Three People Stabbed, 15 Officers Assaulted and 90 People Arrested on Opening ‘Family Day’ of Notting Hill Carnival
The opening ‘Family Day’ of this year’s Notting Hill Carnival got off to a violent, crime-ridden start, with three people being stabbed and 90 people arrested.The Mailhas more.
The Met said they are aware of three stabbings which have seen a 32 year-old woman in hospital in a life-threatening condition and a 29 year-old man in hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The condition of a 24 year-old man who was stabbed in currently unknown.
The 90 arrests made so far are for the following offences: four sexual offences, 10 assaults on emergency workers, 18 possessions of an offensive weapon, eight possessions of class A drugs, 13 possessions of class B drugs, five possessions of other drugs, four possessions of nitrous oxide, eight possessions of drugs with intent to supply, one theft, six assaults, four robberies, one public order offence and eight “other offences”. …
Notting Hill is one of the longest-running street parties in the U.K. and celebrates Caribbean culture with vividly costumed performers taking part in a parade through the streets with dancing and music.
But carnivals in the past have also been marred by violence. There were eight stabbings and 275 arrests at the 2023 event and 7,000 Met Police officers are set to be deployed onto the streets of Kensington.
Despite the high number of arrests and heavy police presence, a retired Met Police detective chief inspector has alleged that officers are hesitant to make arrests during the event for fears of being called racist.
Mike Neville spoke to the Daily Telegraph where he leaned into the growing conspiracy theory that two-tier policing exists in Britain.
He said: “If the behaviour of the Notting Hill Carnival was replicated at football matches or any other event it would be banned.”
Stop Press: The 32 year-old mother stabbed at the carnival and now in hospital fighting for her life was with her young child when she was attacked, reveals the Telegraph.
I lived in London 2002-2010. I never felt the need to attend.
A left wing friend of mine from Berlin (previously West Berlin) wanted to demonstrate his diversity and inclusivity and definitely not racist self by attending one year, and returned looking a little shellshocked. He quietly mumbled something about the Love Parade being a lot better.
Mind you, I never felt the need to attend the Love Parade, either.
I lived in London 2002-2010. I never felt the need to attend. I lived in London for a good long while. I went once out of curiosity to see what all the hoo-ha was all about for this ‘amazing street carnival’. It was walking distance from where I lived at the time so no big deal. Bored me f’ing witless. Loud music, decorated flat-bed trucks with bands and costumed dancers and much of the same parading along on foot between trucks. On and on they came – much the same followed by much the same in an interminable tedious procession of the boring succeeded by the tedious followed by the boring. It was like a Groundhog afternoon seeing pretty much the same thing followed by pretty much the same thing on and on. And on and on. And on. It was ‘an experience’ as they say. But so is someone with halitosis. Once experienced there is no desire to repeat it. The people doing the parading seemed to be happy and smiling so perhaps they enjoyed it as they seemed to come every year from around the country. For tourists I am not sure what the attraction might be. A… Read more »
I too went to Notting Hill carnival, when I was 18. I think it was 1984 (the year, not the dystopian vision of the future). The only memories I have of it are Aswad playing, which was recorded for a live LP, a young Caribbean woman rubbing her backside against my crotch for a minute or two, and later on in the evening a posse forcing their way through a tightly packed crowd and me then feeling a hand in my pocket while being unable to move my arms. When I said “there’s nothing in there, mate” he tore my pocket from hip to thigh. Needless to say, I never went back.
I’ve no idea why anyone would want to go to this ‘Stabfest’ anymore, let alone take their kids, given that it’s the same story year after year. But is this meant to become the norm now? Are we supposed to accept ‘knife culture’ as part of our British values because it’s become so commonplace now, like the ticking of a wall clock, you end up getting used to it because it’s forever present and not going anywhere? Gradually the abnormal becomes normal as we get desensitized over time, ”just another knife attack”….how very banal, like the sun rising in the morning. We used to enjoy going to the Leeds West Indian parade when I lived nearby. Great fun, great jerk chicken, no violence and no low-class weirdos dry humping each other en masse, like some sort of bizarre bonobo mating ritual. Meanwhile, in Germany, who’s surprised to hear that the Syrian jihadi is a failed asylum seeker who should already have been deported? No, thought not; ”A failed Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested after he said he was responsible for the knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival in the city of Solingen on… Read more »
zebedee
1 year ago
where he leaned into the growing conspiracy theory
Hmm, I’m not sure they do expect us to believe it – just so long as we don’t actually contradict them.
