Marieha Hussain had marched for three hours with her family, and the children with them were getting tired.
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00:00Maria Hossein had marched for three hours with her family, and the children with them
00:04were getting tired.
00:05''We opened some snacks to keep them going,'' she said.
00:09They were part of a 300,000-strong group at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in central
00:15London on 11 November 2023.
00:18Then, somebody from my side of the street where I was standing called out and asked,
00:23''Can I take a picture of your placard?''
00:26This wasn't the first time she'd been asked for a picture.
00:29Her family's placards, she said, had drawn a lot of attention.
00:34On one side of the placard was a cartoon of Suella Braverman, then the Home Secretary,
00:39dressed like Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians.
00:43Ms Hossein held up the sign and posed.
00:46The voice called out, ''No, not that one, can you turn it around please?''
00:51And I did.
00:53And that was it, her account was told to Westminster Magistrates' Court this week during her two-day
00:58trial on a charge of a racially aggravated public order offence.
01:02She was accused of this offence, of which she was found not guilty on Friday, because
01:07of what was on the other side of that placard.
01:11It was a drawing of a palm tree with coconuts falling off it, pasted over two of those coconuts
01:16were the faces of Ms Braverman and of the then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
01:21At the heart of this case was the word, ''coconut'' and whether it could be considered racially
01:26abusive.