Rights and wrongs of protest in a pandemic | Letters

Readers respond to the police crackdown during the vigil on Clapham Common which followed the death of Sarah Everard

With regard to your coverage of the vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham Common on Saturday, it seems that the morality of the gathering is being used as a justification for the breaking of lockdown rules, and for the consequent potential for coronavirus to spread (Cressida Dick refuses to quit over vigil policing and dismisses armchair critics', 15 March).

There can be no argument against the validity of the reasons for the protest, but in itself that's not a justification for the form it took. A picture of a woman being arrested has been widely circulated and discussed, whereas the significance of almost every other picture of the protest, which show people crowded together, against the rules, seems to be largely ignored.