Black Lives Matter Activists Shut Down London City Airport By Occupying Its Runway
Source: Time
Flights were disrupted at London City Airport early Tuesday after nine protesters from Black Lives Matter U.K. got onto the runway and locked themselves together, police said.
Seven people have been arrested and inbound flights were diverted, the BBC reports.
The group released a video statement saying that they aimed to highlight the U.K.s environmental impact on the lives of black people locally and globally. In the video, activists said that the average salary of a London City Airport passenger is £92,000 ($122,000) a year while more than 40% of residents in the borough where the airport is located scrape by on ($26,000) or less.
Read more: http://time.com/4479755/london-city-airport-protest-shutdown-black-lives-matter/
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)Professional protestors professionally doing jack shit.
Throd
(7,208 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)'Em in this case not being trigger-happy (US!) cops, but anything a pack of virtue-signalling cockwombles feel like.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I think it sucks that they are using BLM to hide behind in protesting for their cause. They aren't winning any converts.
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)Things won't change till you make them notice you!
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)So they used BLM for a half-assed environmental protest?
What the fucking hell?
Retrograde
(10,203 posts)Black Lives Matter with Bureau of Land Management? I often do - the latter is common out here in the West.
From what I've read in the UK press, it looks like these people are co-opting Black Lives Matter for their own particular agenda - climate change awareness in this case.
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