On the news that the man had been released on bail, Mr Popula told the PA: “He has been released, the peaceful protest is powerful.”
A woman who gave her name only as Nicola – and who is an activist with the South London branch of Stand Up To Racism – said police had “given up” their attempts to arrest people at the scene.
She told the PA: “Police tried to arrest a number of activists at the front, but they were detained by others who were also sitting and the police refused.
“Finally, after many protests, the police announced that they would release him (arrests) and it took, I don’t know, about half an hour to open the doors, so we all stayed and called for this to happen quickly.”
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