Horse bolts past crowd during clashes at London march | George Floyd protests

Thousands of people gathered in London and across the country yesterday to demonstrate against the brutal killing of George Floyd in the US – despite police and ministers urging them to stay away for fear of spreading Covid-19. After a day of overwhelmingly peaceful protests across the country, a section of the London march descended into ugly violence, with clashes in Whitehall near the gates to No 10. Some of the crowd threw flares, bottles and sticks as police on horseback attempted to push them back a