As the Met bruised in
- fuzzwahoo
- Apr 3
- 1 min read
An article by James Butler
Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the doors of the Quaker meeting house in Westminster to arrest six young women. The women were attending a welcome meeting of Youth Demand, a small, non-violent activist group currently dedicated to action against climate change and the genocide in Gaza. (Non-violence is a prerequisite for meeting in a Quaker building.) The raid took in therapy classes and life-drawing sessions running in the same building; police went on to raid the student accommodation of some of the arrested women. None has been charged...
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