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Why Is BLM At London-Heathrow? Here’s A Video Of Them Getting Arrested

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Ten people from the British extension of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement were arrested Friday as they protested at a London airport.

BLM protesters blocked a road leading to Heathrow Airport, reports Reuters. Police held four protesters in custody and tried to untangle six protesters who had locked arms with each other to try and block the road.

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The protest caused traffic to back up on the road leading to the airport as protesters laid themselves on the road underneath a banner reading, “This is a crisis.”

The protest is being held to observe the anniversary of the shooting of Mark Duggan, a black man who was shot five years ago. Other protests are being staged in Birmingham and Nottingham.

“In the UK, families have in some cases been waiting decades to find out what’s happened to their loved ones who have died in custody, or to get a straight answer — even where wrongdoing has been found to be by police officers,” Wail Qasim, the spokesperson for Black Lives Matter UK, told CNN.

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