Canadian activist “Billboard Chris” has been highly critical of the Metropolitan Police after he had an ice cream dumped on his head at a pro-Palestine rally in London on Saturday.
The campaigner – real name Chris Elston – was on the rally wearing his billboard reading, “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers” and “Gender ideology doesn’t belong in schools”, when an unknown assailant slammed a bath of ice cream on his head.
Thankfully unharmed, Elston immediately asked nearby law enforcement officials to arrest the person, whose attack was caught on video.
He says the police declined to take motion until Elston gave them his personal details. According to Elston, officers didn’t reply to his requests that they fight to arrest the person before he could slip away.
After around 10 minutes and after chatting with several different officers, a few of whom said they weren’t permitted to go away their posts on the protests, Elston finally gave an officer his personal details. Even after this, he says the police didn’t search for the alleged perpetrator, despite a few of them being shown footage of the assault.
Elston then decided to search for the person himself and although he couldn’t find him, he did manage to search out a friend of the person.
Towards the top of the video Elston may very well be seen surrounded by an indignant mob of pro-Palestine activists who were shouting at him over his failure to sentence Israel.
At this point the police did intervene and escorted him out of the protest zone for his own safety, something Elston said he appreciated and understood.
In an announcement on X, Elston called the Metropolitan Police “castrated”.
“I used to be assaulted in London today with a bath of ice cream smacked on top of my head. Police officer after police officer refused to do anything. He must have been arrested in seconds. All [they] desired to do was take down my personal details. I’ve handled police greater than 300 times and I knew inside seconds they weren’t going to do a thing about it.
“They said a couple of times they’d go find him with me after I gave my details and showed them the video evidence, but in fact that was a lie, so I went to go find him myself. I used to be then surrounded by an indignant mob demanding I condemn Israel.
“Naturally, police removed me. That whole scene would have been avoided in the event that they did their job and arrested the ice cream perp. Just one other day telling the reality in a world gone mad.”
The Metropolitan Police have been contacted for comment.
In a follow-up post on X, Elston hit out at Christian leaders who fail to talk out on the difficulty. He claimed that plenty of “Christian leaders would fire Jesus Christ if he was working for them”.
“They would say ‘Jesus, we such as you, but you possibly can’t go around flipping tables within the temple! You’re too extreme. You can’t be upsetting the Sanhedrin, Jesus. They are the keepers of the law, and additionally they donate to us. Tone it down!’” he said.
Elston has travelled around the globe along with his billboard. His latest stop was Glasgow, Scotland.
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