Thread 1/9 Comes as no surprise that leadership of Scottish Police Federation produce research for their own ‘quasi’ magazine to demand GUNS-Thankfully their out of touch leadership, who haven’t been beat cops for years, will never get to make that decision #ShekuBayoh
2/9 -Headline is inaccurate- 40% of police officers were not victims of assault last year- that statistic applies to 40% of 1698 officers their Federation surveyed, not 17,283 officers deployed by @policescotland making it just 3% not 40% of officers
3/9 The headline is disingenuous, more than half of Scots Cops do not want guns, it is the officers the Federation surveyed which means it’s actually only 899 officers making it just 5% of 17,283 police officers in Scotland 🙈
4/9 To take away from the spinning of stats, the reality is that the last time a police was sadly killed in a violent assault in Scotland was as far back as 1994- today’s officers are more heavily armed, with access to greater resources & back up than ever before
5/9 That a police officer faces assault is not acceptable, but it does not make it reasonable or proportionate to call for arming all officers with lethal weapons- especially when you consider that a large proportion of those assaults will be minor
6/9 Where is analysis of the assaults, the breakdown of was it a push, punch or a knife, how many were actually reported, how many convicted, how of those assaults were serious assault,attempted murder or murder?
7/9 Multiple officers had no difficulty in bringing #ShekuBayoh to the ground in less than 42 seconds, spraying him,batoned, covered with lacerations, bruises,he died in police custody-A gun would have allowed officers to shoot 1st & ask questions later,but they did that already!
8/9 As for body cameras it’s about time they were introduced,it’s the norm in other democracies, on so many occasions it stops the escalation of police violence & holds officers to account- the fact that it is still out for consultation is shameful & pathetic
9/9 The SPF prefers ‘militarisation’ & can scream about it all day long, in their so called magazine ‘1919’ which they fund, with journalists they pay to write for them, to promote their views, of course they can it’s a free society? 🙈
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🧵1/21 Crushing defeat for @RishiSunak on Suella & Priti’s cruel flagship policy-Supreme Court rules unanimously UK Govt.’s inhumane policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘UNLAWFUL’- not just ECHR but a no. of international treaties apply-a summary👇
🧵2/21 This Government is not above the rule of international law, as the Supreme Court unanimously dismisses the Home Secretary's appeal & upholds the Court of Appeal's conclusion that the Rwanda policy is unlawful. supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…
🧵3/21-This is because there are substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers would face a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement to their country of origin if they were removed to Rwanda.
🧵1/8 Canada’s Parliament along with Trudeau & Zelensky gave a standing ovation to Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian because he fought against the Russians in WW2, but he’d served in the Nazi’s Ukrainian 14th Waffen, aka SS Galincha. implicated in the mass murder of Jews & others
🧵2/8 Formed in 1943, SS Galichina was recruited from Galicia region in Ukraine. The unit was armed & trained by the Nazis commanded by German officers. In 1944, the division was visited by SS head Heinrich Himmler, who spoke of the soldiers’ “willingness to slaughter Poles.”
🧵3/8 Three months earlier, SS Galichina subunits perpetrated what is known as the Huta Pieniacka massacre, burning 500 to 1,000 Polish villagers alive. The town was razed to the ground and most of its inhabitants were murdered, including many young children.
1/14 -🧵🪡 on the outrage over Sean Hogg, 21, who raped girl, 13, in park freed from court after judge considered him too young to be jailed & imposed 270 hours community service- but sentence guidelines for young people don’t stop custodial sentences👇lbc.co.uk/news/man-who-r…
3/14🧵-A spokesperson for the Crown Office said: "As with all cases, the Crown will consider the sentence and give consideration to whether it might be unduly lenient."
1/5 🧵Queen not even buried, but Charles appoints disgraced Prince Andrew as Counsellor of State to stand in for him if he’s ill or out of UK- he was friends with rapist sex trafficker Epstein & settled a sexual assault case with £12M of our money -but don’t criticise the 👑?
2/5 Remember in 2021 we were told that Charles opposed Andrew’s return- what happened? I wait to hear what the fervent Royalists have to say about this ‘man’ being a defacto head of state🤴🏻🇬🇧 marieclaire.co.uk/royal-news/pri…
3/5 Andrew’s sister Princess Anne is not allowed because under the Regency Act 1937 male heirs had 1st right to the throne over females – a rule known as male royal primogeniture.
1/13 Put bluntly the most senior Judges in Scotland have delivered @scotgov a devastating indictment on its consultation on Legal Services Regulation Reform- essentially accusing 🏴Govt of interference with the rule of law & an independent judiciary judiciary.scot/home/media-inf…
2/13- “The foundation of our democracy is the rule of law & ..the separation of powers. An independent legal profession & ..judiciary, is central to the operation of the rule of law; the protection of the public from the arbitrary abuse of power by the state depends upon it”
3/13- “It is of grave concern that this consultation fails to recognise suitably the constitutional importance of the Lord President and the Court of Session’s role in regulating the legal profession.”
1/14 -a thread - Three years ago today, the body of a 16-year-old child was found hanging in his cell at Polmont, some 72 hours after he arrived there on remand. His name was #WilliamLindsay 💔
2/14- On the 4 Oct 2018 William was sent to prison by our courts because our criminal justice system could not find a children’s secure unit place & the desperate concerns of his social workers went ignored.
3/14William was in & out of care since the age of 3, he had multiple placements, and resided in secure accommodation, self-harming since the age of 8, considered a high risk of suicide from the age of 13 & had on several occasions attempted to take his own life.