A UK feminist has been attacked by masked pro-trans Antifa activists in front of a statue of a leading Suffragette.
On Sunday, 44-year-old Aleks Kovacevic protested by a statue of feminist icon Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester against the trans movement’s impact on biological women. Kovacevic was protesting for the organisation Standing For Women (SFW) and holding a suffragette flag.
However, footage surfaced online of a masked Antifa mob dressed in black accosting her, with one Antifa member who appears to be male attempting to physically remove Kovacevic from the area.
Trans rights activists manhandling lone woman. pic.twitter.com/FNksbmtuoN
— Susan “The Actual Susan” McDonnell (@sleeepysandy) May 15, 2022
According to Andy Ngo, an expert in Leftwing radical groups, the group was identified as the UK Antifa cell known as the Anarchist Federation.
After the clip went viral, amassing millions of views, Harry Potter author JK Rowling responded to the footage on Twitter.
I never expected the right side of history to include so many people in masks intimidating and assaulting
women, did you?
But she never dropped her flag. Emmelline would be proud.
💜🤍💚 https://t.co/Le7Kr7bmCb— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 15, 2022
“I never expected the right side of history to include so many people in masks intimidating and assaulting women, did you?” she said.
She added: “But she never dropped her flag. Emmelline would be proud.”
Speaking to the Telegraph following the incident, Kovacevic claimed that police had sided with Antifa and threatened to arrest her for “disturbing the peace” after the incident took place.
“The police came and told me that I needed to move, but my friend told me I didn’t need to move and I said ‘yes, as a matter of fact, I don’t have to move, I have the right to sit here’” she said.
“And [a police officer] told me if anything happens I will be arrested for causing a breach of the peace.”
She also claimed that the police failed to help her as she was being attacked, with her friends and an unknown man being forced in to help her as officers allegedly watched on.
“We are literally a group of five middle-aged women. I climbed on the wall and one of [the counter-protesters] clung on to my leg and tried to pull me off, but when I jumped off the wall three of them just attacked me.
“Some were pushing me, some were pulling me. They lost their way a little bit, one pushed me so hard that I had to sit down.”