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Yesterday (7/11/2012) a delegation of Nationalists descended on Liverpool's St. John's Market along with the Liverpool Echo Building, BBC Merseyside and Joe Anderson's Municipal Buildings in protest of an "alleged" incident on Saturday 3rd November 2012 where four 14-15 year old cadets were abused and assaulted by several "Middle Eastern" store holders and security guards from within St Johns Shopping Centre for being in uniform and selling Poppies on behalf of the RBL and the Poppy Appeal.
The youths were told to leave the market because their uniforms (British Army) offended the Muslim store holders within the centre. Upon investigation it was found that one of the abused, a 14 year old female cadet "allegedly" had her arms twisted and thrown out by what is known to be 2 "Middle Eastern youths" working within the centre.
Originally posted by chemistry
The police won't help.
The incident is currently under investigation KC by Merseyside Police and it was confirmed yesterday by Merseyside Police that abuse towards Poppy sellers on a national scale is massive and there are currently countless incidents being probed by many police forces across the country.
Merseyside Police are not gonna publish this on their website for fear of waking up the British people to the reality of how bad our immigration situation has become.
The incident is currently under investigation KC by Merseyside Police and it was confirmed yesterday by Merseyside Police that abuse towards Poppy sellers on a national scale is massive and there are currently countless incidents being probed by many police forces across the country.
Originally posted by Kandinsky
There was even a 'security guard' who was the fattest porker I've seen in a bomber jacket for years. He literally was incapable of standing unaided let alone protecting the little veteran inside.
Security is being provided for young poppy sellers in Bradford this year after some were attacked last year – the first such incidents in the British Legion’s history.
Young Army cadets will have chaperones to protect them from repeats of the abuse some suffered while collecting for the charity.
Last year the Telegraph & Argus reported how Bethany Holmes, then 13, of the Allerton Army Cadet Force, was one of three teenagers selling remembrance poppies outside The Range store in Girlington, Bradford, when a group of youths began giving the sellers “abuse”.
Her mum Christine said one of them took a poppy from the box, spat on it and tried to give it to her daughter, before spitting at her three times, twice on her jacket and once on her cheek.
Telegraph & Argus
Originally posted by Kandinsky
So no, I think the story is just one more exaggerated account of a minor incident - if it happened.