London police face backlash after dragging mourners from vigil for murdered woman

The police allowed bigger demonstrations, also under covid rules, last year for Extinction Rebellion and BLM. This time, for unknown reasons, they decided not to engage with Reclaim The Streets, the organisers of the vigil, so the usual rabble rousers took over some of whom were picking for a fight. Look at the footage of all those men at the front who started kicking off with the police, none of whom were arrested. The police then decided to remove women from the bandstand and the arrests and aggressive behaviour started. Not a good look for the Met. If they ‘allowed’ RTS to organise and marshal the vigil and liaised with them, as they did with other protests, this wouldn’t have happened. Other vigils elsewhere in the UK passed off without a problem. This is a Met problem, they stopped policing by consent decades ago.

they decided not to engage with Reclaim The Streets

Please be careful with your spellcheck.

The right for women to freely move around London is “Reclaim These Streets”. I was involved in “Reclaim The Streets” back then, where I was also baton and punched by UK police.

It seems that the left wants it both ways. They want the police to crack down on politically incorrect demonstrations but not their’s.