AdvertisementPolice surrounded a statue of Churchill while thousands of Black Lives Matter protest descended on London again today and marched along Whitehall demanding justice for Somali schoolgirl Shukri Abdi. Black Lives Matter demonstrators waved banners reading 'justice for Shukri', 'silence is violence' and 'no justice, no peace' in the street near Parliament. It comes exactly a year after 12-year-old Shukri drowned in a river in Bury, Greater Manchester, which was not treated as suspicious by police. At the same time there was a Black Trans Lives Matter protest, which met at Wellington Arch at 2pm and marched to Downing Street for 3pm. In recent weeks the statue to Britain's greatest ever Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was defaced by BLM protesters and police officers have come under attack.

Source: Daily Mail June 27, 2020 15:21 UTC