Loyalists March Through Glengormley

From Belfast 32CSM.

The PSNI on Tuesday evening showed their true colours yet again in Belfast.

An unwanted loyalist parade was forced through a nationalist area of Glengormley, protected by the PSNI who took a heavy handed approach to residents almost immediately and without provocation.

While the crown forces shoved, lashed out and hemmed in residents, loyalists marched by to the tunes of the Sash and the Famine song, cheering and dancing like drunken clowns while issuing threats.

After the parade had passed the PSNI pulled out only to then do a U-Turn down Church Park to start fights with anyone they could. When challenged by residents on why they thought it appropriate to seek fist fights with locals one PSNI member said "they shouldn't be singing about the IRA".

When locals refused to be lured into this trap the PSNI then left again only to prowl the area cornering children and threatening them if they didn't give information.

Condition G of the parades commission determination for this parade stated that "all participants in and supporters of this parade must behave with due regard to the rights, traditions and feelings of others in the vicinity; refrain from using words or behaviour which could reasonably be perceived as intentionally sectarian, provocative, threatening, abusive, insulting or lewd".

It is clear this determination was just a box ticking exercise as even Belfast city councillors stopped to take selfies in front of hemmed in residents for their Facebook pages stating "there will always be orange feet on our streets".

From the get go the parade going this route was about one thing only; antagonising and intimidating local residents, and the PSNI operation is nothing short of a hike back the days of the RUC.