The Met Police is investigating a clip of an anti-genocide protester criticising actor Helen Mirren’s Zionism as a hate crime. Mirren is a supporter of Israel and who wants it to last “for eternity”, but is not Jewish. Zionism is a political ideology – one that is intrinsically racist, ethno-supremacist and, as shown everywhere around […]
By Skwawkbox
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) welcomes the news that London mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan police deal with notorious US tech company Palantir. Prior to today’s announcement, over 1,000 PSC supporters in London emailed the mayor asking him to block the contract. It would have been Palantir’s largest ever contract in British policing. […]
By The Canary
The following article is an open letter from the Palestine Coalition to Mark Rowley, the Met Police commissioner The Palestine Coalition has today written to the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Mark Rowley, calling on him to retract his scurrilous and defamatory claims that we “set out with an intent to march near synagogues”. Mark Rowley: lie […]
By The Canary
The famously smart and efficient Met Police took it on themselves to amplify a Tommy Robinson tweet for no reason anyone can discern. Far-right grifter Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) was waffling about the horrific Golders Green attack at the time. The Met, in their infinite wisdom, decided to comment on 29 April. And in […]
By Joe Glenton
Metropolitan police officers have arrested ten peaceful protesters at an anti-genocide demonstration in Euston, London – in at least one case violently. Police violence in Euston On Wednesday 22 April the Israel Institute of Technology was holding a fundraising event for Israel at the Shaw Theatre. As London for Palestine wrote on its Instagram, the […]
By Skwawkbox
Another, now-former Metropolitan Police officer has been exposed after a misconduct panel found Ian Steel guilty of sexually grooming TV presenter Jackie Adedeji. Steel abused his position of power and used a fake identity to “fulfil his racialised sexual fantasy”. The panel said he would have been sacked for gross misconduct had he not already […]
By Skwawkbox
On Tuesday 17 March, Quakers will hold a silent Meeting for Worship outside New Scotland Yard. They’ll then join a mass lobby of parliament to defend the right to protest. The meeting follows two police raids on Quaker premises. On 5 March the Metropolitan Police raided Westminster Meeting House, arresting 15 people attending a nonviolent […]
By The Canary
A sitting member of the London Assembly – an elected body considered the ‘eyes and ears of Londoners‘ – delivered a blistering critique of London mayor Sadiq Khan. They have described him as “part of the problem” when it comes to racialised stop-and-search powers. Notably, these powers overwhelmingly target black Londonders. “Vital policing tool,” Khan […]
By The Canary
Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley has told the BBC that he ‘can see why women don’t trust the police’. His interview comes as we mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of Sarah Everard, murdered in 2021 by a serving police officer in the Met. Referring to ‘several ghastly cases of police officers committing […]
By Maddison Wheeldon
On 26 February, the Undercover Policing Inquiry, taking place in London, heard further testimony from Lois Austin. She was speaking about her experience during a mass police kettle in central London in 2001. Among details the inquiry heard were further accounts of the involvement of undercover officers (spycops) in protests. Austin described how police contained […]
By The Canary