More than 425 arrested as protesters defy ban on Palestine Action in London

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1. From the article:

   >Officers faced chants of “shame on you” when taking two elderly people using mobility scooters into police vans.

   Yes, that seems like something the plod would do. Their parents and families must be so proud…

   >The Met’s deputy assistant commissioner, Claire Smart, who led the operation, said: “In carrying out their duties today, our officers have been punched, kicked, spat on and had objects thrown at them by protesters. It is intolerable that those whose job it is to enforce the law and keep people safe – in this case arresting individuals committing offences under the Terrorism Act – should be subject to this level of abuse.”

   And yet:

   > Earlier, Defend Our Juries responded to a similar claim by the police, saying officers “violently [assaulted] peaceful protesters including the elderly, in order to try and arrest over 1,000 people for holding cardboard signs” and shared a video of officers shoving people to the ground.

   I’ve seen the Met attack protesters with far more zeal than attacking violent criminals. I don’t believe them any more when they say they were attacked. It’s so often lies where it turns out they instigated violence and arrested their victims for it.

2. Weren’t there double the number of people signed up this time? And less arrests: over 500 last time. So it seems their strategy of “they can’t arrest all of us” is working. 

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