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A video on the Just Stop Oil Twitter page shows protestors emerging from the crowd at the Pride parade with some sitting in the middle of the road in front of a Coca-Cola truck and another spraying the ground with what looks to be pink powder.
The Metropolitan Police said that protesters sat in the middle of the road on Piccadilly at 1.30pm, causing the parade to stop.
After 16 minutes, police arrested seven protesters for public nuisance offences and the parade continued one minute later.
BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL DISRUPTS PRIDE
LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil have disrupted the Pride in London parade, blocking Coca-Cola’s float and spraying black and pink paint over the road.
A thread on why we’ve disrupted #PrideInLondon: pic.twitter.com/bGjudM9VUl
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) July 1, 2023
One witness said that the activists spoiled the fun for thousands of people.
Neil, 49, from East London, was watching the parade when the protesters ran out in front of him and blocked the Coca-Cola truck.
Speaking to PA Media, he said: “There was about eight of them I think,” he said.
“Eight people spoiling fun for thousands of people.
“They want the attention don’t they?
“And until they get the attention they’ll sit themselves down.”
The protest was in response to the London Pride parade accepting sponsorship money from “high-polluting industries”.
This incident comes just days after Just Stop Oil protestors ran onto the Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, on Wednesday with orange powder before the start of the second Ashes test between England and Australia.
Videos posted online showed officers picking up protesters and carrying them away.
Just Stop Oil had previously warned it may take action at Pride in London 2023
Just Stop Oil had previously warned it would take action as it called on organisers of the major event to ban floats from…
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