Saturday, June 06, 2020

Black lives matter in London


By New Worker correspondent


Londoners gathered in Trafalgar Square on Sunday to protest the death of George Floyd, the Black man whose murder in Minneapolis by police officers has triggered off a week of protests and rioting across the USA. Following clashes with the police after they tried to clear a junction in Parliament Square blocked by protesters, 23 people were arrested.
One protester, who chose to remain nameless, said the demonstrators had been protesting peacefully: “We came out here peacefully to protest the injustice in the UK, it's now a global issue with the murder of George Floyd, everything that's going on in the world," the protester said. “The police came and they made it violent. They came and antagonised us; we were protesting peacefully.”

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