REACHING THE SUMMIT

Arriving at Excel Centre - the venue for the day's G20 Summit - at around 10.30am, police had cordoned off a pen on Tidal Basin Road where a rowdy group of Ethiopians took the lead in protesting over the fate of the Ogaden people who are being targeted by the military. By about 1pm the only piece of argy-bargy to be seen was the outing of a known white supremacist who was confronted by Antifa activists and rapidly sent on his way after video-ing his 'outers'.

Half the assembled - numbering about 3-400 then decided to head into the city to Battle of the Bank II, joining up with the thousand or more already there to pay tribute to Ian Tomlinson who died during the protests the previous evening. In the baking afternoon sun tempers flared as police eventually penned in four separate cordons of protesters. Bottles and missiles were thrown as the all new dark blue police riot vans made a blatant posturing parade down Threadneedle St. This was followed by repeated charges from police horses as protesters took over the junction of roads at the front of the Bank. Tame compared to the previous day but at least the City came to a stilted standstill for the day.

By 4pm it looked like the cops had things sewn up with the four cordons of previously up for it activists diminished as people drifted to pubs to regroup...Oh well, the Summer of Rage is a marathon not a sprint...