Olympics chief Thomas Bach warns the podium is OFF limits for ‘political demonstrations’ after Team GB athletes voiced their intention to take a knee in Tokyo By Mike Keegan For The Daily Mail Published: 22:31 BST, 16 July 2021 | Updated: 23:06 BST, 16 July 2021 Britain’s Olympians could be on a collision course with … Read more
Far right protestors have clashed with police in Rome in what is the second night of demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions in Italy. Violence once again erupted as huge crowds of activists descended on the city this evening, with footage showing flares being thrown and fireworks being let off as police armed with riot shields tried … Read more
Multiple demonstrations are getting underway across the country this weekend as environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion gears up for a new ‘uprising’. Various stunts including a ‘funeral march’ in Lewes, East Sussex, and a fancy dress tea party at Gatwick Airport are scheduled. Extinction Rebellion says the activities over the August bank holiday weekend are … Read more
Matt Hancock has been slammed for warning against mass demonstrations while standing next to an NHS test and trace tsar who also sits on the committee that allowed the Cheltenham Festival to go ahead. The Health Secretary tonight pleaded with anti-racism protesters to avoid large crowds as he warned coronavirus ‘thrives on social contact regardless of what your … Read more
How BLM protester hurled a bike at police horse, which then bolted down Whitehall and slammed its rider into a traffic light before the animal collided with another woman demonstrator A police horse injured one woman as protestors clashed with police on Saturday The Black Lives Matters protests saw thousands of people take to London … Read more
Troops suited up in riot gear surrounded a barricaded White House on Saturday as Washington D.C. prepared for the largest George Floyd protest yet. Activists have called for thousands of people to descend on the nation’s capital as the United States enters the twelfth straight day of demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism. D.C. … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock tonight warned Britons not to attend large scale anti-racism demonstrations this weekend due to the risk of coronavirus. He urged people to think of ‘the safety of their loved ones’ and said Covid-19 remained a ‘real threat’. Speaking at a Downing Street coronavirus briefing today, he urged people not to attend … Read more
The New York City Police Department continued its crackdown across the city on Wednesday night by arresting more than 90 peaceful protesters who ignored the citywide curfew for a third night in a row. About an hour after the curfew went into effect, officers began moving in on crowds of demonstrators in Manhattan and Brooklyn, … Read more
The black Democrat mayors for Washington, DC, and Atlanta, Georgia, have both pleaded for an end to violent demonstrations as the shocking extent of the damage to cities across America is laid bare. Mayors pleaded on Sunday that protesters don’t ‘destroy our cities’ as rioters took to the streets in cities across America in the … Read more
George Floyd protests have started spiraling out of control for the fifth night Saturday as cop cars were torched in LA and Chicago, demonstrators clashed with the NYPD in Times Square and curfews were put in place in at least 10 cities. Outrage over the death of black man Floyd – who was killed when … Read more