From Elsewhere: Douglas Murray on Britain’s increasingly inequitable policing policies.

 

It is now proven beyond reasonable doubt that Britons are being policed inequitably. Gone are the days when the police were forced to abide by their oath to police without fear or favour, now the question as to whether we are policed with consent or whether we are policed harshly depend on the colour of our skin, the religion that we follow and the political beliefs we espouse. We’ve seen police throw non-Muslim children and young women to the wolves of the Islamic Rape Gangs in order to keep the Islamic community sweet and also in order to avoid fatuous claims of ‘racism’ to be aimed at the police. We have seen police forces kneel in front of BLM/Marxist protestors in supplication and apology for problems that do not exist and which did not even occur in the United Kingdom. We have also experienced senior officers in places like Bristol make approving noises about far Left vandals.

Previously it is only us peasants that have seen and experienced the disgusting capriciousness of Britain’s increasingly distrusted police forces. However, this problem is now getting a wider airing in organs like Spiked and The Spectator. In fact Britain’s favourite gay conservative thinker Douglas Murray has waded in to the subject of Britain’s politically bent police forces.

In his latest Spectator column Mr Murray said on the subject of the inequity with which British police now manage protests:

In the era of Covid, you would have thought that protests would need an even greater reason than usual to justify going ahead. After all, the inconvenience factor is now accompanied, we are told, by a risk to the public health. Until the BLM protests in early June, we were told that even tiny gatherings of people would put lives in danger. For that reason we all spent months isolated. Then BLM started their protests and the country watched as well as waited. If the warnings had been right then BLM would have caused a spike in the virus. But so far as I know, no such spike occurred. Or if it did, it was too politically dangerous to discuss.

What did spike was public contempt for the police — who all too readily ‘took the knee’ on the orders of the crowds only then to be pursued by mobs shouting things like ‘Run piggy, run’. At these protests the police appeared to be imploring the crowd to believe that they were on their side. That was understandable, given the -circumstances, but antithetical to good policing and confusing, given the claims about the virus that had been impressed upon us for months.

Well said there Mr Murray.

Mr Murray then went on to comment on how the highly disruptive protests by the crypto-Communists of Extinction Rebellion had been policed in a noticeably benign manner. Which of course is a stark contrast to how protests against Islamic Rape Gangs, the worthless and unnecessary lockdown and Britain’s disgracefully open borders are policed.

Read the rest of Mr Murray’s excellent article via the link below, or better still pop out and buy a copy of the Spectator in order to support writers such as Douglas Murray and others.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/all-protests-are-not-equal-in-the-eyes-of-the-police