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Police have said the gathering at Clapham Common is “unsafe”, and urged people to go home.
A tweet from the Lambeth police account said:
The gathering at #ClaphamCommon is unsafe. Hundreds of people are tightly packed together in breach of the regulations and risking public health.
We are urging people to go home and we thank those who have been engaging with officers and who are leaving.#ReclaimTheseStreets
Scenes from Clapham Common.
This could have been the socially distanced vigil the community needed to remember Sarah and all the women who have lost their lives to violence.
We knew what was going to happen if the event was shut down #ReclaimTheseStreets pic.twitter.com/U29BrQW3zF
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