'Absurd’ Parliament Report Faces Backlash over Claims of No ‘Two-Tier’ Policing in Southport Riots

Breitbart ^ | 15 Apr 2025 | Kurt Zindulka

[MinorityRepublican]

A Parliamentary report claiming that there was no evidence of “two-tier policing” in response to last year’s protests and riots over the Southport child murders has been blasted as “absurd” by commentators.

On Monday, the Home Affairs Committee in the House of Commons published a report which asserted that the police response to the unrest following the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance party by a Rwandan-heritage teenager was proportionate and did not demonstrate police bias.

The anger over the mass stabbing resulted in 246 protests and counter-protests across the UK, the report found, 88 of which were found to be “significant”. To date, there have been 1,804 arrests and 1,072 charges over the riots, including some for merely posting on social media.

Due to the extraordinary number of arrests, the government also embarked on a scheme to release criminals from prison to make room in Britain’s overcrowded jails to house those convicted over the riots.

The report, finding no evidence of bias, said per Sky News: “Those participating in disorder were not policed more strongly because of their supposed political views but because they were throwing missiles, assaulting police officers and committing arson.

“It was disgraceful to see unsubstantiated commentary about ‘two-tier policing’ undermining the efforts of police officers who served bravely in the face of violence.”

The chairwoman of the committee, Conservative MP Dame Karen Bradley, said: “There is a difference in how police must deal with violence and how they deal with peaceful protests.

“This needs to recognised by commentators who all too readily spread claims of ‘two-tier policing’. Organised disorder is rightly met with a robust response; any implied equivalence with planned non-violent protests is simply wrong.”

[Lurker]

They lie right to our faces.

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[Texas Fossil]

Teen who killed three girls at Taylor Swift-themed dance party screams ‘I feel pain’ in courtroom outburst before sentencing (Jan 23, 2025)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/world-news/uk-teen-who-killed-three-girls-at-taylor-swift-themed-dance-party-screams-i-feel-pain-in-courtroom-outburst-before-sentencing/
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FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4311245/posts
Perp stabbed 3 young girls who died(6, 7, 9), stabbed 8 other children(7-13) & 2 adults.
Had an al Qaeda training manual.
Interrupted his sentencing, screams: “I feel pain”.

[Texas Fossil]

Correction on prior post, FR URL was wrong on NY Post article:

Teen who killed three girls at Taylor Swift-themed dance party screams ‘I feel pain’ in courtroom outburst before sentencing (Jan 23, 2025)

https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/world-news/uk-teen-who-killed-three-girls-at-taylor-swift-themed-dance-party-screams-i-feel-pain-in-courtroom-outburst-before-sentencing/
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(Correction) FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4291730/posts

[Winniesboy]

It's worth reading a fuller account of the Select Committee's findings than this very one-eyed commentary. In particular its recommendations about a revision of the Contempt of Court law. The inability of the police, because of contempt of court rules, to release anything about the arrested man until he had been formally charged and appeared in court, left an information vacuum which malign social media influencers were only too eager to fill.

The fact that this silence would have been the same for any other crime and any other criminal goes for nothing in such a highly charged atmosphere. The Committee is surely right that the unintended consequences of the long-standing rules mean they just don't work any more in a digital age. Though hard to see how to change them in a way which still protects the right to a fair trial.