On Wednesday afternoon a police officer was stabbed and killed by an assailant outside the British Houses of Parliament.
A car then plouged into a crowd of people on Westminster bridge, killing one woman and injuring at least 10. Three French teenagers on a school trip to London were also badly injured in the attack.
At the moment, the situation remains fluid and facts are scarce. indy100 is updating their page with exactly what we know and what we don't know throughout the evening.
Elsewhere on the internet, Donald Trump Jr, Donald Trump's eldest son, decided to share an article from seven months ago.
Mr Trump Jr shared an Independent article titled: Sadiq Khan: 'London mayor says terror attacks 'part and parcel' of living in a major city.'
You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan https://t.co/uSm2pwRTjO
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 22, 2017
His comment alongside the article read:
You have to be kidding me?!
The article was originally posted in September 2016, and was a plea from the Mayor for Londoners to be vigilant to the dangers of living in a big city.
The Mayor told the Evening Standard that he had many 'sleepless nights' after a bombing in New York last year, and said that London needs to be prepared for these kinds of attacks.
He added:
That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities, it means the security services being ready, but it also means exchanging ideas and best practice.
Donald Trump Jr's choice to share a seven month old article, seemingly without reading it or pointing out that it was an old quote, was received with disbelief and overwhelming denigration.
Channel 4's Ciaran Jenkins asked if Mr Trump Jr had even read the article "before goading London's Mayor during a live incident'.
Is this helpful @DonaldJTrumpJr? Did you even read the article before goading London's Mayor during a live incident?https://t.co/Sm68UOcJQG
— Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) March 22, 2017
Headline is based on very first sentence, which if you'd bothered to read it could apply to any major city in the world. Key word: "threat" pic.twitter.com/u2S9WA7yoA
— Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) March 22, 2017
Tom Coates was much more to the point:
@DonaldJTrumpJr Go fuck yourself. As a Londoner who lived through the IRA, anti gay nail bombings and 7/7, this is not the time to be cock.
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) March 22, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr Khan is right. These things happen. We fight against them. But we don't wildly over-react or let them change our way of life
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) March 22, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr And we absolutely don't choose to scapegoat whole communities to make ourselves feel better. Now shut the hell up.
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) March 22, 2017
Many other people roundly criticised him.
How dare you @DonaldJTrumpJr you take an article from @MayorofLondon from a year ago and do this at a time like this. #London
— Yasmin Khatun Dewan (@Yasm1nK) March 22, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr how DARE you post this as if he said it today.
— Marie Donn (@Marie_Donn) March 22, 2017
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