Review whitewashes Metropolitan police behaviour at Sarah Everard vigil
Is anybody surprised that Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has cleared the Metropolitan Police of any inappropriate behaviour at the Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard?
The review said the force “was justified in adopting the view that the risks of transmitting COVID-19 at the vigil were too great to ignore”.
So that made it reasonable to kettle these people – crowd them into an ever-smaller space, making those risks much greater, did it?
That made it reasonable to arrest these people, did it? Were they crammed like sardines in police vans? Were they crammed like sardines into cells?
Forcing people into close contact with each other seems an extremely odd way to combat a disease that is spread by close contact – especially people who had been very recently injured.
The review said “officers remained calm and professional when subjected to abuse” and “did not act inappropriately or in a heavy handed manner”.
So this wasn’t heavy-handed?
How about this?
Clashes broke out between police and crowds gathering on Clapham Common.
The Metropolitan Police is facing criticism for its handling of the vigil in memory of Sarah Everard.
More here: https://t.co/NxdUBvY9Ue pic.twitter.com/tgz1Xc8IUI
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 14, 2021
Or this?
#BREAKING: Several people arrested at Sarah Everard vigil in Clapham Common, south London; police say vigil is violating coronavirus-related restrictions pic.twitter.com/5lTmiMWmDV
— I.E.N. (@BreakingIEN) March 13, 2021
Hmm.
Like many others, I notice that there was no problem with the Duchess of Cambridge attending the event that Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick branded illegal.
Why wasn’t Kate Middleton attacked with a baton and bundled into a White Maria?
Ah, but she attended during daylight. The police didn’t move in and start hurting people until after dark. Now, why was that, do you think?
The report by Sky News makes it clear that the atmosphere did not turn hostile until the police started kettling people. Oh, the cops were telling people to leave, were they? How could they do that when the uniforms were cutting off their ability to go?
The bandstand was soon almost surrounded by officers and the atmosphere started to become more hostile. It was at this point that a number of women appeared to be shoved and people starting shouting at the police.
It seems clear to me that HM Inspectorate of Constabulary came to the conclusion it usually reaches – that the police can do no wrong.
How many attendees at the event were consulted during this review?
None, I’m betting.
No wonder the result was one-sided.
Let’s have a proper, public inquiry – then we’ll hear some uncomfortable facts (but of course, that will never happen).
Source: Met Police ‘acted appropriately’ at Sarah Everard vigil, review finds | UK News | Sky News
Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.
Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:
Here are four ways to be sure you’re among the first to know what’s going on.
1) Register with us by clicking on ‘Subscribe’ (in the left margin). You can then receive notifications of every new article that is posted here.
2) Follow VP on Twitter @VoxPolitical
3) Like the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VoxPolitical/
Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
4) You could even make Vox Political your homepage at http://voxpoliticalonline.com
And do share with your family and friends – so they don’t miss out!
If you have appreciated this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved!
Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
fighting for the facts.
The Livingstone Presumption is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
The report carried out by the police suggests that beating people over the head with batons and kicking them when they are down, is for the benefit of their health!
No surprise at all. To think that it would be any different would be naive. They will do and have done what they please under tory governments. It is what the tories want them to do and thus rewards them for such.
Nothing but gaslighting, lie and deceive in this report. This attitude the police can do no wrong is why they feel entitled to kill, rape and abuse their powers then they wonder why they are disliked and distrusted…
I’m very pleased to learn the police boy thugs acted ‘calm and professional’ as they physically assaulted women and threatened women with male violence!
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services is not an independent organisation but one created to protect the male dominated police and ensure they are never held accountable for their male violence against women!
Amazing how quickly this lying report was published which in itself shows it was not rigorous but more fascist propaganda!
Why haven’t police arrested and handcuffed the Duchess of Cambridge given she blatantly violated the law and attended an illegal vigil??? Why did the police boy thugs wait until it was dark so their male violence against women would be harder to detect?
I so look forward to more boy police thugs inflicting male violence on women with male impunity because the boy police thugs know their male superiors are supporting them and justifying their criminal actions!
Male police thugs acting with impunity comes from the top – little fascist dictator dick johnson is a criminal and his nefarious crimes are still not being prosecuted so I am not surprised the fascist police boy thugs are imitating their male boss dick johnson. Little england is indeed a one party fascist state replete with boy police thugs maintaining oppression over women who dare to protest against male violence against women!
As you can see from the above, Hecuba habitually fills her comments with a lot of material that one would reasonably describe as misandrist – that is, it shows hatred of men because they are men.
In this case, however, it seems to me that in this instance she makes very good points about male violence, in a way that may be forceful but is also justifiable.
Police policing vigil for victim of the police policing the event are accused of being violent. Their own organisation for investigating them finds they have done nothing wrong. I’m afraid the opposite is tru, they have done nothing right and the fact they can’t see this themselves speaks volumes.
Compare and contrast. A peaceful vigil of women remembering a murder victim OR several areas where rowdy and violent football fans turns up in hundreds/thousands contrary to the law, not asking for permission, flouting social distancing laws and letting of fireworks from within large crowds in public city centre areas. And so which one was violently police and which one was ‘monitored’ from a safe distance whilst crowds were allowed to gather. Of course, a group of peaceful women were considered a threat the violent men were allowed to get on with it.