The Metropolitan Police have inadvertently added to the lexicon of ‘cross the road’ jokes with this:
“I am worried about the reaction to your presence.”
In other words, the police threatened to arrest this Jewish man for attempting to cross the road (i.e. exercising his right of freedom of movement) during a pro-Palestinian march because he was “openly Jewish” and his presence might provoke a breach of the peace. The response of the Metropolitan Police to the inevitable outcry following the release of this video was to double down and accuse bystanders of deliberately provoking a breach of the peace:
There was a further outcry and so the Met deleted this response and issued another:
This would all be very amusing of course if it were not so extremely worrying and sinister. The Metropolitan Police have allowed these weekly marches to go ahead for months and now they are threatening to arrest counter demonstrators and bystanders on the basis that their mere presence is provocative and could result in a criminal breach of the peace by the marchers.
Suella Braverman MP, our former Home Secretary, warned about the politicisation of the Met in allowing the protests to continue unhindered and for this she was sacked by unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak:
Finally, in an ironic twist, it turns out that the Jewish guy in question had a few months back reported Tommy Robinson’s presence to the police during an anti-Semitism march, resulting in him being assaulted and arrested by the Met simply for doing his job:
As somebody pointed out, rather aptly, in response:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
He wasn't "simply crossing the road", he is an activist who was obviously looking to provoke exactly this situation.
As anyone who has been to these rallies knows there are huge numbers of jews marching each time because they don't want to be associated with the atrocities being carried out in their name.
I actually think I saw this guy once walking against the flow of the march, in the middle of the road, with some kind of pro-israeli placard. At the time I felt respect for him but it's pretty clear now he'll have had someone going along filming, and was trawling for some kind of reaction.
The fact his first bite was from a police officer, not a protester, should tell you all you need about how jews are treated on these marches.
Oh, please. These Zionists are shooting babies, starving millions, bombing hospitals and you are painting them as victims? What a sick mentality. There is no equivalency here.