He admits feeling “very concerned” about the scenes of police violence during the concentration for the disappearance and murder of the 33-year-old woman
UK Police accused of murdering Sarah Everard appears in court UK The police confirm that the human remains found in a wooded area of London belong to Sarah Everard
The “premier” Boris Johnson has expressed its “full confidence” in the Scotland Yard Chief Commissioner, Cressida Dick, on the tightrope due to police excesses during the vigil for the death of Sarah Everard last Saturday in London. The act of protest against gender violence (policeman Wayne Couzens was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the 33-year-old woman) ended dozens of handcuffed and detained women having been declared “illegal” by the Covid restrictions.
For the second day in a row, hundreds of protesters gathered outside Parliament to protest the police intervention. Protesters cut across Westminster Bridge and then rallied outside Scoyland Yard to shouts of “Shame!”, thrown at the police.
Johnson admitted feeling “very concerned” by the scenes of police violence during the rally, which was attended by the own Kate Middletonhours before the struggles with the protesters began. London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned that the attitude of the police was “completely unacceptable”.
Thousands of Londoners led the protests Sunday afternoon before Parliament, where the Home Secretary appeared on Monday Priti Patel, which has decided to open an investigation into Scotland Yard’s behavior. “Some of the images that have circulated about the protest are disturbing,” acknowledged Patel. “My thoughts are with Sarah Everard’s family and friends on these terrible moments “.
“Many of us know what it’s like to feel unsafe leaving school or coming home from work,” recalled Patel, who announced a battery of measures to prevent violence against women. The Home Secretary, however, preferred take the pressure off Cressida Dick and asked the British not to attend “protests or large gatherings” while restrictions on the Coronavirus persist.
The commotion caused by the disappearance and the murder (Everard’s body was found on Saturday in an open field in Kent, ten days after his disappearance in south London) has been joined in the last three days by the popular outrage against the police by the methods used to dissolve the peaceful concentration.
“The police have a very hard job, although there is no doubt that the images we have seen are very worrying “Boris Johnson acknowledged during a visit to Conventry. “But people must have confidence in the police,” said the “premier”, after having a meeting with the chief commissioner during the meeting of the security and justice “shock force” of his cabinet.
“I would have been there myself”
“If the demonstration had been legal, I would have been there myself “Cressida Dick herself alleged in a statement hours after the incidents. The head of Scotland Yard defended her agents stating that acted in response to “concern about the spread of the Coronavirus”. Dick assured that she is determined to “continue leading the organization” despite the criticism.
The controversial chief-commissioner, appointed in 2017 by Theresa May and the first openly lesbian woman to hold a senior security position, received an unexpected oxygen balloon on Monday at the hands of Reclaim These Streets, the group that organized Saturday’s protests at Clapham Juction.
“We are a group of women that supports the empowerment of women,” said group spokeswoman Anna Birley, at the time of ensuring that the objective is not to force the resignation of the chief commissioner. “What we want is to talk to her, because we are very disappointed by your statement and by your reluctance to talk to people who organized the vigil. “
Cressida Dick has been in the pillory in recent years for the increased street crime in London and the epidemic of knife point attacks. Scotland Yard has also been criticized for failing to act against racism and for the methods used to arrest more than a thousand protesters in a week, during the protest acts of the environmental group Extinction Rebellion.
The images of the police excesses on Saturday went viral on the networks and provoked acts of protest throughout the country, in which it is perceived as the start of a movement against gender violence similiar al #MeToo. The photo of Patsy Stevenson, the 28-year-old student pinned to the ground by the police in her black mask, has become an emblem of the new resistance: “All we wanted was to remember Sarah. We were arrested simply for being there celebrating. a vigil “.
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