Anti-vaxxers with 'cease and desist notice' moved on by police from Covid-19 jab clinic after wrongly claiming 'crimes' were being committed
24.01.2022 - 17:23
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Police were called after a group of anti-vaxxers tried to present a 'cease and desist notice' at a pop-up Covid-19 jab clinic and falsely claimed police were investigating 'crimes' being committed.
Video footage of the moment Greater Manchester Police intervened at Trinity Methodist Church in Stockport is being shared on social media.
Campaigners are using a police 'crime number' - and wrongly claiming an investigation is ongoing - to allege vaccination centres are breaking the law and jabs are dangerous.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed a crime number was issued after the submission of documents last month at a London police station 'in support of allegations of criminality in relation to the UK's vaccine programme'.
But the force said the number 'merely acknowledges that an allegation has been received and recorded' - and no criminal investigation has been launched.
The small group went to the church off Bramhall Lane South last Thursday.
Greater Manchester Police said officers were called to reports of a disturbance and later 'dispersed' the group.
The video footage shows them being told to leave by police.
One attempts to present the letter to a security guard at the same time as speaking to police on the phone.
He claims a 'crime' was being committed and asks police to come and 'seize the evidence'.
"We are here to prevent a crime," the man says.
"We are telling you that a crime is being committed.
"We, as any person, can use reasonable force to prevent a crime from being committed.
"There are crimes being committed here now in the Methodist church and we would like you to come down and seize the evidence of these crimes."
He wrongly says there's 'a live criminal case happening'.
The man claims to have evidence