Metropolitan police officers seized the equipment of Steve Bray, the activist known as Stop Brexit Man, in an attempt to enforce a new protest law that came into effect on Tuesday. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act introduced an offence of intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance, in an effort to crack down on disruptive guerrilla protests. These are the sort of tactics that have been used by climate change protesters who have taken their campaigns to the streets
Police swoop on Stop Brexit Man under new anti-protest law
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