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Violent clashes have erupted between police officers and masked protesters who have blocked a coach trying to take migrants from a hotel to the Bibby Stockholm barge.
In shocking footage taken from the scene, police can be seen scuffling with protesters and making arrests, forcibly removing activists from the road and placing them in the back of vans.
In one clip, an officer can be seen pushing a man who is thrown back violently onto the road whilst in another a female police officer is seen wrestling with a masked cyclist who allegedly assaulted a TV news team on location.
The protest began shortly after 8am this morning when activists formed a human chain before letting down its tyres and hurling Lime bikes under its path to prevent it leaving.
In the absence of police action, protesters were seen chanting, playing music on the pavements and sitting in the road smoking roll up cigarettes and drinking tonic wine.
The driver of the coach was 'shaken up' by the incident and has been escorted out of the vehicle.
Violent clashes have erupted between police officers and masked protesters in Peckham
In one clip, an officer can be seen pushing a man who is thrown back violently onto the road
A female police officer was seen wrestling with a masked cyclist who allegedly assaulted a TV news team on location
The demonstrators surrounded the coach in a human chain shortly after it arrived at Peckham Road bus stop at around 8am
Dozens of uniformed police officers have descended on the scene of the Peckham demonstration
The Metropolitan Police have said that they 'have warned the groups that they could be arrested' however as of yet no arrests have been made
The group has let down the tyres of the coach to prevent it from leaving
The activists are chanting, playing music on the pavements and sitting in the road smoking roll up cigarettes and drinking tonic wine
Lime bikes have been wedged underneath the coach to further prevent its exit
The organised group has been chanting 'we will not be moved' and 'refugees are welcome here' whilst police attempt to defuse the situation
The asylum seekers had been told they would be collected on Thursday morning by coach to relocate to the Bibby Stockholm moored at Portland in Dorset
The migrants scheduled to be moved to the government's floating compound in Dorset have been told to remain in the Best Western hotel until the situation has been resolved.
It is believed the coach was set to collect other passengers on its route to Dorset.
The asylum seekers had been told they would be collected on Thursday morning by coach to relocate to the Bibby Stockholm moored at Portland in Dorset.
Explaining their actions, one protester said: 'We are trying to stop police deporting migrants.
'These are human beings who don't deserve to be moved around like cattle. It's state-sponsored human trafficking, that's why we are here.
'Today they are moving them to Bibby Stockholm. We are going to block the method of transporting them.
'We will find any way to stop the coach from moving, whatever that looks like.'
Residents were not so happy however.
One local woman told MailOnline: 'It has disrupted our day, we were wondering why there are so many police officers.
'We've just come from voting. Some of those people are true refugees but the majority I think are not.
'It is frustrating, I don't know how they organise themselves but it's nothing do do with us.'
Another agreed, saying: 'What is this for? It’s not needed. All of these people are not from Peckham.
'I live right round there and when I came outside to buy food this is here - it woke me up in the morning.
'This is not needed. Do it somewhere else.'
The activists have blocked all entrances and exits to the vehicle
Due to the actions, none of the migrants scheduled to be moved have boarded the coach
When asked how long she will stay the protester, who did not want to be named, added :'As long as I can manage with my job.
'Community action is the only way we will stop this awful laws to be stopped. Just because something is legal doesn't make it moral. Just because something is illegal doesn't make it immoral. '
Kojo Kyerewaa, a coordinator for the protest, told the Guardian: 'Our friends who are at a Home Office hotel got notification that they were going to be taken to the Bibby Stockholm today.
'We know that the residents don't want to leave and we know that the Bibby Stockholm is a dangerous place to put anyone.
'It's unsanitary and one person has taken their own life being there and there's been multiple attempts of suicide by people told that they're going to the Bibby Stockholm.'
According to Kyerewaa, the protest was inspired by a similar one in Margate last week, where a coach was prevented from taking 22 asylum seekers to the barge.
Police are now remonstrating with the protesters who have been inspired by similar actions in Margate
Due to the action the coach has been unable to leave with the migrants
Commenting on the disruption, a spokesman for the Home Office said: 'Accommodation is allocated to asylum seekers on a no-choice basis and asylum seekers can make representations if they believe they are unsuitable to be moved to the
