Post by acnedriver on May 31, 2023 20:06:07 GMT
A disabled Just Stop Oil protester was taken to a police station in a taxi as she was arrested with 10 other demonstrators for slow marching in Parliament Square.
Ari Fox, 73, who has been confined to a wheelchair for the past 15 years, was seen being pushed up a ramp by her carer, Larch Maxey, who was also arrested, into a black cab before being driven to Hammersmith police station.
Photographs show two officers seated next to Miss Fox, who suffers from post-polio syndrome, carrying a bag of her possessions.
The Metropolitan Police has been approached for comment. Nine other activists were detained on Wednesday afternoon for blockading a central road leading into Parliament Square.
The group had refused a police order to clear the road and were detained in a standard police van. Rev Sue Parfitt, an 81-year-old serial protester with Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, was among those detained.
Just Stop Oil posted footage online of the protests on roads near West Kensington tube station, including the A4, with one police officer dragging a supporter along the ground by his hi-vis vest in an attempt to clear the way.
Officers have powers under the new Public Order Act to make activists move out of the road or face arrest.
Miss Fox, a retired cook from Exeter, said: “I’ve come to London to join the Just Stop Oil march for my children and grandchildren.
“They are the ones who are going to have to face the mess that is being imposed on us in Britain, by our illegitimate government. We’re not asking that all oil is immediately stopped.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/31/just-stop-oil-wheelchair-london-protest-arrest-taxi/
Ari Fox, 73, who has been confined to a wheelchair for the past 15 years, was seen being pushed up a ramp by her carer, Larch Maxey, who was also arrested, into a black cab before being driven to Hammersmith police station.
Photographs show two officers seated next to Miss Fox, who suffers from post-polio syndrome, carrying a bag of her possessions.
The Metropolitan Police has been approached for comment. Nine other activists were detained on Wednesday afternoon for blockading a central road leading into Parliament Square.
The group had refused a police order to clear the road and were detained in a standard police van. Rev Sue Parfitt, an 81-year-old serial protester with Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, was among those detained.
Just Stop Oil posted footage online of the protests on roads near West Kensington tube station, including the A4, with one police officer dragging a supporter along the ground by his hi-vis vest in an attempt to clear the way.
Officers have powers under the new Public Order Act to make activists move out of the road or face arrest.
Miss Fox, a retired cook from Exeter, said: “I’ve come to London to join the Just Stop Oil march for my children and grandchildren.
“They are the ones who are going to have to face the mess that is being imposed on us in Britain, by our illegitimate government. We’re not asking that all oil is immediately stopped.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/31/just-stop-oil-wheelchair-london-protest-arrest-taxi/