We’ve always been at war with EurEastAsia.
Heretic
1 year ago
So were the 90 people arrested immediately released on bail, like the Third World ethnics who attacked police in Manchester and elsewhere? Even though in previous years, Celebrators of Afro-Caribbean Culture were sexually assaulting female police officers?
This is in marked contrast to the British Patriots protesting against the Mass Stabbing of Their Children, who were reportedly all refused bail and told that they would be held in remand for months or years, and then get harsher prison terms, unless they pleaded “guilty”. So most of them pleaded “guilty”, as advised by…?
Our village fete is unlikely to go ahead next year. It is not that the event has become too violent, but none of the younger generation can be a*sed to organise it.
It is no great loss as it has become a shadow of its former self with the intrusion of health and safety and the influence of DEI, plus the legacy of Covid.
Community spirit has also diminished since the proceeds used to go into a village fund, whereas each organisation keeps any profit for its own use.
Perhaps they were white and were absolutely, definitely, Faaah Rite.
bertieboy
1 year ago
….. or if you fancy a nice family friendly day out with the children and you don’t want to risk your life, you could travel to a pride event and have your child ask you something like ‘why is that man dressed in a black leather dog suit walking along the street on a lead’. This ‘dog’ was seen by my grandson yesterday while driving through our city centre and past this family friendly event – said he couldn’t get home quick enough! The only thing ‘family friendly’ was the ice cream van.
Give me strength!
Heretic
1 year ago
But at least we can all sleep safe in our beds, knowing that one Englishwoman from Cheshire was arrested, bailed and awaits trial for posting misinformation online about the Mass Stabber.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani Muslim who was also arrested for posting misinformation about the Mass Stabber was let off by a Pakistani Muslim judge:
Speaking of which, why has the media gone all quiet about the British Patriots that were being sent to prison every day by judges without trial by jury, and their faces and crimes featured everywhere? They all seem to have disappeared!
Heretic
1 year ago
Look at all those MILLIONS OF FEATHERS on the Repulsive Pornographic Costumes! More like an orgy than a festival, and one wearer said no costume is worn more than once. Every year, new costumes. Where are all the Vegan Protestors?
They don’t look like ordinary chicken feathers to me. Or goose or duck feathers, but many are extremely long, and many look like ostrich feathers.
Where do they all come from, I wonder? Who supplies them? Who pays for them? What do you bet there’s a special British-Taxpayer-Funded charity or government “diversity grant” to pay for them all.
Wouldn’t it be tremendously profitable for the countries of the Caribbean to hold the Carnival there instead of here?
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So another year of “largely peaceful ” then?
Notting Hill is one of the longest-running street fights
partiesin the U.K.A bit like the New Forest Show where there are always largely peaceful stabbings and rioting.
My late father served 30 years in the Met, retiring in the early ’80s. He got sent to police the Nottinghill Carnival in the late ’70s/early ’80s.
Several of his colleagues were assaulted then and what he had to say about the “event” wouldn’t be printable today.
It’s a celebration of criminality, drug-taking and violence …. and always has been.
Exactly, nothing new here.
I lived in London 2002-2010. I never felt the need to attend.
A left wing friend of mine from Berlin (previously West Berlin) wanted to demonstrate his diversity and inclusivity and definitely not racist self by attending one year, and returned looking a little shellshocked. He quietly mumbled something about the Love Parade being a lot better.
Mind you, I never felt the need to attend the Love Parade, either.
I lived in London 2002-2010. I never felt the need to attend. I lived in London for a good long while. I went once out of curiosity to see what all the hoo-ha was all about for this ‘amazing street carnival’. It was walking distance from where I lived at the time so no big deal. Bored me f’ing witless. Loud music, decorated flat-bed trucks with bands and costumed dancers and much of the same parading along on foot between trucks. On and on they came – much the same followed by much the same in an interminable tedious procession of the boring succeeded by the tedious followed by the boring. It was like a Groundhog afternoon seeing pretty much the same thing followed by pretty much the same thing on and on. And on and on. And on. It was ‘an experience’ as they say. But so is someone with halitosis. Once experienced there is no desire to repeat it. The people doing the parading seemed to be happy and smiling so perhaps they enjoyed it as they seemed to come every year from around the country. For tourists I am not sure what the attraction might be. A… Read more »
I too went to Notting Hill carnival, when I was 18. I think it was 1984 (the year, not the dystopian vision of the future). The only memories I have of it are Aswad playing, which was recorded for a live LP, a young Caribbean woman rubbing her backside against my crotch for a minute or two, and later on in the evening a posse forcing their way through a tightly packed crowd and me then feeling a hand in my pocket while being unable to move my arms. When I said “there’s nothing in there, mate” he tore my pocket from hip to thigh. Needless to say, I never went back.
