Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Posters calling for violence put up in city park
INFLAMMATORY posters calling for white people, police officers and MPs to be killed have sparked fury in Dundee.
The flyers were discovered by a dog walker in Baxter Park.
Among the messages were “kill a white on sight”, “if they don’t stop kill a cop”, and “all white MPs should hang from trees”.
The walker, who did not wish to be named, said: “I removed these signs from the windows on the pavilion. I went to have a closer look as there has been a lot of A4 signs about the park regarding BLM, but nothing this extreme.
“There was one more about kids that I could not peel off. I removed what I could. There have been a lot of signs, but nothing this bad.”
The flyers, which purport to be from campaigners Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist group Antifa, come weeks after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, in the US.
Outrage and protests have spread across the world, with demonstrations also in the UK.
But, despite the flyers being emblazoned with hashtags appearing to support Black Lives Matter and Antifa, campaigners say someone else is responsible.
Joy Gansh, a local BLM activist, believes the display was created to discredit the movement. She said: “Things like that, after what happened with the George Floyd mural being defaced, I think that’s something a white supremacist would put up to discredit us.
“Nobody that I’ve seen advocating the BLM movement would think that is appropriate.
“My personal opinion is a way to make us seem in the wrong.”
The art student, who plans to organise a BLM march in Dundee soon, believes “white supremacists” are using false posters to encourage violence.
“People who hold those kinds of beliefs aren’t part of this movement,” she added. “This seems like a way to stop us in our tracks and make us seem violent so they can come back with violence.
“We aren’t here for violence, we’re just here for justice and equality in all aspects of life.”
Local Antifa-affiliated campaigners agreed, saying the posters were nothing to do with them.
A spokesman for the Anarchist Collective said: “A genuine BLM activist would not single out someone’s skin colour to talk about police violence and they certainly wouldn’t claim to be Antifa.”
The posters come amid simmering tensions between BLM and their opponents. Earlier this week, a mural depicting George Floyd in the Hilltown was defaced with white supremacist graffiti.
A form of the Celtic Cross was used to obscure Floyd’s face and his name was daubed with paint.
The vandals also scored out the word “black” in “black lives matter”. Members of the local Antifa group responded within hours by covering the graffiti with their own logos.