'upsetting' is all well and good @pritipatel but could you:
1. withdraw your #PoliceCrackdownBill from Parliament this week
2. support an urgent change to the lockdown regs to add an explicit protest exemption
platitudes won't cut it.
1. withdraw your #PoliceCrackdownBill from Parliament this week
2. support an urgent change to the lockdown regs to add an explicit protest exemption
platitudes won't cut it.
https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1370856092062912512
for everyone saying 'well BLM and other protests have been allowed to go ahead', please read this from @netpol which found that the policing of BLM protests was institutionally racist. people were kettled; people were unable to seek medical attention netpol.org/black-lives-ma…
please also see what happened to asylum seekers protesting unsafe and undignified living conditions at Napier Barracks - they were threatened with enforcement bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
see also what happened to a Trans Rights Collective protest, organised even when there was an explicit protest exemption in the regulations - it was cancelled libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/liberty-…
yesterday was not an isolated incident, and this problem is much bigger than #CressidaDick.
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