Darran said:
There seems to be a massive problem in the UK where everybody,that’s everybody including the police and general public seem to think they can do whatever the f*ck they want.
If you watched and listened to the news yesterday every channel on tv and radio was saying that there’d been meetings between the police and organisers of the vigil and the police had said that because of COVID regulations the vigil should not happen.
I find the fact that it then happened interesting.
Why did it happen when the police said it shouldn’t happen?
The organisers attempted to arrange the vigil with full Police support.
The police said it was unlawful under Covid regulations.
The organisers went to court this week and the court ruled Before yesterday morning that it was not unlawful as the Covid restrictions allow for such an event but left it up to the Met as to whether they allowed it or not.
The organisers then tried to sit down with the Met again. They again said no, the organisers then called it off as they could have had huge fines.
To the surprise of precisely no one it still went ahead as people turned up for it. All day. Including the future Queen (which is actually a huge political problem for the government as Patel can’t do her usual ‘everyone that turned up is a thug looking for trouble’.
Instead of other cities where the police allowed vigils with precisely no bother whatsoever, the Met, given a choice of female officers respectfully watching from the edges or male officers wading in, decided the way to best police the event was the latter - they employed a largely male presence who adopted an aggressive mindset, grabbed people who were simply sitting at the bandstand, trampled flowers that had been laid earlier, and generally acted like thugs.
Given the event also was not ‘authorised’ due to ‘Covid’ the event also then saw a bunch of thuggish anti lockdown morons who turned up to cause bother.
The whole situation was a disaster. The police in this country police by consent. Their latest incarnation into a bunch of stormtroopers under the guidance of Patel as stormtrooper in chief, will lead to nothing but trouble. If the Met cannot secure the support and instead have the utter mistrust and contempt of someone like me, a middle aged, middle class women without a single criminally minded tendency, they are absolutely buggered. It’s the latest in a line of shambolic decisions from the top, starting with the Home Secretary, made worse by bullies on the front line who seem to think they’re untouchable.
Some time ago, I wrote about the horror of the police taking selfies with the bodies of two murdered sisters in a London country park. Those police officers have still not been charged. The organisation seems rancid. I’m sure there are many deeply caring officers who really want to make a difference. They are being damaged by thuggish colleagues who revel in their ‘powers’.
Deeply disturbing. I expect a full investigation of what has happened and, if it is as it seems, the resignation of Cressida Dick.
I lit a candle for Sarah Everard. And for all those who have been murdered, raped, attacked, harassed for the crime of being outside the front door and female. And for all those who are reduced to a restricted life, for the fear of becoming a statistic’.
And yes, I know that men are attacked too. And women can be evil, murderous scum.
But just for now, the conversation is not about that. It’s about the 97% of women who have been harassed or attacked or worse in public spaces. Public spaces that the police are responsible for keeping safe for all of us. Quite obviously not all men are doing anything at all. But enough are that all women are at risk. If you know friends, family etc that act like dicks towards women, please ask them to stop. Call them out. Enough.