3/8 In just a few seconds in a BBC interview he did so much damage in his desire to provide those all important political soundbites.
He dismissed the Black Lives Matter campaign as a mere moment when in fact it’s a movement against state sanctioned racism and oppression 4/8 that has been decades in the making.
He made it all about America when police brutality against black people is a reality here in the UK.
He didn’t appear to have done his due diligence about what ‘defunding the police’ really means.

Thread. I need to speak. Bear with me. I shouldn’t have to say it but I don’t condone criminality. I do support really understanding why people ( especially young people in this case) commit crime & the need for well resourced early interventions. Interventions that lead people out of criminality. That give them hope. That help break the cycle. On the front of the @ipswichstar24 today are faces of a ‘drugs gang’ jailed for a total of 72 years. They brought fear & exploitation to Ipswich. I’m very sad for their victims.