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@bobfrombrockley

I spent some of the morning looking at how #BLMldn protests played out. Thought I’d amplify some of the things that struck me. Thread:

First, Huck’s @bencsmoke made a good thread that followed the whole days events:

https://twitter.com/huckmagazine/status/1269242114954625025?s=21

This is an important point, and resonates with what I saw when I was in central London as people assembled yesterday. It was a grassroots thing, unlike so many of the top-heavy boring demos the left organises. Hende absence of manufactured placards.

https://twitter.com/huckmagazine/status/1269307158279213056?s=21

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Stefan Simanowitz

@StefSimanowitz

A: Save the tiger!

B: You shouldn’t say ‘save the tiger’! You should say ‘save all animals’.

A: Of course all animals should be protected, but tigers are on the verge of extinction. They need saving.

B: Oh I get it.

C: Save the pigeon!
#BlackLivesMattters #BlackLivesMatterUK

“Black lives matters, just matter, not matter more than you....that’s where we start the negotiations...”
- Michael Che - PART 1
#BlackLivesMatter #BLM #BLMUK #BritishHistoryMatters

"There's a lot of tension. Blacks and cops aren't getting along.

I don't know if you've seen the news for the past 400 years but...”
- Michael Che - PART 2 #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #BlackLivesMatterUK #BLMLDN

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kassy

@kassy

i’m at the #blacklivesmatter protest in london where thousands of people have turned up in the rain to show their support

there’s a guy giving out free masks at the #blacklivesmatter protest outside parliament square in london

some of the signs spotted at the #BlackLivesMatter protest in london

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Rachael Venables

@rachaelvenables

Warnings from the Health Secretary and Met Police Commissioner for people NOT to protest today - haven’t worked. Thousands already here at the Black Lives Matter protest in Parliament Square. #BLMLDN @LBC

This group are handing out free PPE to protesters arriving at Parliament Square (hand sanitiser, gloves and masks). But as you can see, all social distancing has gone out of the window @LBC

“BLM” has now been spray painted on the side of the foreign office @LBC

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Netpol

@netpol

THREAD: A lot of people have been asking us what they can do to support #BlackLivesMatter.

Police systematically target black people with stop & search - so much so that in London black people are 4 times more likely to be stop & searched than white people. #BLMLDN

Many of those killed by the police in the UK were done so after a stop & search.

We've revised our guidance on filming the police during stop & search.

Film the police. Film, film, film the police:

netpol.org/resources/film…

If you are going on a #BlackLivesMattterUK demo, there is a quick "Know Your Rights" briefing here:

https://twitter.com/netpol/status/1268122187325747202

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Mattha Busby

@matthabusby

Crowds growing by Speakers Corner for an anti-racism protest in London after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. People are chanting his name and 'black lives matter'. Several thousand here already

Here's a better photo #BlackLivesMattter #blmldn

As you can see, physical distancing is not being observed but you could say people are less close to each other than they otherwise would be

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Rachael Venables

@rachaelvenables

There’s easily hundreds of people already heading into Hyde Park for the start of the #BLMLDN protest this afternoon. Many carrying Black Lives Matter signs and placards @LBC

Chants of “George Floyd!” and “Belly Mujinga!” ringing out from Hyde Park now. Belly was the ticket collector who died of Covid-19 after someone spat in her face. #BLMLDN

This campaigner’s urging protesters to space out, and respect social distancing. @LBC

Look at the incredible turnout already at the #BlackLivesMattter protest in London this afternoon. Hard to guess at numbers but hundreds still pouring in. Most wearing masks and trying to stay apart, but that is almost impossible. @LBC