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Watch: Met Police boss dodges questions on ‘two tier policing’
UK Spectator ^ | Aug 5 | Steerpike

Posted on 08/05/2024 8:03:52 AM PDT by RandFan

As Britain braces itself for further outbreaks of violence, questions are being asked about the UK’s police response and how effective it has been. While a number of officers have been injured over the past week as they work to contain rioters, accusations have been levelled at officers for ‘two tier policing’ – amidst fears that some protests are dealt with more harshly than others.

So when Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, was spotted leaving the Cabinet Office by reporters today, it seemed only natural that he be quizzed on the matter. But when one journalist questioned Rowley about whether the UK would ‘end two tier policing’, the Police Commissioner was rather reluctant to answer. In fact, he instead grabbed the top of the reporter’s microphone and, er, threw it to the ground. Charming…

It’s hardly, um, the best way to address concerns about the country’s forces. You can only run from scrutiny for so long…

Watch the clip here:

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: twotierpolicing
Oh Wow the police chief did not like that question !!
1 posted on 08/05/2024 8:03:52 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Palestinians and their LBGTQRSTUVWXYZ... Supporters get one type of ‘policing’. Everybody else gets the other type, the type where they actually crackdown on you.


2 posted on 08/05/2024 8:14:12 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: RandFan

They dodged questions about Rotherham too


3 posted on 08/05/2024 8:15:49 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: RandFan
"But when one journalist questioned Rowley about whether the UK would ‘end two tier policing’, the Police Commissioner was rather reluctant to answer. In fact, he instead grabbed the top of the reporter’s microphone and, er, threw it to the ground."

With that action, I think the "British government" just gave the British people the answer.

4 posted on 08/05/2024 8:19:15 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: RandFan

so that would be a no


5 posted on 08/05/2024 8:24:06 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Tench_Coxe

6 posted on 08/05/2024 8:26:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: joshua c

The people will warm themselves by the bonfire.


7 posted on 08/05/2024 8:28:02 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: RandFan

When it comes time for the police to choose what side they’re on just remember they’ve already picked their side.


8 posted on 08/05/2024 8:36:28 AM PDT by radmanptn
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To: RandFan

If I have to let the poster put cookies on my computer before I can read an article they put on the internet I just tel them to FO.


9 posted on 08/05/2024 8:56:22 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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When it comes time for the police to choose what side they’re on just remember they’ve already picked their side.

I wonder if they get to drive their police vehicles home like they do in the U.S. It would be a shame if someone, or several someones, decided to keep track of things like this.

10 posted on 08/05/2024 8:56:47 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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MarQ


11 posted on 08/05/2024 9:04:42 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: radmanptn

We need to remember that here in the US too. Look at how quickly MOST police forces went fascist in the COVID era.


12 posted on 08/05/2024 9:12:53 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: RandFan

What the UK really needs right now are the Knights Templar.


13 posted on 08/05/2024 9:44:48 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: packrat35

They are there to “serve and Protect” , their jobs and pensions!


14 posted on 08/05/2024 3:20:40 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: ABN 505

This is true.


15 posted on 08/06/2024 12:08:40 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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