(UK) Police use CS spray as anti-gentrification protesters mass in Brixton

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The local town hall was stormed by protesters, the window of an estate agents was smashed, and CS spray gas was used to disperse protesters who had gathered at a Brixton police station.

Later police revealed that they had also used CS spray on "a small group of protesters" who had entered Brixton police station at around 4.10pm. Again no one was arrested, although police said on Saturday night that they were continuing to keep a strong presence in the area.

The afternoon began peacefully with housing forming a key focus of the protest: campaigners from Brixton's Cressingham Gardens and Loughborough Park estate waved banners asking for "Social housing, not social cleansing".


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