During the first week of protests in London from the radical climate change alarmist group Extinction Rebellion (XR), nearly 500 activists have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police.
In the first eight days of the two-week-long “Impossible Rebellion” protests in the British capital, 469 green radicals have been arrested for various offenses, according to the Met.
On Tuesday, approximately 200 Extinction Rebellion activists gathered on London Bridge, ten of whom locked themselves to a bus that they had brought along to the protest, shutting down traffic for hours.
In an exclusive Breitbart London video, XR activists were seen blocking off a major intersection of Central London last Monday.
The climate change activists constructed a giant four-meter table in the middle of the road in Covent Garden, with activists chaining themselves to the structure.
While police initially took a hands-off approach through most of the day, 52 activists were eventually arrested in the evening and the structure was eventually dismantled the following morning.
Smaller protests have continued through the rest of the week, including pouring fake blood throughout the City of London to symbolize Britain’s banking hub’s connections to the historical slave trade and allegedly man-made climate change.
On Tuesday of last week, activists attempted to block off traffic in Cambridge Circus, using lock-on devices to tie each other together as well as to street furniture.
A Met Police spokesman said per the Evening Standard: “Removing these lock-on devices is not impossible, but it takes time. In addition to the caravan blocking Tower Bridge and the blue van blocking the approach on Mansell Street, protesters also lay down on the junction to Tower Bridge.
“We have the tools to remove these lock-ons. We see many comments and questions asking why this work can’t be quicker and use more direct tactics.”
“While we understand the public’s frustration, we must consider the safety of everyone involved – including our officers. This work is painstaking but we work as quick as we can.”
Some social media users celebrated police for acting fast to prevent another makeshift structure from being constructed on the road on Monday.
While XR has developed fast-moving tactics where unmarked vehicles are used to rapidly deploy protests and objects to block traffic, police were witnessed by bystanders to move in quickly to prevent the structure from being completed, all in a matter of seconds.
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The good news is that law breakers are being arrested. There have been instances in the UK where Extinction Rebellion Climate Activists have closed off blocks and the police did nothing. Now, will they be prosecuted? Often district attorneys will not do so because they sympathize with the activists’ cause. This has been a big problem in Portland Oregon. What would be very effect but won’t be done is to hold the law breakers liable in civil court for the costs they have imposed on the government and others. If oil companies are sued for damages that they didn’t cause, then Climate Activists should be sued for damages that they do cause. Collecting might not be possible, but it would keep them in debt for the rest of their lives. This would discourage others from doing the same.
I would like to see them put to work how about them building some Birdhouses or Feeders maybe clean up a Highway or plant some Trees lets see them learn some real responsilities they wont learn from the Just Stinks Rebellion