Furious students tear down ‘new lockdown fences’ during passionate protest against Manchester University’s decision to ‘pen them in.’ Image from Twitter
While the U.S. Presidential elections continues to dominate the media in the U.S., citizens all across the U.K. protested the nation’s new lockdowns this week.
At Manchester University, students woke up on the first day of lockdowns to find fences had been erected around their dormitories, penning them in like a prison.
They had apparently had enough, and by that evening, the fences were tore down, and the University backed down.
Students at the University of Manchester have ripped down ‘lockdown’ fencing that was installed without warning at their Fallowfield campus.
Hundreds of students staged a protest on Thursday night, after the university erected metal fencing at halls of residences including Owens Park and Unsworth Park.
Earlier in the day, the university had issued a statement saying the fencing was put in place as a security measure as England enters another four week lockdown.
But they were heavily criticised by some students and parents for ‘penning them in’, with students only learning what was happening when they woke up to find the fencing being erected.
Shortly before 9pm, around an hour after the protests began, the university issued an apology, and said the fencing would be removed on Friday morning.
But by then a number of the fences had already been ripped down during the demonstration. A number of videos were shared on social media, showing the fences coming down. (Source[3].)
