Dangerous BLM UK leader Sasha Johnson shot, critically injured.
Black Lives Matter UK leader Sasha Johnson is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot in London. A shooting is unusual. There aren’t very many guns in London.
She rose in prominence last year for her advocacy of the creation of an armed black militia, the abolishment of police, and the overthrowing of capitalism, Andy Ngo reported.
#BLM leader Sasha Johnson is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot in London. She rose in prominence last year for her advocacy of the creation of an armed black militia, the abolishment of police & the overthrowing of capitalism. pic.twitter.com/Q9doTLPCvw
Last modified on Mon 24 May 2021 10.33 EDT
Detectives investigating the shooting of the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson believe she was not the intended target, and are trying to track down those who left her fighting for her life.
Johnson was shot in the head while in the garden of a south London property early on Sunday morning at a gathering of 20 to 40 people.
Detectives are investigating whether somebody else at the gathering was the intended target, and Johnson was hit by mistake, or whether the shooting was indiscriminate.
The police do not believe the shooting was targeted or linked to her activism at this stage. They urged people to avoid speculating as to the motive or the circumstances behind the shooting.
24 May 2021
Supporters of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson blamed the media for her shooting during a vigil held outside of the hospital where she remains in critical condition.
A vigil held in the Ruskin Park bandstand in Lambeth, London on Monday afternoon which was promoted by the official Black Lives Matter UK organisation saw around one hundred well-wishers gather to support Sasha Johnson, the self-described “Black Panther of Oxford” who was shot in the head in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A recording of the vigil captured by an amateur livestreamer showed a speaker saying: “I want to say to some of the media here, you guys caused some of this shit.”