22 police officers hurt in an illegal street party in Brixton overnight

Footage on social media showed a line of police retreating from crowds of people running at them with makeshift weapons on Overton Road near Angell Town Estate in Brixton.

Police said they were called by concerned residents to the illegal street party but were met by a hostile crowd. Twenty-two officers have been injured and police cars smashed up during significant disorder following an illegal street party in Brixton overnight.

Bottles were thrown at the police officers and in one video a man appeared to be brandishing a long pole at them as he said “Back Up”, as another two men were seen carrying a large wooden table before ripping off its legs and running at the police.

Two men also could be seen on top of a police vehicle smashing in the windscreen with a table leg and their feet.