Angry commuters threw coins and coffee at Extinction Rebellion activists who scaled a Tube train to protest about climate change, a court heard.
James Mee, 37, was pulled onto the platform at Canning Tube station and kicked by enraged passengers during the morning rush-hour on October 17, 2019.
Mee, an accounts administrator, and former Buddhist teacher Mark Ovland, 38, used a telescopic ladder to climb onto the train, jurors heard.
They unfurled a banner saying 'business as usual=death' while a public announcement told the crowd, which had gathered below the activists, to evacuate, Inner London Crown Court heard.
Edmund Blackman, prosecuting, said the pair were only on top of the train for 20 minutes but 48,000 people had their morning commutes affected.
XR activists Mark Ovland (left) and James Mee (right) used a telescopic ladder to climb onto a London Tube train
'The attitude of the crowd and some of the public who were inconvenienced were angry and hostile and things on the platform got very ugly.
'People were reaching up, trying to pull the people and the banner off the train, throwing things, coffee, coins, verbally jeering.'
TfL staff asked Mee and Ovland to come down but they refused.
'A lot of people had their camera phones out, recording what was going on,' said Mr Blackman.
'One of the people who was recording seems to have been there by arrangement, involved in Extinction
