The George North BLM riots last summer in the UK were during lockdown and the police stood by and watched.

The vigil on Clapham Common was also in lockdown, but this time the issue was much closer to home and the police went way over the top, in my opinion. A woman walking home alone was murdered and her body found some fifty miles away in Kent, with a serving Metropolitan police officer charged with her murder. The two issues are incomparable in the sense that Sarah Everard's murder is on practically every London woman's doorstep.

Further, the UK government is debating a new law which is very ambiguous in its content and could make peaceful protesting in Britain a difficult process:

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statues of dead men matter more in Britain than living women

The bill never once mentions women.

With UK police under fire, Boris Johnson pushes new bill that could end peaceful protests

Let's not forget the riots from last year when BLM were given carte blanche to do what it liked. It's a different agenda.

A more hands-off approach by the police wouldn't have produced such an outcry and had no idea that women in London were so worried about walking alone, especially at night.

Yesterday common sense flew out of the window as women attended a vigil at Clapham Common following the horrendous murder of Sarah Everard. A Met Police officer has been arrested and charged with her murder, which makes it even more shocking.

Police have been criticised for their heavy handed behaviour, but on the other hand, others say the vigil was hijacked by attention seekers.