This weekend, a vigil at Clapham Common in memory of Sarah Everard and other victims of violence against women saw police pinning women to the ground. Patsy Stevenson, a student who says she only went to the vigil to lay a candle, pay respects and show solidarity, was “pushed to the ground forcefully” by “two very large male officers”, and arrested. She said the vigil “turned very scary very quickly”, and she was “terrified”.
This was met with horror, and on Sunday there were protests against the violence used. ‘Kill The Bill’ protests also began at New Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police Headquarters, against the new proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which would affect how we can protest.
A memorial commemorating the Battle of Britain was daubed with graffiti during last night s anti-police protests in Westminster.
The letters ACAB - All Cops Are B s - were scrawled above a list honoring the airmen who died in the Second World War battle.
The word racist was also written under Winston Churchill s immortal remarks following the fighting that never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed, by so many, to so few.
The protests were sparked by the murder of Sarah Everard and are being led by a feminist group accused of hijacking her death.
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