'Irresponsible' Labour MP Ms Abbott, 67, has been slammed by Home Office sources for stoking 'tensions' after linking the shooting of Sasha Johnson to her fight for racial justice, despite Met Office statements that denied any link to Johnson's activism and the attack. The left-wing politician was called out by LBC host Iain Dale (left) and later Emily Maitlis on Newsnight (right) after she had earlier associated the shooting of Sasha Johnson to her Black Lives Matter activism in a much criticised tweet. Ms Abbott had said: 'Nobody should have to potentially pay with their life because they stood up for racial justice' (inset bottom), to which Mr Dale pointed out there was no evidence that this was a deliberate hit on the self-styled 'Black Panther of Oxford'. While mother of two Ms Johnson, 27, fights for her life in hospital, Scotland Yard has today reiterated there is no information to suggest she was the subject of 'a targeted attack'. Mail.
