Monday, 15 June_A Black Lives Matter supporter who took an alleged far-right demonstrator to safety amid violence in London has said he "didn’t even think twice about doing it".
A photograph showing Patrick Hutchinson lifting the injured white man away from a melee on Saturday, which is trending on social media, was taken as hundreds of demonstrators, some of whom belong to far-right groups and organizations, clashed with police in central London's Parliament Square.
These events unfolded as groups of football hooligans and far-right supporters took to the streets in response to recent Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The photo has been held up by Labour MP Florence Eshalomi as a "powerful symbol" amid a weekend of division and confrontation between right-wing protesters and anti-racism activists in the capital.
Hutchinson told ITV News: "I didn’t even think twice about doing it, it was just an instinct. I didn’t see color I just saw a human being on the floor possibly coming to his end.”
Hutchinson, who is a personal trainer and a grandfather, said he gone to the event with his friends, a group of security and martial arts experts, in a bid to protect anti-racist activists on a protest march through London.
In a separate interview with Channel 4 News, Mr Hutchinson said: "If the other three police officers who were standing around when George Floyd was murdered had thought about intervening like what we did, George Floyd would be alive today."
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