This is the extraordinary moment a lone woman waving a purple, white and green Suffragette flag was ‘manhandled’ by a gang of masked trans activists.
The unnamed woman supporting the campaign group Standing For Women (SFW) was assaulted during a counter-protest by the Manchester Trans Rise Up (MTRU) movement by the city’s statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter’s Square.
The two groups clashed after the trans activists arrived to disrupt SFW’s speaking event in front of the statue as part of an event which said it aimed to reclaim ‘a part of Manchester for women’s voices’.
And one woman with a suffragette flag was attacked by the masked mob, described online as men and trans men, who tried to pull her down off a wall and grabbed her by the arms – but she clung on to her flag. And remarkably a police officer at the scene appears to lecture the assaulted woman, rather than tackle the group in balaclavas.
Footage of the incident also suggests that trans activists were yelling that…
