I thought readers would be interested in this eyewitness account from Roberta - Head of EDL Jewish Division.
This is what happened on that day, as far as I know (But please note that there may be other witnesses accounts as well, and I am trying to get all the facts, so that we can complain to the police and the State, on how they treated us).
We arrived at Dudley and most shops were closed or boarded up. All the city dustbins have been covered with polyprop material. The police were divided in sections and we made our way to the car park, where we would hold our demo and do our speeches.
When we got there, there were about 1,000 of EDL protesters there, but all scattered. Some climbed the top of the toilet roof, and some were just walking about enjoying the day, and preparing for the demo.
The remaining coaches from several divisions, including Luton and London divisions, arrived later and due to this, they were not allowed to join us. The police had used metal gates to close the whole road leading up to the car park. So these guys got separated from us. And since the police also fenced up the whole are, most were unable to join too.
There were about 600 - 800 of them in this group.
We played music, did our speeches and everything was very peaceful up to then. After the speeches, some of the EDL boys started running and we didn't know what was happening.
As it turns out, the EDL guys that were inside the car park with us, tried to get the police to allow the other members to come and join us in the car park but were received with BLOWS TO THEIR HEADS!!
I saw this 17 year old boy, Craig Molyneux from the WIGAN division, who had blood all over his face, and his head was bleeding profusely. I walked up to him, dragged him to where the stage had been, and cleaned his head with some tissue, and then I saw the size of the gash on his head. I was shocked.
EDL Jewish Division
We, the English Defence League Jewish Division, support the British Armed Forces, the IDF and the British people.
We are English, we love England, and we are committed to combat racism, fascism, anti-semitism, the biased media, and uninformed politicians.
We are here to fight for all people - Jews in England in particular - against attacks by pro-Islamic, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel media propaganda and lies, relating to Jews, Jewish culture and beliefs, and against blood-libels propagated by the left, Nazis and Muslims.
We are committed to waking up the sleeping Jewish press, e.g: The Jewish Chronicle, to the threat of Muslim attacks on Judaism, Zionism and to Muslim attempts to delegitimise Jews, the Jewish state of Israel and to force, by stealth and overt means, sharia law on England.
Our EDL units have gays, transgender, Black, Sikhs, Hindus, Jews and ex-Muslims (apostates) members. We are professionals of ALL classes!
We are the only organisation in the UK that demonstrates against Muslim violence and discrimination against women, such as forced marriages, underage marriage, female genital mutilation and honour killings. Not one so-called feminist has spoken out against these terrible things, preferring to collude with male Muslims and respect these appalling acts as “culture”!
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