{"id":930967,"date":"2026-05-01T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:41:14","slug":"zack-polanski-apologises-for-sharing-tweet-criticising-police-at-golders-green-stabbings-zack-polanski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930967\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Polanski apologises for sharing tweet criticising police at Golders Green stabbings | Zack Polanski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Zack Polanski has apologised for sharing a social media post critical of police after the Golders Green stabbings, after the head of the Metropolitan police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/may\/01\/met-chief-criticises-zack-polanski-golders-green-attack\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said the Green leader<\/a> risked undermining public confidence in his officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Polanski, who leads the Greens in England and Wales, said he was sorry for having shared someone else\u2019s post \u201cin haste\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police were filmed detaining the suspect after two Jewish people were stabbed in the north-west London suburb on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Polanski retweeted, without comment, a post on X alleging that officers were \u201crepeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head\u201d when he was already incapacitated by a stun gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a statement on Friday afternoon, he said: \u201cEveryone in leadership has a responsibility for lowering the temperature at a time of such tension, and I apologise for sharing a tweet in haste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cPolice responses to emergency situations such as these do need later reflection in the right forums, but I accept that social media is not the appropriate channel for doing so. I have invited [Metropolitan police commissioner] Mark Rowley to meet with me to discuss the police response and the wider issues raised in his letter.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/zack-polanskis-criticism-of-golders-green-attack-arrest-will-have-chilling-effect-says-met-chief\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to Polanski<\/a>, Rowley had described the claim as \u201cinaccurate and misinformed commentary\u201d. He praised the officers as \u201cnothing short of extraordinary\u201d, adding: \u201cWithout their efforts to stop him, I dread to think what the outcome could have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zack Polanski has apologised for sharing a social media post critical of police after the Golders Green stabbings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-930967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116500082671715250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930967","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=930967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}