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Two Tier Policing: A Thread 🇬🇧🧵 Two Tier policing is the primary criticism of the police by the British right, who argue that British law enforcement treat some people harsher than others. Is there evidence for this? Let's take a look.

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It's important to note that Britain's police are not a monolith. The three legal systems of the UK (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, NI) organise police differently and there are different leaderships in different areas. Because of this, this thread will focus on police in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 alone.

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The allegations of two-tier policing in 2024 can first be seen with the Harehills riots. Harehills is an area largely populated by Romani and south Asians, and after a Romani family had their children removed, riots broke out. The police were attacked by locals and retreated.

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The children were later returned to the family and the Family Court judge commented while doing so that it was important to take "the temperature down in this case", suggesting community tensions were a contributing factor in their decision.

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In Harehills we saw the police retreat, in Manchester we have seen another weak response from the courts. A man assaulted multiple police officers at Manchester Airport and broke the nose of a female officer. The officer who detained him has been suspended.

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Finally, we can look at the policing in Birmingham, where a mob attacked a pub under the impression that "far-right" protesters were gathering there. A man was violently attacked and some reports say his liver was lacerated.

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The victim is now being blamed for inciting the attack and despite the violence they faced, the owner of the pub is barring the victim and talking about how sensible and great the marchers were.

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These are 2024's incidents but we have some others that can be discussed too. In the 2020 BLM protests, 27 police were injured and the police responded by getting on their knee in solidarity with the protesters. Keir Starmer did the same.

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During these protests, a group called FF Force led a militaristic demonstration. Wearing uniforms comprising fatigues and stab proof vests with their logo on it - a violation of the Public Order Act 1936. Their paramilitary aesthetic drew condemnation from the public...

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...but not from Greens co-leader Jonathan Bartley, who described them as loving and just. The leader of FF Force is an anti-vaxxer and anti-Semite who claimed that Jews control the financial system. This is loving and just, according to the Greens.

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At a school in Batley, a teacher showed a caricature of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a religion class. In response, masked Islamist protesters launched a campaign to intimidate, abuse, and threaten him. The teacher received no protection and was forced into hiding.

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A report by Dame Sara Khan found that investigators were more concerned with the offence felt by local Islamists than the danger posed to the teacher. Something to keep in mind is that the report warned "of a wider cultural problem of 'self-appointed community faith leaders'".

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Finally, police officers were injured when fireworks were launched at them by pro-Palestine protesters in London. Many of these protesters were carrying anti-semitic or anti-white placards.

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One placard intertwined a swastika with the Star of David, one placard contrasted the "right side of history" with the "white side of history". In addition, many protesters wore Hamas headbands.

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In these cases many protesters were arrested, but faced light sentences. Of the many who wore Hamas headbands, I could find just one arrest, a Khaled Hajsaad who travelled from Birmingham and received no jail time despite his implicit support for a proscribed organisation.

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One judge, Tan Ikram, had liked pro-Palestine content online before giving conditional discharges to protesters who were arrested for terrorism. Ikram had previously sentenced police officers to time in jail for making racist remarks in private to one another.

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With this we have highlighted the leniency from the police & courts towards protesters who align with other causes: the left-wing, Islamism, and "counterprotests" against the far-right. But how are the "far-right" protesters in England being treated?

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Keir Starmer has waged war on them. While thousands of other violent criminals, including machete murderers, are being released to free up space in our jails, courts are fast tracking rioters. One rioter has already been sentenced. The southport murderer will be tried in January.

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Videos are being spread showing that the police are violently beating these protesters, despite their colleagues in other forces having retreated in Harehills. When asked about two tier policing by a journalist, Met Commissioner Mark Rowley knocked the microphone to the ground.

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In an interview yesterday, West Midlands Police indirectly admitted to two-tier policing when they attributed the lack of a police presence in Birmingham to their discussions with "community leaders", who assured them there would be no problems.

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West Midlands Police discuss disorder that kicked off after misinformation spread online. The Sky News crew covering the unrest in Birmingham were followed by a man holding a knife and wearing a balaclava after broadcasting live. https://trib.al/ses020Q

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There was a low police presence at a recent protest due to prior intelligence and strong community relations. The police response was based on information gathered with community leaders. Most protesters were peaceful, but a small minority caused trouble. The police made arrests and are working to apprehend those involved in disorder.

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Speaker 0: Why was there such a a low key, should we say, police presence? Because, I mean, clearly your offices were there, but they were not visible and yet there were an awful lot of people out and an awful lot of people who who were armed with various weapons. Speaker 1: So we have really strong, business and community relations. And because we were aware through intelligence that there was a potential protest through that misinformation yesterday, we had the opportunity to meet with community leaders, with business leaders prior to that event to kind of understand the style of policing that we needed to deliver during the course of that operation. So we knew that there was going to be a large amount of people out on that counter protest. We knew who the vast majority of those people were. We'd had conversations in terms of what that was likely to look like. And so our policing response was commensurate to that intelligence and the information that we'd held with our partners and communities prior to that event taking place. Speaker 0: Even given there were so many of them clearly armed, I mean, would you do the same if it was an EDL type situation? Speaker 1: So we we've placed in response to the intelligence that we received at that moment in time. What I would say is that the vast majority of people that attended that protest yesterday did so law abidingly and they did it with the right intentions. There were just a small minority of people that attended there and were intent on causing either criminality, disorder or fear within our communities. What we saw was a response from our communities where they were trying to kind of make sure that that was placed within themselves as well and trying to deter people from taking part in that disorder. And as a result, we've been able to go on, gather that evidence, gather that information. We have made arrests well, we've made an arrest this afternoon. We continue to try and make arrests in terms of those people that were involved in those disorders, yesterday.

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A reporter present in Birmingham, Fraser Knight, reported that he was chased out of the area by a mob of South Asians who followed him with what he suspects was a weapon. A similar situation was recorded by Sky News, whose journalists were harassed by masked protesters. https://t.co/YUE03L4lDm

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So far there is ample evidence of "counterprotesters" brandishing weapons and intimidating locals & the media, but Keir Starmer has only declared war on the "far-right" protesters. https://t.co/2sqVCbv1B7

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This level of gaslighting brings me to finish this thread with a note about Rotherham, where rioting spread. Rioters attempted to burn down a hotel hosting migrants, which has received rightful condemnation. But Rotherham was known before this as the centre of sex abuse gangs.

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Local politicians, social services, and the police collaborated to cover up the organised sexual abuse and rape of children by predominantly south Asian gangs. Their reason? According to some councillors, they feared that they would be fuelling racism. https://t.co/ynx4TP9eCZ

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You read that correctly. The possibility of people becoming racist was a bigger issue to the Rotherham Borough Council than the rape of children. Which leads me then to ask: would white people be let off with raping children as long as the police feared a backlash from whites?

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I am not condoning the riots. I explicitly condemn them. However I agree that these riots, just like the BLM riots, are a symptom of underlying problems. They did not emerge in a vacuum. This is the inevitable consequence of the government's choice to ignore concerns over mass immigration, and their two-tier policing is undeniable. Rioters who are labelled as "far-right" face the full force of the law, rapidly and without mercy. Rioters who aren't labelled far-right? Kiddy gloves.

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An addition: Far-right activist Sam Melia received two years in jail for putting up offensive stickers. Two years. On the contrary, a BLM rioter and "grooming gang" participant, Hamoud al-Soaimi, received no jail time for his sexual assault conviction. Very strange. https://t.co/sxSm3RXj8l