Sarah Everard: Virtual and doorstep vigils held across the UK
The prime minister and the Duchess of Cambridge are among those paying tribute to the 33-year-old.
www.bbc.co.uk
What the BBC aren't (yet?) reporting is the poor behaviour by police which is readily available on social media, such as:Although the evening vigil at Clapham Common was cancelled, people still gathered at its bandstand to lay flowers and pay their respects throughout the day.
Sisters Uncut, which campaigns to prevent violence against women, said it planned to attend the Clapham vigil despite the organisers' cancellation.
Women being snatched by police at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Shameful, shameful scenes.
One of your colleagues allegedly murdered a woman @metpoliceuk. That’s why women are gathering to mourn. And now you’re brutalising them.
Here are some excellent observations (as always) from Adam Wagner:
Police have a legal duty under the human rights act to facilitate lawful protest. They knew that whatever they did people would be there. But rather than being seen to lose face as they had interpreted the law wrong (that protest is automatically unlawful), they doubled down
The @metpoliceuk had the advantage of a supremely responsible group of organisers - a number of of whom are local councillors (I worked with them intensively over 2 days and was hugely impressed). They could have worked together to do this responsibly. Instead look what happened
The @metpoliceuk had repeated opportunities in recent days to agree a path forward. After the hearing on Friday when the High Court made clear protests (or vigils) could not be automatically unlawful, there was a window to agree some version of the vigil. They refused.
Yet again the police have been caught behaving in a disgraceful manner; they appear to be trying to turn the public against them as much as possible.
We do NOT consent!
If there are any police officers reading this, please talk to your Unions, please talk to your commanding officers, and please urge that the force stops behaving in such a disgraceful manner.
I would hugely respect any officer who threatens to resign over police behaviour during this pandemic. If I worked for an organisation that was acting in such a way, I would be threatening to resign, for sure.