On Saturday, unrest broke out between Met police officers and mourners at a vigil held in Clapham Common to honor the memory of Sarah Everard.

Everard, 33, disappeared on March 3 during what should have been a 50-minute walk from a friend's house in Clapham, South London, to her home in Brixton.

Per BBC News, 48-year-old Wayne Couzens - a serving Met Police officer - was charged with the kidnap and murder of Everard on Friday, following Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave confirming that the human remains discovered in a woodland in Kent were those of Everard.

One of the most shared images from Saturday night's unrest showed 28-year-old student Patsy Stevenson being pinned to the ground by police officers as they arrested her following their attempt to disperse the evening crowd, citing current Covid restrictions.

Watch footage of Stevenson's arrest below:

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Now, during an appearance on Good Morning Britain, Stevenson has spoken out about her side of events from Saturday night.

Stevenson told hosts Ben Shepherd and Susanna Reid that she had attended the vigil "to lay a candle down", but was soon left "terrified" after police officers grabbed her.

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She said: "I am quite small and it was two very large male officers who sort of pulled me back very quickly and then I hit the ground.

"From start to finish it was just a sort of whirlwind, it happened very quickly. I was only there to lay a candle down, I did not expect that to happen."

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Stevenson - who stands at just 5ft 2" - added: "I was terrified. I have never been so scared honestly."

"I think what was scary as well was as soon as I was pinned to the ground, I looked up and there were cameras everywhere."

The physics student also revealed that she had been fined £200 for breaches of coronavirus regulations, but told LBC Radio over the weekend that she is considering challenging the fine.

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"We were there to remember Sarah, we all felt deeply saddened and still do." Stevenson added. "Women don’t feel safe walking down a street. That’s the bare minimum we should feel the freedom to do, and it’s appalling that it’s gone on for this long."

In response to the violent clash, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service Dame Cressida Dick is now facing calls to resign.

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However, in a statement to press on Sunday, Dick said: "I feel for my officers, I feel for them every day.

She added:

"I completely recognise that they are, particularly in this last year, often finding themselves in very very difficult situations, they are policing during a pandemic. Nobody wants a third wave to happen.

"It’s only a few weeks since the NHS was on its knees. They have a really difficult job, they have to make fine judgments, they often don’t have infinite information or all the time in the world.

"They have to make these really difficult calls and I don’t think anybody should be sitting back in an armchair and saying ‘well that was done badly’ or ‘I would have done it differently’ without actually understanding what was going through their minds.

"I guarantee that every single officer who was policing last night [Saturday], like me, would rather we were not in the time of coronavirus. There could be a large, peaceful set of vigils all over the country.

"Most of them would have been at those vigils and I guarantee also that my officers up and down London and beyond, if they weren’t working, will have been thinking of Sarah at 9:30pm last night, they will have been lighting their candles or pausing, and it’s something we care about very, very deeply."

Meanwhile, per ITV News, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply concerned about the footage from Clapham Common on Saturday night".

If you have any information which could assist police in their investigation of Sarah's disappearance, contact the Incident Room on 0208 785 8244 or visit the Major Incident Portal.

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Woman arrested at Sarah Everard vigil speaks out: 'Women don’t feel safe walking down a street'