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Priti Patel has demanded a full report from the Metropolitan Police after its response to a vigil for Sarah Everard was criticised as "unacceptable" and "deeply disturbing". Clashes broke out as officers attempted to disperse a crowd of hundreds of people gathered at the bandstand in Clapham Common on Saturday evening. Four arrests were made. Several demonstrators were forcibly pulled away while at least one young woman was restrained on the.
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Patsy Stevenson (inset) from Southend, was arrested by police in Clapham Common on Saturday night at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Pics: PA and Counterfire.org A WOMAN from Southend has slammed “disgraceful” Metropolitan Police for “throwing her to the floor” during vigil for Sarah Everard. Patsy Stevenson was arrested during the vigil for Ms Everard, in Clapham Common, in London last night. Ms Stevenson previously spoke to the Echo in June 2017 following an incident where a man reportedly indecently exposed himself to her and her friend while they were walking home along London Road, Westcliff, in the early hours of the morning.
Defending the Metropolitan police’s handling of Saturday night’s Sarah Everard vigil, assistant commissioner Helen Ball argued the force had to act “because of the overriding need to protect people’s safety” from the threat of coronavirus. Yet last year’s Black Lives Matter protests in some 300 US cities did not cause a spike in cases there, a July report from the National Bureau of Economic Research found. The outdoor air played a part in.