By Amie Gordon For Mailonline
Published: 09:48 GMT, 21 January 2019 | Updated: 12:33 GMT, 21 January 2019
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Vegans clashed with shop workers as they staged a furious protest targeting leather and clothing stores.
Members of the group Direct Action Everywhere stormed around Brighton at the weekend in their latest demonstration, holding aloft banners and chanting into megaphones.
But police officers had to be called to one shop after the protesters refused to leave when asked by the owners.
Members of the group Direct Action Everywhere stormed around Brighton at the weekend in their latest demonstration, holding aloft banners and chanting into megaphones.
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is an animal rights protest group that was originally set up in San Francisco in 2013.
Its mission is to achieve 'total animal liberation' and the creation of a law requiring 'species equality'.
Associated groups then spread throughout the US, protesting against conditions at farms used by Whole Foods and organising sit-ins at Chipotle restaurants against animal violence.
By December 2014 the organisation had spread across the globe, with groups established in 90 cities in 20 countries, and in the present day it has organised protests in 217 cities in 43 countries.
In the UK it has branches in Liverpool, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry, London, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Cambridge, north east England, Belfast and Scotland.
DxE pledge to take non-violent direct action but its disruptive demonstrations have been branded bullying.
Members in the US have previously been charged with burglary and theft after raiding farms and stealing livestock.
The group filmed their demonstration across Brighton on Saturday, with footage showing them outside shops including Artemis, a 'bohemian' store which sells sheepskin goods.
They stormed the city chanting slogans including
