Just Stop Oil eco activists appear to be ‘playing dead’ as their latest tactic to wreak havoc on the capital as officers were forced to drag their slumped bodies into the back of police vans.
Protestors were filmed using their bodies as deadweights as up to three officers at a time picked them up and carried them into the back of vans during a slow march in Whitehall on Monday morning.
Met Police officers – who made 62 arrests in total as the group kicked off three weeks of disruption hell – can be seen struggling to move them out the way of the road.
Footage, filmed outside the Palace of Westminster, show a horde of activists opening up placards in the street and beginning to trudge down the road.
It is the first day of the campaign group’s planned three weeks of action across London which they claim will cause mayhem on an ‘unprecedented scale.’
One older woman is filmed as she sits limp against a wall, with her head falling on her chest
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