Policing bill part of wider threat to public s ability to hold government to account
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THOUSANDS of demonstrators pledged to continue fighting proposed policing laws outside Parliament following a fifth consecutive day of protest today.
Demonstrations were continuing nationwide in memory of Sarah Everard, who vanished after walking home alone in Clapham on March 3 and whose body was identified last Friday, today after the Morning Star went to print.
Tuesday night’s protest in London coincided with a parliamentary vote on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which passed by 359 votes to 263.
Protesters who had gathered outside Westminster heard speeches on the Met’s heavy-handedness while policing a vigil for Ms Everard at Clapham Common and about dehumanising photos taken by police of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry after their deaths.
A memorial commemorating the Battle of Britain was daubed with graffiti during last night s anti-police protests in Westminster.
The letters ACAB - All Cops Are B s - were scrawled above a list honoring the airmen who died in the Second World War battle.
The word racist was also written under Winston Churchill s immortal remarks following the fighting that never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed, by so many, to so few.
The protests were sparked by the murder of Sarah Everard and are being led by a feminist group accused of hijacking her death.