‘Blade Runner’ Brazenly Sabotages Mayor Khan’s Emission Cams Using Tree Lopper

Written by Matt Strudwick on August 18, 2023. Posted in Current News

A ‘Blade Runner’ was seen sabotaging two of Sadiq Khan‘s much-hated ULEZ cameras as nearby diners nonchalantly watched on

A member from the secret activist group can be seen in a video purposefully walking into view and hoisting what appears to be a tree lopper in the air.

The hooded masked figure then strolls towards the ULEZ camera attached to a traffic light believed to be outside The Swan and Mitre Greene King pub in Bromley, south-east London, and snips the cable.

One woman smoking a cigarette looks around at the dark-clothed figure before carrying on with her conversation, while a bearded man with sunglasses on his head films the vandalism on his phone.

The camera then pans to the left as the Blade Runner casually walks to another ULEZ camera less than 300 feet away – opposite Bromley Magistrates’ Court – and uses the gardening tool to cut the wire which then can be seen dangling.

Bromley is part of the area where the ULEZ will soon expand with its local authority one of the coalition of councils who unsuccessfully challenged Mr Khan’s plans in the High Court.

It comes amid a campaign of anti-ULEZ action from the secretive group, who have targeted cameras elsewhere in London.

The Blade Runners vowed back in July they would stop at nothing until they had taken down every single one of the ULEZ cameras. 

That month an onlooker filmed a man calmly unscrewing one of the cameras as the hatred of the Mayor of London’s low-emission scheme began to grow as the expansion date drew nearer.

A month later a Blade Runner climbed a lamppost and used a drill to tear down an enforcement camera in Bromley.

The 28-second clip of the latest incident has received 183 reactions since it was posted on Facebook on Friday, with 127 likes and 52 heart emojis.

All of the 28 comments are positive with many quick to applaud and praise the activist. …

The London Mayor’s controversial scheme will force Londoners to pay £12.50-a-day to drive in Greater London from August 29, if their cars don’t meet certain environmental standards.

One of the secretive Blade Runners met with MailOnline and vowed: ‘We are going to take down every single one no matter what’.

Dressed in a balaclava to protect his identity, the father in his mid-forties revealed he had stolen 34 ULEZ cameras himself but his group and others like them have taken down hundreds.

He told MailOnline:

‘In terms of damage it’s way more than what [Khan and TfL] have stated. It’s at least a couple of hundred.

Snipping, damaging with hammers, painting, disabling on a circuit level, and removing. They are unbolted and they are snipped.

The tools they use to install them are the ones we use to remove it.‘

Mr. Khan has previously claimed the police take vandalism of ULEZ cameras ‘very seriously’.

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