Sadiq Khan said "the police have a responsibility to enforce Covid laws but from images I've seen it's clear the response was at times neither appropriate nor proportionate."
Placards reading "we will not be silenced" and "she was just walking home" were on display wile the crowd chanted "sisters will never be defeated".
The week's news agenda and the reaction to it has shown we still have a lot to learn.
Even before the pandemic, Boris Johnson said he didn’t want to hear “that word” again. So, what are they saying instead?
“I take responsibility for my actions and draw the necessary political consequences," Nikolas Loebel said.
"Cancelling a programme because it isn't right-wing enough is an astonishing admission of corporate political bias towards the right."
Organisers claim that “forcing us to cancel” would be “silencing thousands of women who want to honour Sarah’s memory and stand up for our right to feel safe on our streets”.
Giving lockdown lawbreaker Dominic Cummings a 40 per cent pay rise isn’t charity, it’s sympathy for the devil.
Rachel Reeves said the system had "failed the British people and led our country into restrictive lockdown after lockdown”.