Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has condemned the 'miserable disruption' inflicted on Londoners by Extinction Rebellion - telling demonstrators to protest lawfully or go home.
Police try to move climate activists who have glued their hands to a pipe in Oxford CircusMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has condemned the"miserable disruption" inflicted on Londoners by Extinction Rebellion - telling demonstrators to protest lawfully or go home.
She vowed that police will continue to make arrests and dismantle furniture blocking the capital's roads on a busy Easter weekend. Ms Dick said she had never known a single police operation where so many arrests have been made - with more than 750 people detained since the climate change protests began last week.
She said:"I have never - I've been a police officer for 36 years - I have never known an operation, a single operation, in which over 700 people have been arrested.In a message to the protesters, the Met's most senior officer said:"Please go to Marble Arch where you can protest lawfully. Stop your unlawful protests. And if you don't want to go to Marble Arch, then go home.
The commissioner said that by blocking routes in Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge, businesses were being affected and"people are losing money". She said it was affecting everybody in the West End.
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