If, as Cressida Dick here states, the vigil was unlawful how, one wonders, did Kate Middleton manage to escape arrest - or indeed any sanction at all? 
Her refusal to acknowledge the facts - that the Judge anticipated the Met engaging with @ReclaimTS about the form of a vigil, that after proper engagement a lawful vigil could have been held, and that had that happened last night might have been avoided - is really troubling.
Of course, if the Tories persist in their snowflake attempt to criminalise much peaceful protest, Cressida may come to be right for future vigils.
This analysis is internally contradictory (it wasn't lawful/it started off being lawful). But worse, it sidesteps the Met's responsibility for the fact the vigil could not be properly run because the Met refused to engage with @ReclaimTS.
This 👆 refusal to engage matters because it suggests Cressida Dick is digging in around no engagement with organisers. Which is very likely to mean more problems in the future (as I observed this morning).
https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1371002763291820032?s=20
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