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RIP Sarah Everard, who went missing from Brixton in March 2021

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We all knew the Met was wrong to ban our vigil for Sarah Everard

I don’t think I can fully explain how people feel about the verdict that Reclaim These Streets (RTS) received on Friday. The Met’s decision to ban the vigil we had planned to mark the murder of Sarah Everard was found to be “flawed at every single step of the process”. It comes as no surprise to...
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Article by Patsy Stevenson who attended the Sisters Uncut demo last weekend. She was the woman the police were photographed arresting at the Clapham Vigil.
 
Magnus McGinty said:
He's 'protected' in prison by Levi Bellfield; of all the people on earth a cop would want to be protected by.
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Considering how hated he must be in there, I daresay he's not in the position to be fussy about where he gets support...

Also, assuming the court sketch was accurate, he is looking very thin and wizened. Wonder why he lost his appetite. Prison food not great, or just angst-ridden guilt eating him up?
 
Sue said:
You'd think the Met would realise at some point that they should stop digging but no. Ffs. 😡

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Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police appeal against High Court ruling

Scotland Yard says the decision to appeal "is important for policing and the public".
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Appeal failed:

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Sarah Everard: Met Police bid to overturn vigil ruling rejected

Two High Court judges dismissed part of the force's appeal over a previous ruling as "hopeless".
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The judges described some of the Met's proposed grounds of appeal as "hopeless attempts to challenge reasoned factual conclusions", while others involved "a misreading of one passage of the judgment, ignoring the overall context".
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Now that Cressida Dick has gone it is to be seen if the Met changes its culture. Away from seeing any "attack" on its operational independence as undermining how this country works.

Certainly Dicks resignation letter showed no contrition. But took a swipe at the Mayor. Using the argument that politics is in danger of interfering with how the non political Met get on with their job. Like policing is non political. Which it isnt.

The last thing members of the establishment like Cressida Dick want is for people to protest. And then use the law to bring people who run things to account.
 
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What I find most disturbing about all of this is how establishment figures like Cressida Dick and the high ups in Met think they are hard done by "activists" , part of the legal profession, parts of the judiciary and "politicians". Even if they are centrist like Khan.

Hardly far lefty sections of society.

Does make the defund the Police argument have more credence imo.
 
Bindmans the legal firm who took this on view:

#ReclaimTheseStreets: Metropolitan Police refused permission to appeal by the High Court | Bindmans

The High Court refused the application of the Metropolitan Police for permission to appeal last month’s ruling in favour of Reclaim These Streets
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This make me think that the Met just do not want to listen. Given that going to court is one way in a democratic society that differences of opinion can to some extent be resolved the below shows how the Met is simply not interested in anything except its God given right to operational "independence". It didn't read the previous judgement and take it on board in any way.

On the second point, the court held that the Defendant’s arguments are for the most part ‘hopeless attempts to challenge reasoned factual conclusions’, and ‘lack coherence and fail to address the court’s reasoning as a whole’.
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Gramsci said:
Bindmans the legal firm who took this on view:

#ReclaimTheseStreets: Metropolitan Police refused permission to appeal by the High Court | Bindmans

The High Court refused the application of the Metropolitan Police for permission to appeal last month’s ruling in favour of Reclaim These Streets
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This make me think that the Met just do not want to listen. Given that going to court is one way in a democratic society that differences of opinion can to some extent be resolved the below shows how the Met is simply not interested in anything except its God given right to operational "independence". It didn't read the previous judgement and take it on board in any way.
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They’ll do the lessons learnt, take the judgement on board statements at some stage with a straight face after claiming it was wrong and they were right.
 
LeytonCatLady said:
Oh FFS. When will the Met get it through their head that they were in the wrong?

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See the video by the Assistant Commissioner of Met is using the few rotten apples in the barrel argument.

Rather than accept the court judgement Met are implying now the behaviour of officers at event was due to some police joining for the wrong reasons.

Top brass of Met just aren't going to take any criticism onboard of how they make decisions. Which was the point of the legal case.
 
teqniq said:
Met told to fuck off Again. What really pisses me off along with their arrogance is that they are wasting public money on this:

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Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police refused appeal over High Court ruling

The Met Police cannot appeal against a ruling that it breached the rights of vigil organisers.
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Not too much of it. What really pisses me off is they're told in no uncertain terms their case is crap and they carry on regardless, it's not to me a question of money public or otherwise but the notion that one more roll of the dice will see their view accepted. Tbh if it's a waste of public money that's a concern then all they need do is stop breaking the law in their dealings with the public and lo and behold people would stop suing them and receiving compo
 
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Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police charges six attendees

Six people are due before magistrates accused of breaching Covid restrictions in March 2021.
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Astonishingly, the Met is prosecuting four people over Covid rule violations at the Sarah Everard vigil. This has some interesting political ramifications, as people will compare the treatment of these four people who met in the open air to protest the rape and murder of a woman by a police officer, with the kid gloves treatment afforded Boris as he did his"duty", attending Downing Street parties and officials' farewell events to "thank them for their service".

The optics will be terrible.
 
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urbanspaceman said:
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Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police charges six attendees

Six people are due before magistrates accused of breaching Covid restrictions in March 2021.
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Astonishingly, the Met is prosecuting four people over Covid rule violations at the Sarah Everard vigil. This has some interesting political ramifications, as people will compare the treatment of four people meeting in the open air to protest the rape and murder of a woman by a police officer, with the kid gloves treatment afforded Boris as he did his"duty", attending Downing Street parties and officials' farewell events to "thank them for their service". The optics will be terrible.
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Sue said:
You'd think the Met would realise at some point that they should stop digging but no. Ffs. 😡

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Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police appeal against High Court ruling

Scotland Yard says the decision to appeal "is important for policing and the public".
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😡
 
urbanspaceman said:
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Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police charges six attendees

Six people are due before magistrates accused of breaching Covid restrictions in March 2021.
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Astonishingly, the Met is prosecuting four people over Covid rule violations at the Sarah Everard vigil. This has some interesting political ramifications, as people will compare the treatment of four people meeting in the open air to protest the rape and murder of a woman by a police officer, with the kid gloves treatment afforded Boris as he did his"duty", attending Downing Street parties and officials' farewell events to "thank them for their service". The optics will be terrible.
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The police know how to keep it classy
 
teqniq said:
Met told to fuck off Again. What really pisses me off along with their arrogance is that they are wasting public money on this:

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Sarah Everard vigil: Met Police refused appeal over High Court ruling

The Met Police cannot appeal against a ruling that it breached the rights of vigil organisers.
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Its vindictiveness.

Their appeal was rejected. So next day they decide to take out their resentment on a few of the protestors.

The petty nastiness of State bureaucracy isn't to be underestimated.

It comes a day after the Met Police was refused permission for a second time to appeal against a High Court ruling that said the force breached the rights of the organisers of the official vigil when it told them they faced £10,000 fines and prosecution if it went ahead.
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