Even in America, that’s the law. If you’ve been hanging outside some shop for hours and the shop owner calls the cops because he’s sick of it, you can be told by an officer to move along and be arrested if you don’t. It’s called loitering.
Incorrect, loitering is not a crime in England or Wales. The Vagrancy Acts of 1825 and 1898 which made loitering a crime were repealed by a different law on Sexual Assault in 2003.
This gentleman had a right to be in a public place for his own purposes. He is not accused of committing a crime and the fact that other people may not like his presence is not his problem. The policeman was wrong and had no authority to arrest him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering
How is it loitering when the whole point of protesting is to be seen and heard?
The guy was there to hear the protesters. Isn't that what the protesters wanted?
Did the police threaten everyone who stood around to watch with loitering, or just the "openly Jewish" guy? If he's the symbol of what they're protesting, isn't it his right to be there and hear and see for himself what they're saying?
Or is this some kind of secret protest where everyone in London is allowed to attend except the "openly Jewish" people? "Those people" are loiterers. Let's move them to a "Jewish" ghetto where they can be openly Jewish, for their own protection of course.
PJ