I’ve no idea why anyone would want to go to this ‘Stabfest’ anymore, let alone take their kids, given that it’s the same story year after year. But is this meant to become the norm now? Are we supposed to accept ‘knife culture’ as part of our British values because it’s become so commonplace now, like the ticking of a wall clock, you end up getting used to it because it’s forever present and not going anywhere? Gradually the abnormal becomes normal as we get desensitized over time, ”just another knife attack”….how very banal, like the sun rising in the morning. We used to enjoy going to the Leeds West Indian parade when I lived nearby. Great fun, great jerk chicken, no violence and no low-class weirdos dry humping each other en masse, like some sort of bizarre bonobo mating ritual. Meanwhile, in Germany, who’s surprised to hear that the Syrian jihadi is a failed asylum seeker who should already have been deported? No, thought not; ”A failed Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested after he said he was responsible for the knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival in the city of Solingen on… Read more »
What a snotty journalist
“leaned into” –weird turn of phrase. And how is it a conspiracy theory?
Yeah, but the police will deny that there is two-tier policing.
And expect us to believe it.
Hmm, I’m not sure they do expect us to believe it – just so long as we don’t actually contradict them.
We’ve always been at war with
EurEastAsia.So were the 90 people arrested immediately released on bail, like the Third World ethnics who attacked police in Manchester and elsewhere? Even though in previous years, Celebrators of Afro-Caribbean Culture were sexually assaulting female police officers?
This is in marked contrast to the British Patriots protesting against the Mass Stabbing of Their Children, who were reportedly all refused bail and told that they would be held in remand for months or years, and then get harsher prison terms, unless they pleaded “guilty”. So most of them pleaded “guilty”, as advised by…?
Yep thats your two tier policing/judicial system, lock a granny up, bail an attempted murderer, all in the name of “diversity”
Funny, this didn’t happen at the Twyford Village Fete we went to recently. There weren’t even any police there.
Maybe it was “mostly non-vibrant”?
Our village fete is unlikely to go ahead next year. It is not that the event has become too violent, but none of the younger generation can be a*sed to organise it.
It is no great loss as it has become a shadow of its former self with the intrusion of health and safety and the influence of DEI, plus the legacy of Covid.
Community spirit has also diminished since the proceeds used to go into a village fund, whereas each organisation keeps any profit for its own use.
There you go: It’s the presence of the police wot causes the trouble.
No police? How did they miss this obvious Far Right event?
Mostly peaceful©️ BBC.
Oh, come on now! The three probably deserved it. They’ll be charged with something like resisting robbery while not under the influence.
Perhaps they were white and were absolutely, definitely, Faaah Rite.
….. or if you fancy a nice family friendly day out with the children and you don’t want to risk your life, you could travel to a pride event and have your child ask you something like ‘why is that man dressed in a black leather dog suit walking along the street on a lead’. This ‘dog’ was seen by my grandson yesterday while driving through our city centre and past this family friendly event – said he couldn’t get home quick enough! The only thing ‘family friendly’ was the ice cream van.
Give me strength!
But at least we can all sleep safe in our beds, knowing that one Englishwoman from Cheshire was arrested, bailed and awaits trial for posting misinformation online about the Mass Stabber.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani Muslim who was also arrested for posting misinformation about the Mass Stabber was let off by a Pakistani Muslim judge:
Pakistani Judge Acquits Man over Spreading Misinformation Amid UK Riots (breitbart.com)
Speaking of which, why has the media gone all quiet about the British Patriots that were being sent to prison every day by judges without trial by jury, and their faces and crimes featured everywhere? They all seem to have disappeared!
Look at all those MILLIONS OF FEATHERS on the Repulsive Pornographic Costumes! More like an orgy than a festival, and one wearer said no costume is worn more than once. Every year, new costumes. Where are all the Vegan Protestors?
They don’t look like ordinary chicken feathers to me. Or goose or duck feathers, but many are extremely long, and many look like ostrich feathers.
Where do they all come from, I wonder? Who supplies them? Who pays for them? What do you bet there’s a special British-Taxpayer-Funded charity or government “diversity grant” to pay for them all.
Wouldn’t it be tremendously profitable for the countries of the Caribbean to hold the Carnival there instead of here?