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Bereaved families demand government holds emergency meeting to tackle violent crime
Anti-knife crime campaigners on Westminster Bridge in central London, calling for action over recent bloodshed today

BEREAVED families outside Downing Street today demanded that the government holds a Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (Cobra) emergency meeting to help tackle the rise of knife crime on Britain’s streets.

Hundreds of protesters stood in Whitehall for #OperationShutdown to demand that the government takes urgent action in the way that it would in response to terrorism.

Organiser Lucy Martindale, whose cousin was fatally stabbed, said: “If there is a terrorist attack and one person is killed there is a Cobra meeting.

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