OperationShutdown: Anti-knife crime protest closes Westminster bridge
OperationShutdown, made up of bereaved families and anti-knife campaigners, is demanding a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee
Tracey Hanson, whose 21-year-old son Josh was murdered, said protesters were driven by a"sense of desperation". They held a minute's silence near the Houses of Parliament in memory of PC Keith Palmer, who was murdered by a terrorist while on duty in 2017, before moved to the bridge, where they sat down.OperationShutdown members called the government's response to a spike in knife-crime"non-inclusive" and"tokenistic".
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