By LifeSiteNews (Politics) | Created at 2026-09-08 19:51:25 | Updated at 2026-09-08 20:57:05
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Tue Sep 8, 2026 - 3:51 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A 17-year-old Christian activist and commentator was arrested Saturday after retrieving a banner icon of Christ that was snatched from him and a fan of his.
Gregory Moffitt, a conservative content creator known as “Young Bob,” explained that he was standing with a fan who asked to have a picture taken with him at the UK March for Life. The pair held up Moffitt’s banner icon of Jesus Christ as they posed for a photo.
Video footage posted to X shows Moffitt’s fan taking ahold of and lowering the sign of a nearby pro-abortion counterprotester, who was waving the sign up and down very close to him. Another counterprotester then snatched away the icon of Christ, and Moffitt proceeded to go after the thief, knocking down a nearby pro-abortion woman as he sought to retrieve the banner.
Video shows police officers shortly after pried Moffitt away from the scene and escorted him away from the crowd. As the young activist later explained in an interview, he was arrested on the charge of causing an affray, which is contained in section three of the Public Order Act.
“I’m trying to defend the icon of Christ, the Second Eternal Person of the Trinity, the Son,” Moffitt explained after his arrest. “May the Holy Spirit be with you all,” he said after he was escorted into a police vehicle.
Afterward, Moffitt shared that he was held for “hours” at Charing Cross station and was later released after the police decided not to press charges.
“Young Bob” told Dan Wootton, host of the show “Outspoken,” that he believes the police knew who he was beforehand and were waiting for an excuse to arrest him.
“I could hear the whisper of a police officer talking on the radio saying, ‘Whatever you do, get this man arrested,’” Moffitt told Wootton.
This was Moffitt’s second arrest at the March for Life UK.
“In fact, some of the arresting officers were going on about my online profile and how it’d made them look,” he added.
Moffitt shared that the last time he was arrested at the UK March for Life, the police addressed him as “Young Bob,” indicating that they were familiar with his online presence.
“So these people obviously know me from my online platform and tried to get me arrested because they know I’m a right-winger,” he told Wootton. In fact, Moffitt has a “case file” on the leftist “Hate not Hope” site, indicating he is on the radar of at least some liberals.
“I’ve never seen such a crazy, angry and violent protest than the pro-abortionists,” Moffitt said. “They disturbed a Catholic Mass. They were shouting at Christian clergymen. And by and large, aside from a few controversial figures such as myself, the March for Life is incredibly peaceful, it’s completely devoid of any political discourse. It’s just Christian people protesting for the sanctity of life.”
He called the “desecration” of the icon of Christ a “clear act of Christophobia.”
The outlet The Yarn said the video footage alone of the incident is “enough to raise serious questions about (the) priorities” of the UK justice system. Britain keeps creating the conditions for public distrust and then acting surprised when people stop trusting the institutions enforcing the rules.”
“Young Bob” rose to prominence through interviews on Speaker’s Corner and while campaigning for Disciples for Christ, a UK-based activist group.
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