I walked past it a couple of times, I pass by there are a few times a day anyway. It was your usual protein deprived leftists involved rather than some elite urban guerrilla poet collective as they are now presenting. They would not have put up any resistance.
The police were about to go in and about 10 ambulances appeared about 3ish, I'm guessing Sturgeon threatened the police with something and got them to back down. Which shows the issues with having 2 governments, 2 sets of laws and one police force.
Sturgeon lives for this pish. Occupying forces crap. I do wonder if it was a set up and one of them has some dodgy background. I've not read much about it today.
They were trying to get people to go down all day and like 200 people turned up. That says it all.
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Dawn raids work, its why they do them.
Those being deported should have had clear notice that they were to leave the UK. If they had done voluntarily then the expensive raid would not have been needed.
I have no idea why these men's asylum claims failed or why a court ordered their removal but one does rather think we should respect the rule of law. Vigilantism is frequently a mistake.
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Don't *uck around with Glaswegians..
I remember when they beat up some terrorists at the airport.
Yesterday they did this:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...leaving-street
Campaigners have hailed a victory for Glaswegian solidarity and told the Home Office “you messed with the wrong city” as two men detained by UK Immigration Enforcement were released back into their community after a day of protest.
Police Scotland intervened to free the men after a tense day-long standoff between immigration officials and hundreds of local residents, who surrounded their van in a residential street on the southside of Glasgow to stop the detention of the men during Eid al-Fitr.
Staff from Immigration Enforcement are believed to have swooped on a property in Pollokshields early on Thursday morning and detained people.
By mid-morning, a crowd of about 200 protesters surrounded the vehicle, preventing it from driving away, and chanting “these are our neighbours, let them go”, with one protester lying under the van to prevent it driving off.
“I’m just overwhelmed by Glasgow’s solidarity for refugees and asylum seekers,” said Roza Salih, shouting to be heard over the jubilant shouts of “refugees are welcome here”. She added: “This is a victory for the community.”
Salih, who had been at the protest since the morning, is a Kurdish refugee and co-founded the Glasgow Girls campaign in 2005 with fellow pupils to prevent the deportation of a school friend and fight against dawn raids.
Earlier Salih questioned why the widely condemned practice of dawn raids appeared to be recurring 15 years later in Glasgow , the only dispersal city for asylum seekers in Scotland. She also highlighted the jarring impact of carrying out such an action during Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan, in one of the most multicultural areas of the city and within the constituency of the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
As cheering protesters escorted the men to the local mosque, Pinar Aksu, of Maryhill Integration Network said: “They messed with the wrong city.
“This is a revolution of people coming together in solidarity for those who others have turned away from,” she said. Aksu described how hundreds more supporters had arrived at the scene as the afternoon progressed. “This is just the start. When there is another dawn raid in Glasgow, the same thing will happen.”
Aksu added: “For this to happen on Eid, which is meant to be a time of peaceful celebration, is horrifying. It is no coincidence that it is taking place when a new immigration bill is being prepared.
“We also need answers from Police Scotland about their involvement. We have already written to the home secretary asking urgently to clarify whether the decisions to carry out immigration enforcement raids, including dawn raids, represents a change in the policy by the UK government.”
Shortly after 5pm, Police Scotland released an updated statement, saying that Supt Mark Sutherland had decided to release the detained men “in order to protect the safety, public health and wellbeing of those involved in the detention and subsequent protest”. The force asked those at the scene to disperse from the area as soon as possible.
A spokesperson said earlier: “Police Scotland does not assist in the removal of asylum seekers. Officers are at the scene to police the protest and to ensure public safety.”
The second dawn raid in Glasgow within a month appears to show a further escalation of the UK’s hostile environment policy. While the SNP government has argued strongly for Scotland to have control over its own immigration policy, not least because of the country’s unique depopulation pressures, it remains reserved to Westminster.
Sources told the Guardian the immigration status of the individuals detained was unclear.
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