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A FIGUREHEAD of the Black Lives Matter movement who has given speeches alongside Star Wars actor John Boyega believes the campaign has been "hijacked" by a group of far-Left activists.

ImarnAyton, 29,said she organised the Black Lives Matter protest in London's Parliament Square on June 6 and a peaceful rally in Hyde Park on June 20.

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In an outspoken attack, she vented her fury at Black Lives Matter UK, the campaign group that has attracted more than 1m in donations.

Black Lives Matter UK has supported defunding the police, overthrowing capitalism and "targeted sanctions against Israel's apartheid regime".

Actress Imarn told the Mail on Sunday: "The Black Lives Matter movement is a separate entity to Black Lives Matter UK. I have no contact with Black Lives Matter UK and they have not been on the ground once.

"A lot of people assume they were the driving force behind the protest when in actual fact they just support the protests.

"The issue with BLM UK is they have not revealed themselves, they have not been transparent. They are abolitionists, they believe in the removal of prisons, smashing capitalism and abolishing the police."

Black Lives Matter UK was formed in 2016 but rose to prominence this year after the death of George Floyd in the US and a campaign in Britain to tear down statues of figures linked to slavery or colonialism.

A crowdfunding campaign launched by the group on June 2 has raised 1.1 million.

Last month the group was accused by Jewish groups of the "spread of hatred" after its official Twitter account put out a series of messages about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In a string of posts to its 60,000 followers, the account claimed British politics had been "gagged of the right to critique Zionism".

The BLM UK account wrote: "As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel's settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. FREE PALESTINE."

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Imarn, who lives in Peckham in South London, added: "I am just mortified because everyone has given money and they are not going to use that to better the black community. They are going to use it to abolish the police, remove prisons and get rid of capitalism.

"Why on earth would you donate 1 million to people that are not actually doing anything for the black community here and now?"

The 29-year-old said she wanted to remove the statue of Winston Churchill but believed in peaceful protests and blasted those who had vandalised monuments.

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She said: "We want equality - to be treated fairly - that is all that we ask for, and for justice for those who have been harmed.

"I am not here for vandalism, I am not here to tear down statues, because that does not help black people.

"Don't get me wrong, I want those statues down.

"But shouting at Boris Johnson outside Downing Street does not help black people.

"We are here for peace - black people are seen as violent, black people are seen as aggressive, and black people are seen as angry, so we are trying to stop that stigma."

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer warned the BLM message was getting "tangled up" and branded calls to defund the police "nonsense".

BLM UK hit back, tweeting that "as a public prosecutor, Sir Keir Starmer was a cop in an expensive suit".

It comes after Sir Keir sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey from her post as shadow education secretary after she refused to take down a tweet on an article containing an allegedly anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

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