Beside St. James's Park, Thomas Evans, eyes bloodshot, shouted hoarsely at the core members of the London Communications Agency around him: "Don't run!"
"Think of your starving children. Think of your loved ones who died in pain because they didn't have money for treatment."
"We can't submit to these executioners. Stand with me and block them."
"For our future, for freedom and human rights, don't run!"
Immediately, a dozen or so ragged workers gathered around him.
Most of these were people whose families had perished, or who had lost their jobs, and were therefore filled with courage.
Evans directed the workers to use protest placards as spears, aiming them forward, while those in the back row picked up stones and hurled them at the cavalry.
The charging Volunteer Cavalry were instantly stalled, forced to circle around this group of people.
The nearby protesting crowd, emboldened, also surged toward Evans, quickly gathering two or three hundred people.
