{"id":428747,"date":"2025-09-16T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428747\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:24:12","slug":"london-felt-safe-until-two-men-with-knives-showed-up-on-my-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428747\/","title":{"rendered":"London felt safe \u2013 until two men with knives showed up on my doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So if this isn\u2019t a police priority, what is? Less than a month after my housemate was mugged, almost 900 people were arrested at protests in support of Palestine Action, and a further 532 were arrested on August 10. Amongst the latter group, half of those detained were over the age of 60, including 15 over 80s and one man who was both blind and uses a wheelchair. Most were arrested for holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/palestine-action-high-court-westminster-surrey-west-sussex-b1247962.html\" title=\"First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">placards that read \u2018I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action\u2019<\/a>, with one woman filming her arrest at September\u2019s protest over an incomplete sign that didn\u2019t even have the proscribed group\u2019s name written on it. These protests were a large-scale policing exercise; videos from the protests often show multiple officers removing individual protestors and the number of arrests eclipse even the 1990 Poll Tax riots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So if this isn\u2019t a police priority, what is? Less than a month after my housemate was mugged,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,146186,257,529,5549,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-428747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-knives","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-safety","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115213727583485208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}