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London's police commissioner on Sunday defended her officers' actions and said she didn't intend to resign, after coming under heavy criticism for the way police treated some protesters during a vigil for a woman whom one of the force's own officers is accused of murdering.

Crowd of around 1,500 people gathered at Clapham Common in south London  They attended to remember  33-year-old marketing executive Sarah Everard But scuffles broke out as police surrounded a bandstand covered in flowers Officers blasted for using heavy-handed tactics critics dubbed quasi military  Footage shows rows of officers yelling move back as they shove protesters Clips showed demonstrators being hauled off by police officers amid screams

The disappearance of Sarah Everard has provoked a huge outpouring of grief and dismay in Britain

London police faced a backlash from the public on Sunday and an official inquiry into their actions after using heavy-handed tactics to break up an outdoor vigil for a woman whose suspected killer is a police officer.

London’s police commissioner has defended her officers’ actions and said she did not intend to resign amid a backlash over the way police treated some protesters during a vigil for a woman whose suspected murderer is a police officer. London police faced heavy criticism from the public and politicians on Sunday for their heavy-handed tactics in breaking up the vigil. The disappearance of Sarah Everard, 33, as she walked home on the evening of March 3, has provoked a huge outpouring of grief...

London's Metropolitan Police defended its handling of a high-profile protest calling for greater public safety for women, after male officers were seen scuffling with the crowd and physically restraining female demonstrators.

by Bethany Rielly WOMEN have defiantly organised protests after police attacked mourners at a vigil for Sarah Everard in south London on Saturday.  The Met Police’s handling of the candle-lit gathering on Clapham Common, where crowds paid tribute to the 33-year-old woman who was allegedly murdered by one of the force’s officers, has prompted an outpouring of condemnation and calls for Met commissioner Cressida Dick to resign. Officers were seen dragging women away and kneeling on the back ...

London police faced a backlash from the public and an official inquiry into their actions after using heavy-handed tactics to break up an outdoor vigil for a woman whose suspected killer is a police officer.

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, the Minister in charge of policing, reportedly orders an independent inquiry after questions are left unanswered in an initial police report.

HELEN O’CONNOR reports from Saturday’s vigil for Sarah Everard, where mourning women found themselves victims of a brutal display of state force