London police pledged on Sunday to make \u201cfurther arrests in the coming days and weeks\u201d, following violence at one of the largest-ever far-right protests in Britain, organised by anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police said it had so far arrested 24 people after officers faced \u201cunacceptable violence\u201d trying to control up to 150,000 attendees.<\/p>\n
That was two fewer arrests than the force last reported, after discovering what it called \u201ctwo duplicate records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twenty-six police were injured, four seriously, following clashes with officers on the fringes of Robinson\u2019s latest \u201cUnite the Kingdom\u201d rally in central London.<\/p>\n
Of those arrested, three were women and 21 were men, with the oldest aged 58 and the youngest aged 19, according to police.<\/p>\n
It said alleged offences included common assault, criminal damage, assault on an emergency worker and possession of an offensive weapon, noting a number of people were arrested on suspicion of more than one offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cA post-event investigation is under way, with officers working to identify other people involved in disorder with a view to making further arrests in the coming days and weeks,\u201d the force added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London police pledged on Sunday to make \u201cfurther arrests in the coming days and weeks\u201d, following violence at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[113227,748,12190,295,393,299,4884,144828,12188,257,135,300,113415,59423,16,144106,15,144201],"class_list":["post-423941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-anti-immigration","tag-britain","tag-downing-street","tag-elon-musk","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-great-britain","tag-hope-not-hate","tag-labour-government","tag-london","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-north-america","tag-stand-up-to-racism","tag-tommy-robinson","tag-uk","tag-unite-the-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom","tag-westminster-bridge"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115203252648308318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}