Facebook users rally around A. Meadows

Alfie Meadows was attacked by the police and sustained brain injury during London protests on Thursday.

Source: Press TV
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More than one thousand people on social networking website Facebook have voiced their support for the 20-year-old student who suffered brain injury at the hands of the British police during Thursday protests in London.

Alfie Meadows was knocked unconscious after the police hit him with a truncheon on the head leaving him with bleeding on his brain.

The philosophy student at Middlesex University was attacked by officers outside Westminster Abbey as he tried to leave the area and lost consciousness on the way to hospital where he undergone a three-hour operation.

A group calling themselves “Justice for Alfie Meadows” called on anyone who may have seen Meadows being hit by the police contact the Internal Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) which is leading an investigation into the case.

Those setting up the group also called on everyone “to spread the word” saying “we need as many people as possible to hear about Alfie and to come together to call for justice”.

Another group set up under the name Alfie Meadows Rally had called for a gathering outside Kensington and Chelsea hospital on Friday to protest the police brutality against Meadows.

Paul Raymond Gowler who created the group said in a post that “if you tolerate this your children will be next”.

Hundreds of people also joined other groups including “250.000 People Say: We are Alfie Meadows” to slam the police heavy-handed techniques which resulted in the brain injury to the Middlesex University student.