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Soldiers from the Household Cavalry began scrubbing away grafitti with horse-grooming brushes from the Earl Haig statue in London as they were heckled by protesters. In video footage, demonstraters can be heard blasting them for cleaning “their precious memorial” after thousands took to the streets to campaign for Black Lives Matter. The grafitii read ACAB which stands for ‘All cops are b******s’.

In the clip, a woman can be heard saying: “Couldn’t even wait a day. Not one day, because of their precious memorial.”

Another added: “Excuse me when I saw you earlier you all picked up signs and put them in bin bags. Why did you pick them up? I don’t understand.”

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence confirmed to MailOnline it was members of the Household Cavalry who cleaned the statue.

They told the publication: “They were in the area because their head office is nearby and they noticed the graffiti and wanted to go out and clean it.

“They asked permission and the commander was happy for them to do so as long as they stayed safe.”

Sharing the video online, former Tory MEP Daniel Hannan said: “Young people abused for cleaning up graffiti. Still convinced that these protests are some kind of benign movement for racial justice?”

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