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
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.
Are not Gideon and the “protestors" not one and the same, there to incite violence on the part of the other? The police caught in the middle but tending to tyranny, natural for them, in response it is easier for them to put a stop to the potential of violence by arresting one guy rather than trying to stop a much larger crowd? Gideon also a hypocrite for his getting Tommy Robinson arrested previously when he was just as provocative (this word is relevant to the crowd and both Tommy and Gideon knew that they were being provocative)
And I don’t see much to get offended by with the original Met statement.
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.
This too has been going on for a long time and allowed to continue. N
Are not Gideon and the “protestors" not one and the same, there to incite violence on the part of the other? The police caught in the middle but tending to tyranny, natural for them, in response it is easier for them to put a stop to the potential of violence by arresting one guy rather than trying to stop a much larger crowd? Gideon also a hypocrite for his getting Tommy Robinson arrested previously when he was just as provocative (this word is relevant to the crowd and both Tommy and Gideon knew that they were being provocative)
And I don’t see much to get offended by with the original Met statement.
Seems Lee Anderson was absolutely correct, doesn't it?
This is the modern Nazi warm up act.
Whenever you think that the Police couldn’t be any worse they take up the challenge and come up with something as grotesque as this.
One wonders what it will be next. You would have thought this was the apex of their pusillanimity but you never know.
Reminded me of Not The Nine O'Clock News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6hdKsa6ls