BREAKING: Green London Assembly member Caroline Russell arrested

Green Party politician and member of the London Assembly Caroline Russell was arrested today. The arrest took place at the London demonstration against Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament in Trafalgar Square. Russell was among a number of protesters arrested after refusing to leave a road, having been asked to do so by police.
Russell’s arrest was caught on camera by Guardian reporter Simon Murphy:
Another arrest has been made. pic.twitter.com/ocXCubkMVp
— Simon Murphy (@murphy_simon) August 31, 2019
Speaking on the arrest, Russell’s London Assembly colleague and co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales Sian Berry said:
Earlier today, I was speaking at the main rally of the Defend Our Democracy protest. I said then that we were calmly determined not to have our rights chipped away. Protest, and direct action were needed, I said then.
I’m proud that Caroline has been at the forefront, with others, of showing that determination.
History tells us that all the rights we have we had to win. No one has ever handed them to us.
And Caroline and the others on the streets in London today were defending those hard-won rights that are now under attack from Boris Johnson.
We, the people, will come back on the streets again and again in the coming weeks of national crisis to defend our MPs and win our final say.
We will keep saying to Boris Johnson, to Jacob Rees-Mogg, to Dominic Raab – your actions do not represent us
If you abuse power, we the people will make sure you won’t be in power much longer.
Appalling by this hard right suedo dictatorship.If Mogg thinks he speaks for the country he is totally wrong. It is bad enough not having PR , who does he think he is – Putin ,well maybe he just does! Like all the Eton cons they think they can what they like. There you are Leave people,this a taste of it to come,no NHS,no jobs, no money , no help. They don’t care about you they care about themselves, making money!
There shouldn’t have been a situation where everyone had to protest and people got arrested. It is pure madness. The situation in the UK is a complete catastrophe and I hope the people are released and something is done about it all.