"She was just trying to get home..."
A vigil for Sarah Everard turned violent after police clashed with mourners in London. Her murder has caused an outpouring of women calling out the police for victim-blaming.
A vigil for Sarah Everard turned violent after police clashed with mourners in London. Her murder has caused an outpouring of women calling out the police for victim-blaming.
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00:00Hey!
00:01Arrest Scholar!
00:03Arrest Scholar!
00:05Who do you serve? Who do you protect?
00:07Black Caucus! Black Caucus! Black Caucus!
00:41We're not safe and it's not like it's not her fault and we're consistently told like
01:01take self-defense classes, learn how to do this.
01:05This morning, one of the MPs was saying how she changes her shoes so she can be in shoes
01:09that she can run in.
01:10Those type of things and like that we're supposed to protect ourselves and we don't really finish
01:14that sentence.
01:15Who are we protecting ourselves from?
01:34She did everything that you're told to do.
01:37It's like she's walking down, it's a real, it's a quite a main road that road next to it.
01:41It's not like she was walking down a little back alley anywhere.
01:44It's a busy road, it's well lit, she was on the phone to like on the phone to her boyfriend,
01:50like wearing bright clothes.
01:52It was like half past nine at night, it's not even late.
02:07She was just trying to get home and then to have the original guidance be like not go
02:12out after dark and like this is not okay.
02:16We're adults and we deserve to be treated with the respect we like we should be able
02:19to go home, we should be able to jog when we want, we should be able to live our lives
02:22fully and not in fear.
02:38You're looking at Twitter and you're seeing so many women talk about their stories and
02:45just how they've had to change their whole way of living for years and it literally goes
02:49back years and years and years and nothing has changed.
03:07It's the women getting blamed for what they're not doing, the things they're doing wrong,
03:12what they should have done, what they could have done, rather than looking at the actual
03:16causes of the rapes and the murders, which is the men raping and murdering them.
03:21It's not the women, is it?
03:34The one thing that I have seen that has been really good is the amount of men who have
03:37come out and said, I never even considered this, like I should learn about it, I think.
03:42And I also think a lot of people don't realise not to walk behind somebody or not to, not
03:48that they're doing it on purpose, but I think people just genuinely don't realise that someone
03:51else could be quite scared by that.
04:07The fact that the man who's been arrested is a serving Metropolitan Police officer is
04:18both shocking and deeply disturbing.
04:21I recognise the significant concern this will cause.
04:33I think it's sad that something that could have been really beautiful and peaceful and
04:37respectful was allowed to turn into this violent kind of mess that didn't help anyone
04:43and was completely unnecessary.
04:44I think the Metropolitan Police have woefully mishandled it.
04:47They should have sat down with those women's organisations who are not exactly a lawless
04:52mob.
04:53They are just women who want to call attention to this awful situation.
04:57We need proper action taken and we need it taken now.