The coach has been driven away empty by police - once it had its slashed tyres changed 😂
The Met are now attempting to kettle the protesters. Multiple arrests have already been made.
The Met Police are incompetent, racist, misogynist, corrupt bigots and riddled with criminals. Discuss.
On Sunday it will be three years since Sarah Everard was murdered.
Nothing has changed.
Also today in the Telegraph: "Women now ‘expect to be abused online’
The normalisation of unwanted digital violence and the lack of safe spaces have led to a decrease in the number of reported attacks"
Telegraph: "Make Palestine march organisers pay towards policing costs, official review says"
"An official review by Lord Walney, the Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, has said there is a case for charging because of the “great amount of police resource” being absorbed by the protests."
Lord Walney, formerly known as LABOUR MP John Woodcock
Apparently the Met aren't playing nice today. The Palestine demonstrators are now sitting down on Bridge St. The legal observers are handing out information cards to people to inform them of their rights. The police liaison officers are informing the crowd that after 3 o'clock the protest will be illegal.
General note: never go to a protest without a legal information card. #MetPolice#UKPolitics#CeasefireNow
Southern Investigations are in the news again. Daniel Morgan, a director, was murdered in the Golden Lion car park in 1987 and replaced by a man who had been investigating the case. So began the long running story of #metpolice#corruption and incompetence.
For a better idea of just how many Met Police were at Waterloo this evening 👇
Of course, Saturday nights in central London are notoriously quiet 🙄🤬 #CeasefireNow#MetPolice#UKPolitics#ACAB
"Homeless people's tents in central London have been destroyed during a Met Police operation.
"Refuse workers threw the tents into the back of their lorry on Huntley Street, Camden, at about 15:00 GMT on Friday.
"Elodie Berland, who volunteers with outreach organisation Streets Kitchen, recorded the scene after being called there by some of the homeless men.
"The Met said it 'worked with University College London Hospital and other partners in response to concerns'.
"It is understood that the NHS hospital trust, which has a building entrance on the road, requested the dispersal of rough sleepers but not the destruction of tents.
"Refuse company #Veolia was contacted for comment."
🧵1/4 The #FreePalestine#London demo drew between 750k & 1M people. The best advertising came from Home Secretary #SuellaBraverman who had branded the march a #hatemarch. She had also bullied the #MetPolice into banning the protest, but the Commissioner resisted. There was gratitude in the crowd for the #police. In a Pimlico backstreet I came across the Met folding a major #FarRight operation which would have been a very serious security threat to the families walking unawares 50 meters away
REMINDER: Anyone attending the London march on Saturday, take care when you're taking photographs. Ask permission before posting pictures of people's faces and use pixellating apps. The Metropolitan Police regularly use AFR (Automated Facial Recognition). #UKPolitics#MarchForPalestine#MetPolice
I hate it when I have to agree with Tories.
Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson, on LBC last night:
"The government needs to proceed extremely carefully in this matter. Tens of millions of people died ... so that British people have the right and freedom to express their beliefs. You cannot just decide that this is not the case and put [him] under this kind of pressure. The gvt needs to be very careful to make sure they do not look as if they are playing politics." #UKPolitics#MetPolice
Met police officer under investigation over claims he shared footage of alleged rape
Exclusive: NHS worker Natalie Shotter, 37, was later found dead in west London park after night out with friends
A police officer has been arrested and is under investigation over claims that he shared CCTV footage of the alleged rape of a woman who later died, the Guardian has learned.