Muesli-hating mob attack hipster cafe

Alan Keery, who co-owns the Cereal Killer Cafe along with his brother Garry, told the Evening Standard: “There were children there – they were terrified”. “The staff were absolutely terrified”.

One officer was injured after a bottle hit him in the face.

“I can’t agree with what they’re doing, the way they are dealing with gentrification”.

On Saturday night, around 200 protesters wreaked havoc through East London carrying torches, paint and missiles, in a violent and misdirected anti-gentrification riot that coalesced under the #f***parade hashtag.

During an interview for Channel 4 in December past year, Gary Keery took exception to a question by a reporter who asked about the affordability of the cereal they’re selling in an impoverished area. Its our fault, artists like me go to these kind of areas, then the architects follow, the developers, the hipsters etc. The problem is social cleansing. They had torches and pigs’ heads.

But Keery said he thought the attacks were “an absolute joke”. Calling the quest a street party, F**k Parade’s demonstration grew so large that the nearby Old Street Roundabout had to be blocked off from London traffic.

“Tonight we were attacked with paint and fire by an angry mob of 200”.

Meanwhile, the other side of this protest is sticking up for small businesses in this or any other area of London.

It appeared that protesters splattered paint on the cafe’s windows.

Around a thousand people marched around Bethnal Green Road and Brick Lane, also smashing a window at a Marsh and Parsons estate agent. He said customers and staff barricaded the doors as the establishment fell under attack.

The cafe called the mob’s actions, defacing the shopfront, on Twitter a hate crime, but said it’s open for business as usual.

A Twitter account run by organisers F*** Parade shared a picture of the cafe with the message: “Cereal cafe”. £5 for cereal when people are starving. F*** gentrification, F*** cutesy boutiques and coffee shops. Shoreditch’s Cereal Killer Cafe is just the latest staging ground for public unrest over gentrification.