Even the newspapers are now reporting that Sisters Uncut took over the event.
And when I posted much earlier on the thread about Patsy being an actress (nobody is saying she is paid) it is part of the fact that SU are skilled manipulators of other people's political events.
And no SU were not protesting violence against women, they turned up with banners about defunding the police (see their twitter feed) and megaphones.
You dont need megaphones at a vigil.
Whether it was SU or Women's Strike or even the SWP in trying to take over the band stand to make speeches they clearly showed they had not respect for the purpose of the event, let alone Sarah and her family.
And again, as any who knows about street protest, part of the purpose is the spectacle, so you do something that will provoke the police, and that wait for the photos ops to arrive.
But however heavy handed the police were, by trying to turn it into a protest and by creating a focal point for speeches it encouraged a really large crowd to surge forward into a smaller and smaller space. It was a really dangerous thing to do.
And the original organisers who are saying if we have been in charge it wouldn't have happened, just show their political naivety.
Prior to this take over people were coming and laying flowers etc., and then moving on.
In fact without this attempt at rabble rousing is with other vigils it could have been possible to be there quietly all night in groups of mixing with others, sharing and reflecting. This is about people how see politics as a chance for confrontation and posturing.
Ironcially Sky news (I think) who went all solemn and we have investigated how the policing went so wrong showed with a series of over head shots of the park how people had been coming and going and mingling. How there was a minutes silence at 6pm and then a local Councillor who was attending asking people to leave quietly. And the police sort of trying to say yes please, move along now.
And then of bit later said and now you can hear Patsy (on some sort of megaphone) urging people not to leave, that the police had no right to do so.
And as I think I said before what is so strange is how the MSM are reporting this. If it had been some grubby male trot encouraging people to act with disrespect to the event, they would have been all over it.
Is it any wonder that so many male political groups love to push women to the front because they know that entrenched sexism in the media doesn't see women as having the same level of threat / political importance / manipulative skills / .... as men!