{"id":209858,"date":"2020-07-06T06:11:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209858"},"modified":"2020-09-20T07:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T07:49:42","slug":"actress-behind-blm-protest-in-whitehall-disowns-marxist-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209858","title":{"rendered":"Actress behind BLM protest in Whitehall disowns &#8216;Marxist&#8217; Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mark Hookham \u2013 Daily Mail July 4, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A prominent organiser of Britain\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/black-lives-matter\/index.html\"><strong>Black Lives Matter<\/strong><\/a><\/span> protests believes the campaign has been \u2018hijacked\u2019 by a group of far-Left activists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In an outspoken attack, Imarn Ayton, 29, also voiced fears that people may have donated towards a high-profile online fundraising campaign without realising that those behind it want to tear down capitalism and abolish the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ms Ayton, an activist and actress, said she organised the Black Lives Matter rally in <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">London<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u2019s Parliament Square on June 6 and a peaceful protest in Hyde Park on June 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_209861\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Imarn-Ayton-pictured-a-prominent-organiser-of-the-Black-Lives-Matter-protests-in-the-UK-believes-the-group-has-been-hijacked-by-far-left-radicals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209861\" class=\"wp-image-209861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Imarn-Ayton-pictured-a-prominent-organiser-of-the-Black-Lives-Matter-protests-in-the-UK-believes-the-group-has-been-hijacked-by-far-left-radicals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Imarn-Ayton-pictured-a-prominent-organiser-of-the-Black-Lives-Matter-protests-in-the-UK-believes-the-group-has-been-hijacked-by-far-left-radicals.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Imarn-Ayton-pictured-a-prominent-organiser-of-the-Black-Lives-Matter-protests-in-the-UK-believes-the-group-has-been-hijacked-by-far-left-radicals-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-209861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imarn Ayton (pictured), a prominent organiser of the Black Lives Matter protests in the UK believes the group has been hijacked by far left radicals. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She claimed that Black Lives Matter UK, the campaign group behind the fundraising campaign that has raised more than \u00a31 million, had not been involved in organising the demonstrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018A lot of people assume they were the driving force behind the protest when in actual fact they just support the protests,\u2019 she told The Mail on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018The BLM movement is a separate entity to BLM UK. I have no contact with BLM UK and they have not been on the ground once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018The issue with BLM UK is they have not revealed themselves, they have not been transparent. They are abolitionists, they believe in the removal of prisons, smashing capitalism and abolishing the police.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8490319\/Actress-BLM-rally-Whitehall-disowns-Black-Lives-Matter-UK-hijacked-far-Left.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress says Black Lives Matter has been \u2018hijacked&#8217; by far-Left activists who want to tear down capitalism and abolish the police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213802,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209858\/revisions\/213802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}