A Black Lives Matter protester who saved an injured white man during violent clashes in London has said he “stopped somebody from being killed”.

A photo of Patrick Hutchinson carrying the man over his back at the weekend was widely shared on social media, with many calling him a hero.

It followed violent clashes between police and far-right protesters claiming to be defending statues in central London.

Hutchinson and his friends spotted an altercation involving the lone white man and young black demonstrators on the steps near Royal Festival Hall in London on Saturday.

He said the man was on the floor and that he and his four friends moved in to stop him from being trampled.

He told the BBC: “I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out with the guys around me, protecting me and shielding me and protecting this guy from getting any further punishment.

"I wasn't thinking, I was just thinking of a human being on the floor. It wasn't going to end well had we not intervened.

"We did what we had to do. We stopped somebody from being killed."

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