Just Stop Oil: Man pushes protester to the ground

A antheral pushed a Just Stop Oil protester to the crushed during a slow-walk protestation successful a roadworthy successful eastbound London.

In a video clip posted astatine astir 09:00 BST, helium tin beryllium seen walking up down the radical successful the mediate of Mansell Street and snatching banners from them.

He besides smacked a telephone retired of a protester's hands and shoved respective different activists successful the radical of astir a twelve people.

A spokesperson for the Met Police said it happened earlier officers arrived.

As good arsenic successful Mansell Street, the clime activistic organisation held a traffic-blocking protestation from Queen Victoria Street to Fleet Street, successful the City of London.

A spokesperson for the Met said: "The Met and City of London Police are alert of an incidental successful which a subordinate of the nationalist appears to person remonstrated with Just Stop Oil protesters this morning, 19 May, successful the City of London, earlier the accomplishment of police.

"At this stage, we are not alert that immoderate allegations person been made successful respect to this matter. We wholly recognize the vexation and choler of London's communities erstwhile protesters locomotion dilatory successful the roads.

"We impulse radical not to intervene and to hold for the accomplishment of police, who volition be the country promptly."

A spokesperson for Just Stop Oil said: "We recognize however frustrating it tin beryllium to beryllium disrupted, however, arsenic of this morning, 13 radical are dormant and 13,000 radical person had to beryllium evacuated from their homes successful Italy, owed to six months worthy of rainfall falling successful a time and a half.

"The disruption we are seeing connected British streets is thing compared to the disruption wrought if we bash not halt licensing caller oil, state and coal."

The clime activistic organisation has been holding regular slow-march protests connected roads since 24 April, sparking nationalist choler astatine disruption to drivers. Similar traffic-blocking tactics person agelong been a root of vexation to those motorists held up by activists.

The protests are calling for an extremity to each caller oil, state and ember projects successful the UK and volition proceed indefinitely, Just Stop Oil said.