| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:39 - Mar 13 with 532 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:28 - Mar 13 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Young women being led away by male members of the biggest gang in town....Nice look! |
It's worse than that, though, isn't it?
It's a young woman being taken from a place a young woman was taken from by a male police officer, by a male police officer.
I don't know what Cressida Dick, Head of the Metropolitan Police, was thinking. |  | |  |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:40 - Mar 13 with 530 views | bluelagos |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:36 - Mar 13 by MattinLondon |
She shouldn’t break the law then. |
She wouldn't have to if the police had facilitated her rights to protest. |  |
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| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:45 - Mar 13 with 515 views | WD19 |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:39 - Mar 13 by ArnoldMoorhen |
It's worse than that, though, isn't it?
It's a young woman being taken from a place a young woman was taken from by a male police officer, by a male police officer.
I don't know what Cressida Dick, Head of the Metropolitan Police, was thinking. |
She was probably thinking that it is her job to uphold the law, even if it is going to be unpopular on Twitter. |  | | |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:49 - Mar 13 with 503 views | MattinLondon |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:40 - Mar 13 by bluelagos |
She wouldn't have to if the police had facilitated her rights to protest. |
We’re living at (hopefully) the tail end of a pandemic so unfortunately protests can’t really carry on as normal. |  | | |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:50 - Mar 13 with 502 views | bluelagos |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:49 - Mar 13 by MattinLondon |
We’re living at (hopefully) the tail end of a pandemic so unfortunately protests can’t really carry on as normal. |
They did exactly that for the BLM protests, but apparently women's rights are not as important... | |
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| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:51 - Mar 13 with 498 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:36 - Mar 13 by MattinLondon |
She shouldn’t break the law then. |
Whatever! |  |
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| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:57 - Mar 13 with 486 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:45 - Mar 13 by WD19 |
She was probably thinking that it is her job to uphold the law, even if it is going to be unpopular on Twitter. |
I'm not an expert in crowd control, Covid regulations, human rights law, or even how to limit damage when someone from an organisation which requires the trust and consent of the public to function has done the worst thing imaginable to break that trust.
But, off the top of my head, I'd have said that encouraging dialogue with the organisers and channelling it into a walking protest, would have had enormous symbolic power (literally Reclaiming These Streets) would have been within Covid guidelines, and would have respectfully rebuilt trust with the public.
Policing by consent is really important, and is central to all of the "Modern Police Force" management training that senior officers will have been through. They have massively screwed this up. | | | |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:58 - Mar 13 with 479 views | MattinLondon |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:50 - Mar 13 by bluelagos |
They did exactly that for the BLM protests, but apparently women's rights are not as important... |
That’s a good point which I didn’t take into consideration. | | | |
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| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 20:02 - Mar 13 with 471 views | WD19 |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 19:57 - Mar 13 by ArnoldMoorhen |
I'm not an expert in crowd control, Covid regulations, human rights law, or even how to limit damage when someone from an organisation which requires the trust and consent of the public to function has done the worst thing imaginable to break that trust.
But, off the top of my head, I'd have said that encouraging dialogue with the organisers and channelling it into a walking protest, would have had enormous symbolic power (literally Reclaiming These Streets) would have been within Covid guidelines, and would have respectfully rebuilt trust with the public.
Policing by consent is really important, and is central to all of the "Modern Police Force" management training that senior officers will have been through. They have massively screwed this up. |
From what I can see, this was exactly the way it was heading until it became apparent that half of London planned on attending. At that point it is rock and hard place stuff. You just can’t sanction that in a pandemic, but you also know that ppl are going to turn up regardless. | | | |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 21:02 - Mar 13 with 434 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Met police challenge Derbyshire police on 20:02 - Mar 13 by WD19 |
From what I can see, this was exactly the way it was heading until it became apparent that half of London planned on attending. At that point it is rock and hard place stuff. You just can’t sanction that in a pandemic, but you also know that ppl are going to turn up regardless. |
So you turn it into a walking protest and don't have speakers. Which, if the Met had been willing to talk to the organisers, might have been possible.
It is their failure to engage with the organisers which has created the lose-lose situation. | | | |
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