cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news/t/316149
Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news/t/316149
Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020
Notting Hill Carnival is a bit dodgy, by I can’t blame them during the BLM stuff seeing the riots that kicked off over it in the US.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that the (notoriously (and institutionally) racist) Met used.
It seems like smart thinking to me, people were burning down and taking over chunks of cities in the US, personally I don’t want that happening in London and if it did would support the, well not very big guns in the grand scheme of things, being brought out. To be fair, I’d support them doing the same to far right protests if the same level of rioting took place.