Viral Image Shows Black Man Carrying Injured 'White Counter-Protester'

A black man carried an alleged counter-protester to safety after the latter was injured during an anti-racism protest in London on Saturday (June 13).

The man, identified as Patrick Hutchinson, was photographed carrying an injured white man to safety as his friends protected them from attackers. He mentioned that this was the first "Black Lives Matter" protest that he had attended.

He said he initially saw the man lying down on the stairs surrounded by protesters and immediately helped him as he wanted to avoid "a catastrophe".

At the time, he said he didn't realize that the man could be a counter-protestor. He just wanted to get him to a safer place.

"My real focus was on avoiding a catastrophe, all of a sudden the narrative changes into 'Black Lives Matters, Youngsters Kill Protesters.' That was the message we were trying to avoid," he told CNN.

When Hutchinson and his friends saw the man, they immediately formed a barrier around him after which, he picked up the man and carried him to the police. He also said that people were trying to attack the injured man while he was carrying him.

"I am carrying him, my friends are protecting myself and the man on my shoulder. He was still receiving blows, you can feel people trying to hit him. There were people trying to protect him at the same time carried him over to the police and I said here you are,” Hutchinson added.

“One of them said 'thank you - you did a good thing there',” he added.

Hutchinson said he attended the protest as "history was in the making" and added that it was a "no brainer" to support the cause.

"I want to see equality for everybody. I am a father, a grandfather and I would love to see my young children, my young grandchildren, my nieces, my nephews have a better world than I have lived in. The world I live in has been better than my grandparents and my parents and hopefully we can continue until we have total equality for everyone,” he said.

The selfless act was caught on camera and has gone viral on social media.

There have been numerous anti-racism protests in the United Kingdom and around the world following the death of George Floyd. Nearly 100 people were arrested in London on Saturday after violence erupted between white demonstrators, some of whom were members of far-right groups, and the Black Lives Matter protesters.