Our Daddy will create a better future
Daughters’ pride in protest hero
THE daughters of a ‘superhero’ who saved a suspected far-Right protester from being attacked have said his actions will help to create a brighter future.
Patrick Hutchinson was described as representing ‘the best of human behaviour’ by MPs after he carried an injured white man to safety during the Black Lives Matter protests at the weekend.
After he was heralded around the world, Mr Hutchinson’s children beamed with pride yesterday as they said: ‘Daddy did such a good job.’
The 6ft 1in personal trainer appeared alongside his youngest daughters Kendal, eight, and Sidena, ten, as they told how the ‘superhero’ always helps people in need.
Kendal said: ‘I’m just happy that Daddy went and saved the man because he could have died and Daddy just went out there. Daddy did such a good job.’
Mr Hutchinson, 49, travelled to London on Saturday with four friends with the aim of stopping young anti-racism protesters from being drawn into confrontations with farRight thugs.
He rescued the man on London’s South Bank as he was being set upon by an angry crowd for allegedly shouting racist abuse at them.
Sidena, who had been filmed celebrating wildly as her father discussed the incident on television, described how good it felt to see his brave act celebrated. She told BBC Breakfast: ‘My dad’s always been one of those people who helps when it’s needed.’
Asked if she shares her father’s hopes for greater equality, she said: ‘I really do because what is happening now ... impacts on me and my sister’s future.
‘It really makes an impact so we can try and make things better for our own futures.’
Mr Hutchinson, from Croydon, South London, had been due to babysit on Saturday but answered a call from a friend assembling a team to help ‘keep the peace’ on the capital’s streets.
The former IT analyst said that without his intervention the ‘narrative would have just switched to “Black Lives Matter demonstrators kill white man”’. Since the event, Mr Hutchinson has used the mantra: ‘It is not about black versus white, it is everybody against racism.’
He said he wants to teach his three daughters the importance of social equality.
He said: ‘You try to explain to them that we’re all equal, we all need to get along together. Unfortunately for us as black people, we’ve had the short end of the stick and equality hasn’t been there for all as it should be.
‘But this is not going to be the situation for them, it will be better for them as they get older and they have to believe, like I believe, that one day there will be true equality.’