So proud of the bravery of Pc Keith Palmer, so grateful for what he did to keep us safe and i would like to add my tribute to all the policing here At Westminster and the parliamentary staff who acted with such calmness and professionalism yesterday, and i would like to pay tribute to the Emergency Trauma Team at Kings College hospital who are caring the injured. This was an horrific crime and it has cost lives and caused injury, but as an Act Of Terror, it has failed. It has failed because we are here and we are going to go about our business. It has failed because despite the trauma that they witnessed outside their windows, our staff are here and they are getting on with their work. It failed because as the Prime Minister so failed because as the Prime Minister so rightly said, we are not going to allow this to be used as a pretext for division, hatred and islamophobia. This democracy is strong and this parliament is robust. This was an horrific crime but as an Act Of Terror, it has
now, we are told by the met it is very unusual for someone to be stopped on the street by a loan plain clothes officer, but if that happens to you and you are concerned about the office of s conduct, then the advice from the police is you should ask to use the officer s radio contact the control room to check what the officer is doing is legitimate. and then the advice is if you still feel in danger you might perhaps want to run to a nearby house and ask for help. you might want to shout out to a passer by to show you re in distress, you might want to flag down a bus or even dial 999. but, as you say, this is very much putting the onus on the person who is stopped. and, in the case of sarah everard, when wayne couzens showed his arrest warrant, he then quickly handcuffed her. so it s unclear whether that advice would have worked in this case, whether it would have been practical. but this is new advice. the met recognising that they have a job to do to rebuild confidence.
off running upstairs towards the speaker s lobby, and helped the plain clothes officer who was getting hassled by the insurrectionists. some were wearing tactical vests, cargo pants and body armour. i was physically exhausted and it was hard to breathe and see because of all the chemical spray in the air. more and more insurrectionists were pour into the area by the speaker s lobby near the rotunda, some wearing maga hats and shirts that said trump 2020. i told them to just leave the capitol and in response they yelled, no, man, this is our house. president trump invited us here. we re here to stop the steal. joe biden is not the president.