Two men arrested arriving into London to attend UTK protest, says Met Commenting on today’s policing operation in London, the Met Police said they had made two arrests near Euston station. A statement from the force read: Officers have made two arrests in the vicinity of Euston station. Two men, wanted on suspicion of GBH following an incident in Birmingham where a man was run over, were spotted arriving into London to attend the UTK protest. The human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the Unite the Kingdom rally as “a march that brings racism, violence and fear to the streets of London”. The group’s UK chief executive, Kerry Moscogiuri, said the rally organised by Tommy Robinson aims to “whip up hatred towards Muslims, migrants and people of colour”. She added: This rally is driven by a vicious combination of tech companies profiting off the amplification of hate online, funding by the likes of US tech billionaire Robert Shillman to further their own agendas and the scapegoating of migrants and people of colour for rising inequality by media commentators. Instead of countering this narrative, we have seen politicians responding by doubling down on racist rhetoric.” As the Guardian’s Daniel Boffey reported previously, Shillman, known as Dr Bob, financed a fellowship that helped pay for Robinson to be employed by the rightwing Canadian media website, Rebel Media, now called Rebel News, on a salary of about £5,000 a month. Moscogiuri called on the government to “do more to protect racialised communities from this rising tide of violence and hate, and stop us going down this dangerous path”. Nick Lowles, director of the anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate, has shared a poll on Tommy Robinson’s popularity this morning as the far-right leader’s Unite the Kingdom rally gathers pace. According to a
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