London fitness trainer Patrick Hutchinson, who carried on the shoulders of the aggressive crowd of participants in the demonstration of the extreme right, said Bi-bi-si, saved this person from potential death.
London fitness trainer Patrick Hutchinson, who carried on the shoulders of the aggressive crowd of participants in the demonstration of the extreme right, said Bi-bi-si, saved this person from potential death.
Photo Hutchinson made during Saturday’s clashes in London between the extreme right and supporters of Black Lives Matter, have spread in the Internet. It also was published in many British and American media.
last Saturday in Trafalgar square in Central London, and Hyde Park, a demonstration was held in defense of the rights of blacks caused by the death of an African-American to George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
at the same time on Whitehall (the street where is located the British Ministry) and to the Parliament building came right activists and football fans. They argued that intend to protect from desecration by a monument to Winston Churchill, and other monuments that some of the participants in the Black Lives Matter identified with racism and colonialism. Since the previous weekend on the monument to Churchill there was the graffiti, this time it was closed with plywood boards.
as a result, In some points of London was the scene of clashes between supporters of opposite views, as well as between the right and the police. About 100 people were arrested.
Witness one of the skirmishes was Patrick Hutchinson and several of his friends who participated in demonstrations of the movement Black Lives Matter.
They were outside the Southbank Centre near Waterloo station on the South Bank of the Thames, when on the steps leading to the entrance of the building, broke altercation between activists from Black Lives Matter and, according to Hutchinson, “the extreme right and football hooligans.”
Hutchinson and his friends saw that in some moment one of the opponents of the movement Black Lives Matter appeared on the sidewalk.
“I arrived last, threw it over his shoulder, as do the firefighters, and passed out. The guys had my back and that guy,” says Hutchinson, adding that other people from the crowd to the last tried to hit his victim.
“I just realized that on the ground lay a man. If we had not intervened, it would be good not over. So I had no other thoughts except how to get to a safe place,” recalls Hutchinson.
Some British journalists called saved by the Hutchinson human activist of the extreme right organizations, however, reliable data on his identity there. With his rescuers he��did not say, after the incident they didn’t see it.
the Reason for protests in many countries was the death on may 25, a black American, George Floyd. During the arrest police officer Derek Showin crushed knee, his neck and not let go for about nine minutes. Savino charged with murder without any premeditation, and the three present colleagues in acquiescence.
the chief of police of Atlanta will leave the post. Her slave shot and killed an African American.
Patrick Hutchinson said that George Floyd today would be alive if the other cops intervened in time, as it did on Saturday, he and his friends.
“We did what had to do — prevented the murder of a man,” he says.
