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Social Share LONDON – Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is critically ill after being shot in the head, her party said. The Taking the Initiative Party said she was being treated in intensive care after being “brutally attacked” in the early hours of Sunday. The 27-year-old has life-threatening injuries following the shooting on Consort Road in Peckham, south London. A vigil was held in Ruskin Park, close to King’s College Hospital, where Johnson is being treated. Well-wishers played African drums and prayed for Johnson to pull through. One speaker told the crowd:...

Published Monday, May 24, 2021 8:24AM EDT (CNN) -- British Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is in critical condition after being shot in the head in London, her political party said on Sunday. "It is with great sadness that we inform you that our own Sasha Johnson has been brutally attacked and sustained a gunshot wound to her head," the Taking the Initiative Party (TTIP) said in a statement. "She is currently in intensive care and in a critical condition." The party said the attack happened "following numerous death threats as a result of her activism." London's M...

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The party said the attack happened "following numerous death threats as a result of her activism." London's Metropolitan Police responded to reports of gunfire in southeast London about 3am local time Sunday morning, it said in a statement. Police said paramedics transported a 27-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to a south London hospital, and that the incident appeared to have happened near a house party in Southwark. The police statement said that at this early stage of investigation there was no evidence to suggest a targeted attack or that the woman "had received any credible threats ag...

A vigil was held close to the hospital where a Black Lives Matter activist who was shot in Peckham is being treated. Sasha Johnson is in a critical condition, receiving treatment at King's College Hospital, after she was shot in the head on Consort Road in the early hours of Sunday morning. The group gathered around the bandstand in Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, praying for the 27-year-old to pull through as they played African drums. One speaker told the crowd: “In every community there are good eggs and bad eggs and we have to make sure those bad eggs are held accountable for their a...