Bizarre happening at speakers corner:
Last week, Hatun Tash, a diminutive woman was punched in the face at speakers corner because someone didn't like what she was saying. In response to that, tommy Robinson and some of his followers decided to have an event of love and support for her by taking flowers, chocolates, etc.
I was watching it broadcast by a live-streamer because I thought something interesting might kick off. there was a fair crowd there when TR turned up surrounded by body-guards. they made their way through the crowd to Hatun. TR mad a small speech, had a polite conversation with a couple of guys, one of whom looked a bit like a reporter, then he started making his way back, again surrounded by his body-guards. When they got to the edge of the throng without any sort of incident, the police suddenly appeared in mass - I'd say more than 100 altogether. They arrested him and dragged him off. One of his guys got close enough to ask why he'd been arrested. TR shouted out that it was for possession of an offensive weapon, but he said he didn't have anything that could be construed as such. I was watching the whole time, and I didn't see any sign of trouble, rudeness, nor anything else like that.
The only thing that would make sense to me was that the police used the arrest as a pretext to get him out of there because they had credible info that his life was in danger, as the event was announced in social media and he has a big target on his back The arrest was truly bizarre, there were about a dozen policemen completely surrounding him at all times until they had him in the van. If my theory is wrong, his arrest was absolutely tyrannical. I watched the whole thing from start to finish with my own eyes. The only thing he waved was a box of Ferrero Rocher on his way in, when he was waving to his fans, and he was rather aggressively eating a packet of crisps on the way back leading to his arrest.
After TR was arrested, the police did a sweep and seemed to be clearing off all his supporters from the area under the threat of arrest for breaching Covid regulations, but, AFAICS, they left everybody else there.
Now broadcast here. TR starts at 1:57:00 and the arrest at 2:25:00