XR No Food No Future protest
Millbank, London. Tue 15 Oct 2019
Traffic including buses was flowing in both directions over Lambeth
Bridge when I arrived
Police were surrounding the roundabout
and stopping people from walking across unless they could show suitable
ID
Police escort a JCB to go across the bridge on its way to try and
clear the XR camp given permission to be in Vauxhall Park by Lambeth Council
Police search a man carrying a pocket trumpet
The officer seems amused by finding a horn as well
Other people thought to be protesters are searched
One man questions police about their actions
and another photographs the police vans
Two women are searched
They say they have nothing to hide so don't mind being searched
The trumpeter plays
Others arrive
Some with XR flags and many with badges
and more police come
A man shows a passport to be allowed to walk across the bridge
Two men tried to block the road. Police dragged one who had sat down
to the side of the road
and the other was forcefully escorted off
The man who had sat down was arrested
The other did not seem to have been arrested and was loudly shouting
'Extinction!' with others responding 'Rebellion!'
On the other side of the roundabout several groups of protesters had
arrived
I left at this point to photograph a protest I had been told was about to
happen in Trafalgar Square
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