Anger sweeps UK over murder of woman by cop, police clashes with protesters in London

Clashes broke out Saturday between the Metropolitan Police and people who gathered at an unofficial vigil for a London woman who was abducted and murdered by a cop. The killing of Sarah Everard has spurred a national conversation in the UK about violence against women.

Police in London clashed with mourners and protesters on Saturday after more than a thousand people gathered to mark the killing of a 33-year-old woman, hours after the police officer charged with her murder appeared in court. People gathered at Clapham Common Bandstand in south London this afternoon to pay tribute to Sarah Everard pic.twitter.com/PMXwQ55F3u Women being snatched by police at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Shameful, shameful scenes. pic.twitter.com/fyUqcfCyug Sarah Everard’s disappearance as she walked home on the evening of March 3 had led to a wave of accounts from women about the dangers of walking streets alone at night, and dismay at the failure of police and wider society to tackle this. Early on Saturday, an impromptu memorial with flowers and candles sprang up around the bandstand on Clapham Common in southwest London, near where Everard was last seen alive.