Posted on 05/31/2020 3:21:32 PM PDT by rxsid
"Police arrest eleven people after 'assault on officers' as thousands of Black Lives Matter activists marched on US embassy in London and crowds gathered peacefully around UK demanding 'justice' for George Floyd killed by cops 4,000 miles away in US
Eleven people were arrested in London today as thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters peacefully marched on the US Embassy in London, with hundreds more taking to the streets of Cardiff and Manchester, to demonstrate against the killing of George Floyd.
Chants of, 'I can't breathe,' rebounded across the Thames this afternoon, the words Floyd was heard gasping before his death as a white police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday.
They defied the ban on mass gatherings to rally at Trafalgar Square before making their way to the gates of Downing Street and then south of the river towards the US Embassy.
Three people were arrested for breaching coronavirus legislation, said police, while two others were detained for assaulting officers. The other arrests were for a range of offences from possession of an offensive weapon to assault on police, obstructing a public carriageway to breaches of COVID legislation.
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If the Brits have any common sense, they’ll use this as the occasion to end their stupid, aggressive lockdown. Just say no and just go out; what are they going to do, arrest the entire country? Britain is a police state so they may try but I think these “demonstrations” today show that the authorities would be pretty powerless if the Brits just said, heck no, we’re not gonna stay locked up anymore, forget this stuff, it’s over.
This is a concerted effort globalists, soros, DNC, deep state, china, russia. Their planned utopia is threatened
Are they going to torch their cities too?
Good. This might finally end the oppressive lockdown in Britain and make many wish they had a firearm.
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