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Live feed Show. Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick also appealed for the public to understand the fiendishly difficult situation faced by officers. Ms Dick said she feels more determined, not less to lead the organisation following the Met Polices widely condemned handling of the event. The event - named Reclaim These Streets - has been promoted on social media and calls for the safety for women when they are outside, regardless of the time of day or night, of what they are wearing or where they live. Now, our reporters on the scene tell us attendees have started to make their way to Parliament Square, with many carrying signs condemning police violence and sexual harassment and violence against women. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Asked if she felt she owed an apology to her frontline officers, Dame Cressida Dick said: I feel for my officers, I feel for them every day.. From shadow justice secretary David Lammy. Mr Khan said he is requesting multiple reviews after being left not satisfied with an explanation for officers actions from Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick. Follow our live blog for the latest developments on the Sarah Everard case. Instead, we are seeing traumatic and disturbing scenes by the @metpoliceuk at #claphamcommon. Many were seen placing flowers at a bandstand where a planned vigil The demonstration has now moved from Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square. Patsy Stevenson was pictured being restrained on the ground with her hands cuffed behind her back at the event at Clapham Common last night. 2021 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called for Met commissioner Dame Cressida Dick to consider her leadership of the force. The 33-year Home Secretary Priti Patel feels there are still questions to be answered following the Met Polices explanation of its response to Saturdays vigil, a Home Office spokesperson has said. Political leaders should be doing much more to support the police officers they have put in this impossible position. A A large bandstand at Clapham Common, both were Sarah Everard was last seen alive and where the in-person vigil was scheduled to take place, has been covered with flowers in Dozens of people could be seen gathering outside Scotland Yard, chanting shame on you over the Met Polices response to Saturdays vigil for Sarah in Clapham Common. A protest by feminist group Sisters Uncut is planned outside New Scotland Yard at 4pm this afternoon in response to the actions of officers on Clapham Common. People across the country will be shocked at the brutality and want answers as to how this was allowed to happen. COPS stormed tearful mourners last night after hundreds flocked to the Sarah Everard vigil on Clapham Common. He said he was in contact with Met commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, and was urgently seeking an explanation. It seem unlikely that the message will deter those making their way to Sundays demonstration, with crowds already forming outside Scotland Yard. The campaigners posted on social media this morning: "A police force already drunk on power cannot be trusted with more." Damned if we do. The scenes in Clapham are deeply distressing. The home secretary Priti Patel has said she has asked the Metropolitan Police for a full report on what happened after the upsetting footage circulated online. Political correspondent Ashley Cowburn has the story here: Khan orders full independent investigation into events at Clapham Common. earful mourners gathered at Clapham Bandstand on Saturday to pay tribute to Sarah Everard. Priti Patel demands Met explain what happened at Clapham vigil, Women report feeling silenced as vigils cancelled, Always with keys out: women tell of fear of walking alone, Boris Johnson comes under pressure to make UK safer for women. Sarahs memory deserved better. Police have clashed with mourners defying the ban to attend a vigil for Sarah Everard and take part on a protest for womens safety on Clapham Common. Another reader, Aeshah, 22, said a few hundred people attended a vigil at College Green in Bristol, after the official event was cancelled.