on the floor was the injured one.
the assailant was white with no top on my son has him on film being chased by a copper runnning away

There is a report on the Sheffield Indymedia website

Originally posted by abmas
There is a report on the Sheffield Indymedia website

Link please?

sorry, I am a very very occasional caller here and when I tried to post the link I was informed I hadn't made enough posts to permit that - maybe I soon will have.

...meanwhile google Sheffield and Indymedia and look in the newswire column on the right

I've just looked at the indymedia org uk sheffield pages and can't see anything there!
is there another website?

Edit: You answered before I posted! Thanks

Links to article here (http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/08/320232.html)

LL200 -

apparently the same restriction that prevents me posting links also stops me pm-ing

at this rate I will soon be over the threshold

Ok - lets try again:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/08/320232.html

Joffandanmum, the police may be interested in your son's video tape, have you given them a call? :thumbsup:

Originally posted by joffandanmum
the assailant was white with no top on my son has him on film being chased by a copper runnning away

Has he offered the film to the police?

They've had a CCTV police camera there all day today ^_^

Does anyone know what actually happened yet and if the person(s) that got hurt is ok?

i am told by my son that the police told him they had all the info they needed.

however we have the guy who did they serious assault being chased by a copper on film, dont know if he caught him.
i will go onto south yorkshire polices web site and offer them the film

what does he look like?

was somebody glassed in a serious way?

makes you laugh that site - its shockingly biased and the comments well are very much ott....

Joke media rather than Indymedia :)

Originally posted by Internetowl
makes you laugh that site - its shockingly biased and the comments well are very much ott....

Joke media rather than Indymedia :)

word.

the reporter there seemed like he was reporting the story he wanted to report regardless of what actually happened

bunch of leftie extremists looking at the rest of the site - fighting back against the Govt / Big Businesses control of the widestream media :)

Bet they are all in MacDonalds at lunchtime as well ;)