XR activists use HAMMERS & MEISEL to smash glass in JP Morgan offices during fossil fuel protest in London (VIDEO)

Several members of the Extinction Rebellion deployed pink hammers and chisels to punch holes right through the glass front of investment bank JP Morgan’s offices in London’s financial district to protest the financing of fossil fuels.

footage from the scene showed the climate activists - one with “Stop the damage” written on the back - jump over a fence and start hitting the glass doors and windows of the financial services giant’s offices in the British city. A security guard stands nearby and speaks urgently into a telephone while at least four activists repeatedly knock on the glass.

Extinction Rebellion activists use hammers and chisels to break glass doors at JPMorgan as part of a two-week protest against the financial industry in London pic.twitter.com/EHACrScn4m

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The group said it targeted JP Morgan, Barclays and HSBC in its protests on Wednesday to highlight the roles of financial institutions in “Financing and accelerating the climate and the ecological emergency” by investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels.

Metropolitan Politi said in a statement that its officers had arrested eight people “After a group of activists smashed windows in a business premises at the Victoria Embankment."

Wednesday’s event is the latest in an ongoing series of protests in London, staged by the group, which said it would hold two weeks of demonstrations starting on 21 August.

Just days earlier were members of the group filmed was escorted from the city’s Tower Bridge by police, after blocking traffic across the iconic structure for hours. In a separate incident on Monday, police and XR activists clashed as the group tried to erect a tall wooden structure close to the French consulate and the London Science Museum in an attempt to block a busy intersection.

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