Driver savagely beats protester blocking traffic in the middle of the street: video
An enraged motorist has been filmed assaulting a Just Stop Oil protester in London[1], after a “slow walk” protest blocking traffic reportedly caused a pregnant woman to crash her car.
Video of the incident posted online by the controversial group showed a man in a red hat punching a protester and knocking him to the ground before kicking him in the head.
The man is seen furiously arguing with another person who steps in to intervene, before returning to a damaged silver Mercedes with his distressed female companion.
The car appears to have been struck on the rear driver’s side by a van while attempting to change lanes.
Just Stop Oil said one of its supporters was “assaulted while demanding no new oil and gas.”
An enraged motorist has bashed a Just Stop Oil member after a “slow walk” protest blocking traffic caused a pregnant woman to crash her car.
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A video of the incident posted online showed a man in a red hat punching a protester and knocking him to the ground.
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“Daniel was assaulted while marching this morning and remained nonviolent throughout,” the group wrote. “Disruption is difficult, but it’s necessary.”
The group subsequently posted an interview with the man nursing the back of his head with a packet of frozen peas.
Daniel “would rather the police spent their time investigating the CEOs and politicians pushing for more oil and gas than chasing down the man that assaulted him”, Just Stop Oil wrote.
“Physically I’m feeling a bit better,” he said in the video.
The car appears to have been struck on the rear driver’s side by a van while attempting to change lanes.
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“If anything I feel a bit sad … because I haven’t said anything to the police, I don’t plan to, but I’m afraid the police might go ahead and you know, go after this man. I feel no ill sentiment or ill will against him. It’s a difficult situation for anyone to be in and it’s bound to create frustration. I could tell that with everything that was happening, he’d just been in a car accident as well, he was very stressed.”
Daniel said if the police should go “after the people at the top in the government or at the heads of fossil fuel companies who are killing us, really, they’re killing future generations and they’re funding this toxic media space that creates a certain violent world that we’re all living in.”
“If the police spent any amount of time going after them instead of people like the man from before I’d be much happier,” he said.
Sky News host Piers Morgan called the protesters “complete prats.”
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Earlier this week, a woman in Germany was filmed dragging[4] a climate protester off the road by the hair.
The activists from Letzte Generation — “The Last Generation” — were blocking a road in Bottrop.
The activist was lightly injured in the altercation, police in Recklinghausen said.
Police said they were looking into videos and photos of the incident to determine if criminal proceedings were necessary against those who dragged the protesters off the road.
They also said the climate activists were taken into custody.
Some members of the German group have taken to gluing their hands to the road so they can’t be physically removed.
References
- ^ assaulting a Just Stop Oil protester in London (twitter.com)
- ^ was detained (www.standard.co.uk)
- ^ police said (www.mirror.co.uk)
- ^ filmed dragging (www.foxnews.com)