Dozens were arrested by London police on Saturday, while thousands marched through the streets of the city in protest against COVID’s blocking restrictions.
London anti-lockdowns became violent, throwing bottles and cans at police officers who tried to maintain order during a demonstration that violated coronavirus regulations, Sky News reported.
The police were forced to run back to their vehicles while about 100 people were chasing them violently, punching and kicking the police with whom they came into contact.
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The protest circulated around Hyde Park and continued on Oxford Street, but about 100w policemen with helmets and shields were forced to descend on the royal park, as people became more aggressive as it got dark.
Protesters shouted “shame” to the police, while others carried banners that said “stop destroying our children’s lives” and “Yes, sex is great, but have you ever been fucked by the government?” reported the London publication, The Evening Standard.
The Metropolitan Police posted on Twitter on Saturday afternoon to announce: “The police will take action when necessary.”
“Met officials are engaging with those who flock around Piccadilly and other areas of central London to protest, explaining that we are still in a public health crisis and asking people to disperse or return home,” they wrote .
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Leaders of the Labor Party, a center-left political party in the United Kingdom, lead the march to protest Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s rigid COVID measures.
London has been closed since December 20, but the reopening of England has been scheduled for March 29, with groups of six people or less allowed to meet outside.
The stores are not expected to start reopening until April 12, the BBC said, but it is not clear whether the densely populated city of London would follow the redefinition of the country’s guidelines.
Saturday’s protest came just days after 60 members of Parliament wrote a letter to Interior Minister Priti Patel, warning of the criminalization of the protest, reported The Evening Standard.
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The letter said that “it is not acceptable and possibly not legal” for the police to prevent people from protesting. The letter followed the end of the vigil by the Metropolitan Police by Sarah Everard last week, a London woman kidnapped and murdered by a police officer.