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The mood at Hyde Park on Tuesday night (19 July) started as a happy one. It was the hottest day of the year and hundreds of youths had gathered in the central London park after responding to 'link-up' adverts on Instagram.Dozens of mobile speakers were set up on the grass and playlists were being blasted into the balmy summer air.Why advertise with us"It was positive," one of the revellers told IBTimes UK. "Young adults and teenagers running around together. Playing music through speakers, playing games, spraying water pistols and sitting on the grass in groups."However, by the time dusk fell three people – including one police officer – had been stabbed, bottles were launched and cries of "Black Lives Matter" and "f*** the police" erupted. A nearby McDonalds in Marble Arch had also reportedly been looted .How did a serene summer evening descend into violent chaos? ...
Hottest night of the year sparks 12 hours of violent flares in London: Police locked in tense stand offs with gangs of teenagers as four youths are knifed and five police are injured Five people - including a police officer - stabbed last night in London at three different events across the capital Around 4,000 youths descended on Hyde Park for water fight and 'bashment' music festival but event turned violent Five officers injured after they tried moving people on and seizing sound equipment, causing fighting to break out Two revellers were also stabbed during chaos and are both - like the constables - in hospital receiving treatment Meanwhile two 16-year-old boys were also stabbed and a supermarket ransacked in Burgess Park, Southwark Police attempting to shut down an illegal block party in Stamford Hill, Hackney, had bottles thrown at themBy Keiligh Baker and Euan McLelland For MailOnlinePublished: 16:54 EST, 19 July 2016 | Updated: 09:54 EST, 20 July 2016 [excerpt] ...Tempers flared as police tried to disperse the 4,000-strong crowd and began seizing sound equipment as a minority chanted 'Black Lives Matter'.Meanwhile, two 16-year-old boys were stabbed at another pre-arranged water fight in Burgess Park, Southwark, last night while a nearby supermarket was ransacked by a group of 200 people. Neither of the injured boys suffered life-threatening injuries, although one remains in hospital.And a block party on the Stamford Estate in Hackney also turned violent, as officers were pelted with missiles.One terrified onlooker wrote on Facebook: 'I can't believe what I witnessed in Marble Arch whilst passing by on the bus.'Young boys running around with large machete looking knifes, a whole leap of 16, 17, 18 year old girls & boys literally scattered everywhere, I was scared for all their lives.'And what really shook me up was seeing the young black boy looked about 17 outside Hyde park with a stab wound to his chest.'It was so heartbreaking, I called the ambulance from the bus as it literally just happened & just to make sure but no way was I getting off that bus it was so erratic buses had to stop, I saw police & no ambulance.' ...
Hyde Park stabbings: How Instagram link-up descended into cries of 'Black Lives Matter' and 'f*** the police'Three people were stabbed - including one police officer - as tempers boiled over on hottest day of the year. By Lewis Dean July 20, 2016 12:25 BSTInternational Business Times
