UK Police Urge Public Not to ‘Directly Intervene’ With Road-Blocking Climate Protests
Members of the public should not “directly intervene” with climate activists blocking roads, and should contact the police instead, a UK police boss has said.
On Oct. 29, when activists from the Just Stop Oil group simultaneously blocked four roads in London, furious motorists dragged some protesters out of the way.
Commenting on the incident, Matt Twist, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, urged people not to take the law into their own hands.
Twist said the climate group’s month-long road-blocking campaign has caused “significant disruption and frustration among the public in London,” and has diverted police away from dealing with knife crime, burglaries, and safeguarding….