Posted by u/[deleted] 12 days ago. Churchill Statue Vandalised on D-Day Anniversary as BLM Crowd Into London 34,358 NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images. Posts on social media have misleadingly claimed that the Cenotaph war memorial in London was defaced during an anti-racism protest. Defaced as they police simply watch,” the caption of one such post reads. He fought the Nazis purely to protect the Commonwealth against the invasion by foreign forces. Home Secretary Priti Patel called the move ‘utterly disgraceful’ and said it had become a ‘distraction from the cause in which people are actually protesting about and trying to empathise and sympathise with.’To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web Police chased down Whitehall and Cenotaph damaged as 12 arrested at BLM protests. Defaced as they police simply watch,” the caption of one such post reads. Protesters spray painted 'was a racist' under the crossed out name on a statue of Sir Winston Churchill during London BLM protests. They later marched across the river towards parliament and Downing Street, pausing on the bridge to kneel on one knee and chant ‘Justice, now!’ In Parliament Square.Holding a sign reading ‘white silence = violence’, 28-year-old protester Hermione Lake said: ‘Now is the time: we need to do something.

He did it purely for colonialism. BLM decided to deface the ultimate symbol of all lives matter and rememberance, The Cenotaph in London You have lost all respect in the UK because of these mindless idiots.

The video was uploaded on June 4 and has a caption stating it was filmed the morning after the protests (A separate video posted to social media by a radio journalist on the afternoon of June 3 shows protesters gathered around the base of the Cenotaph, with one protester standing between the flags on the memorial itself (Further protests happened in London over the weekend of June 6 and 7.

Around a dozen soldiers left their barracks next to Hyde Park in London last night, with the permission of their commander, to clean graffiti from the Earl Haig memorial. The photo on the left is from Wednesday's protest, the one on the right is 10 years old. The Texas Land … This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. James Hockaday Monday 8 Jun 2020 10:38 am. “The cenotaph, London. browser that Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Home Secretary Priti Patel — whose … People will be angry but at the end of the day I’m angry that for many years we’ve been oppressed. ‘He didn’t do it for black people or people of colour. The video was uploaded on June 4 and has a caption stating it was filmed the morning after the protests (A separate video posted to social media by a radio journalist on the afternoon of June 3 shows protesters gathered around the base of the Cenotaph, with one protester standing between the flags on the memorial itself (Further protests happened in London over the weekend of June 6 and 7. Defaced as they police simply watch,” the caption of one such post reads. The PM said that while people had the right to protest peacefully, the demonstrations had been ‘subverted by thuggery’.On Twitter, Johnson added: ‘They are a betrayal of the cause they purport to serve. The building the man is filmed graffitiing is the UK government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, not the Cenotaph memorial (City of Westminster Police said on Twitter: “We are aware of incorrect social media rumours of damage being caused to the Cenotaph during protests in #Whitehall. People left banners saying ‘British Colonialism is to Blame’ and ‘What if it was your son?’ at the base of the monument and attached a Black Lives Matter sign on Churchill’s belly. A further 12 people were arrested on Sunday in central London, the majority of them for public order offences.Pauline Nandoo, 60, said she had been protesting racism since the 1970s and the images of violence at the end of Saturday’s protest had not deterred her.Speaking with her brother and 13-year-old daughter, she said: ‘There’s children of all ages and older adults here.

The Alamo has surfaced as a flashpoint during the recent Black Lives Matter protests. Share on Facebook. Thousands gathered in central London on June 3 to protest the death of George Floyd; an unarmed black American who died after a white policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes (“The cenotaph, London.