East London Cereal Cafe Trashed By Torch-Wielding Anti-Gentrifiction Mob

A Shoreditch cafe that serves bowls of cereal has been trashed by a mob of anti-gentrification protesters, who waved torches, threw a smoke bomb and wrote the word ‘SCUM’ on the front window in paint.

“It’s senseless violence, isn’t it? We’ve had some letters through the letterbox saying ‘die hipsters’ and stuff but nothing to this extreme. It just doesn’t make sense … If you want to talk about gentrification and different classes, you don’t go about attacking independent businesses who are putting their whole life on the line to open a business, you go to the conglomerates and big companies.”

The Keery brothers and their customers barricaded themselves in the shop as the demonstration moved in, and at one point, moved patrons downstairs to safety as a protester broke down the door and threw a smoke bomb.