This seems like a very good use of limited police time and resources
peakedtooearly on
Police doing unlawful things? London must be free from thefts and stabbings these days.
L96 on
Hope every arrest is held personally against every officer once the court of appeal rules the unlawful arrests were unlawful.
TurbulentBullfrog829 on
“a blind disabled man whose filmed arrests are previous demonstrations have caused outrage, also took part in the action”
AHH, Grauniad, don’t ever change
Loreki on
Hooray. More arrested based on an unlawful ban. The cases will go nowhere, because the banning order was invalid at the time of the offence.
It is at best an intimidation tactic and a pretty stupid one at that. These people want to be arrested to attract attention to the cause. The police and government will more effectively achieve their objective (sweeping issues about Palestine under the rug) if they leave these people alone. Ordinary street protests rarely get any sustained coverage or traction.
Astriania on
It’s insane that the Met, of all forces, are wasting time doing this (especially when the proscription has been declared unlawful) rather than doing community policing that would increase, not decrease, public support and engagement.
There’s like 100 coppers in those pictures, if they deployed 10 each in 10 well known phone-nicking hotspots they could have saved probably 100+ people having a phone nicked today instead. Or maybe even arrested some of the balaclava-on-ebike knobheads.
Or deploy those police to do something about one of the many crimes that actually negatively impacted someone in London.
But no, some idiot in a command position decides that creating a “them and us” hostile relationship between harmless leftist protesters and the police is a better use of time and money.
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This seems like a very good use of limited police time and resources
Police doing unlawful things? London must be free from thefts and stabbings these days.
Hope every arrest is held personally against every officer once the court of appeal rules the unlawful arrests were unlawful.
“a blind disabled man whose filmed arrests are previous demonstrations have caused outrage, also took part in the action”
AHH, Grauniad, don’t ever change
Hooray. More arrested based on an unlawful ban. The cases will go nowhere, because the banning order was invalid at the time of the offence.
It is at best an intimidation tactic and a pretty stupid one at that. These people want to be arrested to attract attention to the cause. The police and government will more effectively achieve their objective (sweeping issues about Palestine under the rug) if they leave these people alone. Ordinary street protests rarely get any sustained coverage or traction.
It’s insane that the Met, of all forces, are wasting time doing this (especially when the proscription has been declared unlawful) rather than doing community policing that would increase, not decrease, public support and engagement.
There’s like 100 coppers in those pictures, if they deployed 10 each in 10 well known phone-nicking hotspots they could have saved probably 100+ people having a phone nicked today instead. Or maybe even arrested some of the balaclava-on-ebike knobheads.
Or deploy those police to do something about one of the many crimes that actually negatively impacted someone in London.
But no, some idiot in a command position decides that creating a “them and us” hostile relationship between harmless leftist protesters and the police is a better use of time and money.