Thank you LndnMummy
"Context" is what abusers and their supporters and enablers attempt to use as justification. I wouldn't dialogue with anybody of that ilk so I'm not reading through much of this thread.
Not even police officers are allowed to use a choke hold. SIA registered staff go through training. The law allows for reasonable force, ie restraint, not a choke hold that can easily go wrong. This man was twice her size and his life was never in danger.
She works in a hairdresser off Rye Lane and spends money in that shop regularly. If ever there was a defining moment to show Black Women how deeply much of society hates them and wants to keep them down, unto the point of people with no skin in the game frothing because we are no longer going to be funding the lavish lifestyles of those who hate us yet want and need our money, then this is it.
Racists, the total lie of the shoplifting story, and ITV News bringing on an Asian woman with an anti-Black stance (presumably then, there's justification for Asian men using brute force so hey, why not any man then?) is just spurring people on to cut off the income of those who disrespect us.
Yes it is heartening to see the community support. This thread doesn't matter. Here in South London does, and people aren't standing for violence against a woman. A colleague was speaking about it today, he (White male) was also at the protest; he was showing me TikTok re this incident - 1000s of Black Women + supporters of Black Women sharing details of Black owned hair shops, Black online suppliers, in London and beyond. I saw some places I didn't even know about. Onwards.