Last night's scenes at Clapham Common show exactly why we can't let @pritipatel ram through a #PoliceCrackdownBill that would give her and police forces sweeping powers to shut down protest and silence dissenting voices.
Unless you want to lose the right to speak out freely and protest effectively, I urge everyone to write to your MP URGENTLY asking them to stop the #PoliceCrackdownBill in its track. There's a useful template here: docs.google.com/document/d/1E5…
. Among many other things, it would enshrine in law a potential 10 year prison sentence for any kind of protest that the Home Office and @pritipatel considers 'disruptive' #PoliceCrackdownBill
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Thread: To all the women scared to #ReclaimTheseStreets as a result of police intimidation around £10k fines for covid-safe vigils. This is just the beginning... @pritipatel’s new Police & Crime Bill introduced this week will criminalise nearly all forms of effective protest..
They want to enshrine the limitations on civil liberties that we’ve seen under the pandemic in law and restrict the ways we can legally protest going forward. Noone knows about this bill yet you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/prot…
Read more here and do everything you can to spread the word. Or this will become the new law of the land under the radar and we’ll wake up one day soon having lost our right to protest theguardian.com/law/2021/mar/1…