‘Wrong place, wrong time’: Friends hold vigil for ‘Black Panther of Oxford’ Sasha Johnson as it emerges she was caught in crossfire when drive-by gunmen targeted house party in gang dispute
Friends have held a vigil for a British Black Lives Matter leader who took a bullet in the head when a London gang carried out a botched drive-by shooting to assassinate a rival at the end of an all-day party.
Demonstrators gathered at the bandstand in Ruskin Park, Lambeth, to ‘pray’ for Sasha Johnson, 27 – the self-styled ‘Black Panther of Oxford’ who called for the police to be defunded after the murder of George Floyd and helped lead the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign to topple controversial statues.
The activist is fighting for her life in hospital following the attack in Peckham, which her political party claimed came after she received multiple death threats.
Last night her “activist” friends were attempting to gin this up as a political assassination.
