Police forces must ‘stop humoring’ eco-activists, Suella Braverman said yesterday.
The Home Secretary [equivalent to the U.S. Attorney General] accused officers of letting protests get out of control because of their ‘reluctance’ to tackle ‘criminal disruption’.
Her demand came after Just Stop Oil activists brought more chaos to the M25, leading to a crash in which a constable was injured. [emphasis, links added]
She suggested that members of the public were taking the law into their own hands because they had lost faith in the police.
But her remarks drew a sharp response from Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley, who said: ‘We can’t take snipers to people who are climbing the gantries.’
The row came as an Extinction Rebellion member and Green Party candidate pelted eggs at King Charles [pictured above] in a protest about Britain’s slavery past and:
- A police chief told campaigners to ‘grow up,’ warning ‘someone is going to get killed’;
- Officers came under fire for locking up journalists legally covering the protests;
- The head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council also said the activists’ tactics were becoming more dangerous;
- Mrs. Braverman dubbed Just Stop Oil as ‘extremists’ at the council’s conference.
The Home Secretary said: ‘There is a bit of a hesitation within police right now to take action. Events today show this is out of control.
‘Although most police officers do an excellent job, sadly, in recent months and years we have seen an erosion of confidence in the police to take action against the radicals, the road-blockers, the vandals, the militants, and the extremists.
‘But we have also seen the police appear to lose confidence in themselves – in yourselves, in your authority, in your power – an institutional reluctance. This must change.
‘Criminal damage, obstructing the highway, public nuisance – none of it should be humored. Scenes of members of the public taking the law into their own hands are a sign of a loss of confidence and I urge you all to step up to your public duties.’
Read rest at Daily Mail
Noo more kid glove treatments of these idiots start arresting them and throwing then in jail and start cracking down hard on Just Stop Oil time to strand the idiots in the Wilderness