Tommy Robinson pepper sprayed by police after ’resisting arrest’ during march against anti-semitism

Tommy Robinson was pepper sprayed by police as he was arrested during Sunday’s March Against Anti-Semitism in central London after previously being told by organisers to stay away. The English Defence League founder was detained by dozens of officers near the Royal Courts of Justice, where the rally attended by tens of thousands of people started. Photos and video from the scene show the 40-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, with his eyes partially closed after synthetic pepper spray was used on him. The Metropolitan Police has said the substance was used after he ’resisted as officers attempted to put him in handcuffs’ having being ’warned repeatedly’ it would be sprayed. Mr Robinson had claimed he was attending the rally, which was the biggest protest against anti-Semitism in London since 1936, ’as a journalist’, but the march’s organisers had raised concerns his attendance would ’cause fear for other participants’. #dailymail #TommyRobinson #a