Boris Johnson: It is 'absolutely vital' to back police while supporting Black Lives Matter protests

The Prime Minister has stressed that it is "absolutely vital" to back police, while balancing the need to support protests from the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the death of George Floyd in the United States.

[Kramp]

“we’re trying to ensure that young BAME people are not immediately prosecuted as a result of the trouble they find themselves in” - did I just hear that correctly? Is Boris positing a parallel justice system which shows more leniency to non-whites? Really? Like REALLY!

[manindescript]

Fire the ones 'taking the knee' immediately.

[lllCANDYMAANlll]

Why hasnt anyone started protests about terrorism and all the attacks have that been done and very likely will continue unfortunatley eg london bridge is 1 of many

[rightwing]

Judging the many on the actions of the few will always be a foolish and harmful way of thinking.

[williambell]

Grooming gangs we’ve been waiting too long

[svt]

It's amazing how the western countries go out of their way to support blacks people and their movements, if it was the other way around things wouldn't be the same

[FredGumbo]

Boris Johnson held up several hours this morning trying to decide which way to brush his hair...

[llmm]

Thank you very much Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sadiq Khan, the other MPs, the police & others for banning these mass protests in London. London is a hotspot for cornavirus. it would be better to ban mass protests in all of UK because there are other hotspots & we must protect all UK people. Isn't it better to create new legislation to ban mass gatherings/protests in all of UK?
The 2nd wave is due around now.
God bless you & everyone of us for saving lives.

[benjaminfranklin]

They are protesting about something that was not in anyway the UKs fault.

[danielobrien]

Stay at home still applies so hes not wrong

[yvczojk]

Quiickly says Boris.. I can see a bandwagon we can jump on to take people's attention from this travesty we caused handling the epidemic.

[stevenamoah]

You just know evening standard Hadd to find the thumbnail with all the black faceses

[bobanboban]

This is the same geezer that said Muslim women look like post boxes, give me a break!