Thread by @copscampaign

His memory loss was less extensive than the other former #spycops we've heard from. But memory loss can be a selective thing.
He clammed up when asked about the events in Southall on 23 April '79 & claimed not to remember anyone in the @metpoliceuk discussing Blair Peach's death.

https://twitter.com/DaveBlacklist/status/1390971014536892416

@metpoliceuk ...even though we know that #spycops attended Blair's funeral, and spied on the subsequent campaigning for justice ever since. Coates said he couldn't remember any discussion of all that within the SDS.

#spycopsinquiry

@metpoliceuk Although he was able to share some clear memories of the offensively sexist jokes & banter he heard in the #spycops safe-house....
#InstitutionalSexism
#institutionalracism

@metpoliceuk he claimed the #spycops weren't racist

When asked if the banter was racist in nature, he replied “No, not overtly so, I don't think.”

#spycopsinquiry

@metpoliceuk Pressed on this:
“Are you in a position to say positively that it wasn't, or is it a case that it might have been and you simply can't remember? “

“There is a possibility that it might have been, but I don't think it was.“