Trump supporters tried to arrest London's mayor. People laughed at them.
An anti-Islamic nationalist wheeled a homemade gallows into central London, led a group of men into a conference hall and attempted to "arrest" the city's first Muslim mayor as he gave a speech on Saturday.
The group failed, and was eventually escorted out by the same police officers they had asked to apprehend Mayor Sadiq Khan. They still managed to delay the speech for 15 minutes as
they accused Khan of treachery, tyranny and disrespecting President Donald Trump.
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A guard walked over to Russell, who seemed to have been expecting a challenge.
"We are under common law jurisdiction!" Russell cried. "If you touch us, you will be done for common assault. We're not leaving."
But the guard persisted, and soon Russell was arguing: "I paid for a ticket! Do not touch me," he said. "We have paid for a ticket. . . . OK, so we want the money back for the ticket then. We cannot be reimbursed for the ticket. We cannot be reimbursed!"
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A small, mostly curious crowd formed around the men as they lingered by the auditorium wall, accusing Khan of subverting British law, without ever explaining how.
When a reporter asked under what authority they planned to arrest the mayor, one of the Pendragons cited the Magna Carta.
Police had still not arrived after 10 minutes or so. One of the Pendragons walked up to Khan's table
and showed him an American flag, which he was holding backward.
"Mr. Khan," the man said, "there's millions of British people supporting Donald Trump."
The audience booed especially loudly at this. "Good one!" Russell cheered.
"Please sit down, sir," Green said. So the man walked back to Russell,
holding his flag up to the news cameras, still holding it the wrong way.
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After a quarter-hour standoff, Russell pointed his cellphone at his own face and happily announced to his Facebook viewers: "There's an inspector outside we have to speak to now over these charges against Sadiq Khan."
But when the constable walked into the room, he simply told Russell: "You'll have to leave now."
Russell handed the officer a sheet of paper outlining his complaints.
One of them cited the Coronation Oath Act of 1688. The officer looked at it. "We are going to investigate," he promised, not entirely convincingly.
"Well, the grounds for the arrest are all there," Russell said.
"We don't do citizen's arrests," the officer explained. "We do lawful arrests."