Furious commuters drag Extinction Rebellion protestors off train

Religious fanatics will always overplay their hand.

Two protesters in London had stopped the Jubilee line train by standing on top of it with a banner. Two more were planning to glue themselves to the train, but the crowd was fed up. Mahatir Pasha‏ is a journalist for ITV News who apparently witnessed and filmed the furious commuters. He writes on twitter: “One commuter shouted “I need to get to work, I have to feed my kids,” when the protestors initially went up.” Then there was the “shocking moment angry commuters drag two #ExtinctionRebellion protestors off the top of a train in Canning Town and attack them.”

The crowd cheered as the protesters and their banner were removed, and though people called for calm, some got violent. In an awful moment, one of the protesters was kicked and bruised.

This is what happens when people don’t sort out differences by speaking freely.

Quash speech and it always ends in a mob.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

The protesters shouldn’t have been there, the mob shouldn’t have got violent.

At the moment all XR protests have been banned across London, which is being challenged […]