The councillor added, according to the report: “Locals decided to take matters into their own hands. “The first half of the video appears to have been filmed following an incident in Golding Street, E1 that is under investigation.”Īccording to the Standard, a local councillor said that a group of young men armed with machetes have “allegedly targeted innocent people in that area a few times”. The Met said in a statement: “We are aware of a video on social media showing a male who is visibly injured on a street in Tower Hamlets. Police have launched an investigation into separate footage from a vehicle’s dashcam, that shows part of the incident. He was taken to hospital, before he was arrested and held in custody – the Met said. His condition was assessed as not life-threatening but likely life-changing.Ī second man in his 20s was found in nearby Christian Street with a knife wound.
He was rushed to a major trauma unit at a hospital for the injury that police described as a “significant knife wound to the arm”. In footage posted on social media, the man is sitting on the kerb of a pavement holding a tea towel to his arm while surrounded by splatters of his blood.
