Some of the bereaved tried to break down the gate, others to scale the walls.
The protesters hopped the fences and broke down the gate, surrounding the police and eventually forcing them to surrender.
But the way to preserve great education is to pull down the gates.
"At college in the 60s, when they were tearing down the gates, I was defending the gates.
He adds that when he asks Chinese friends whether this is legal, they laugh and tell him that authorities periodically request that local governments take their gates down; the gates come down, but six months or a year later, they come back.
And last year, more than 200 of them broke down the gates of a prison in Riau province and escaped.
All these inmates, still in their chains, escape from this jail, and they were breaking down the gate of this jail, and crawling in their chains over this gate to escape.
If you kettle 1000's of commuters through 2 small doors and lock down every single gate, this happens #londonbridge pic.twitter.com/Ouqrs15nVM Network Rail's route managing director for the South East, Dave Ward, described the situation for commuters last night as "very tough".
"How do we get down to the gate?" This is the airport where in just under 1,000 days thousands of Paralympic athletes and spectators will be arriving.
