Police Chief Questions Just Stop Oil Media Coverage

Police Chief Questions Just Stop Oil Media Coverage
Police officers detain a Just Stop Oil protester who had climbed a gantry on the M25 in Surrey, England, on Nov. 7, 2022. PA Media/Surrey Police
Owen Evans
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The Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) said that journalists should be “thinking about” whether it was right to give eco-activists Just Stop Oil the “oxygen of publicity.”

David Lloyd told LBC’s Nick Ferrari on Thursday that officers may have “got it wrong” after LBC reporter Charlotte Lynch was detained while reporting on Just Stop Oil, which is currently causing widespread disruption on the M25, the UK’s busiest motorway.
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