Met Police to crack down on ‘hate protesters’ with new ways

Nov 02, 2023 at 6:02 PM
Met Police to crack down on ‘hate protesters’ with new ways

The Metropolitan Police has mentioned it can crack down on hate protesters this weekend with a sequence of latest ways.

The Met has been criticised in latest weeks for the way it has dealt with some protesters in the course of the pro-Palestine marches.

While the vast majority of these marching have been peaceable, some have waved offensive flags and shouted provocative slogans.

Ahead of one other spherical of protests this weekend, the police mentioned they’d deploy new ways focusing on “troublemakers”.

They added that as a part of these measures, they’d “chase people down”.

Sir Mark Rowley mentioned police would use “sharper interventions to make arrests in big crowds”.

He added that they may analyse social media and use retrospective facial recognition to detain extremists committing hate crimes.

People supporting banned terrorist organisations resembling Hamas will even reportedly be arrested.

Mr Rowley additionally revealed that round 70 to 80 suspects have been arrested over hate crimes in relation to the IsraelHamas battle.

Mr Rowley mentioned counter-terrorism officers had been additionally trying into 250 potential terrorist offences involving on-line materials.

He additionally mentioned that some extremists may very well be “provoked” into attacking and that the problem police had been dealing with was “unprecedented”.

The announcement of a change in police ways comes days after the CEO of Campaign Against Antisemitism mentioned that police were appeasing the mob rather than protecting the Jewish community.

Gideon Falter informed Express.co.uk there was a terrifying distinction between how police handled pro-Palestine protesters and the way they handled members of his charity.

Mr Falter mentioned: “You see people literally calling for Jihad under the banner of Muslim armies and somebody waving an Al Qaeda flag and saying ‘Allah’s curses be on the infidels, Allah’s curses be on the Jews’, and the police spending their day on social media telling everybody that no crime is being committed and there is nothing for them to act against.

“On the one hand, we get completely leapt upon by the police by daring to indicate the faces of kids kidnapped by terrorists, whereas individuals overtly espousing jihad and waving the Al Qaeda flag are defined away as lawful protesters.”

He added: “We’re a really mushy goal for them [the police]. I get it in case you are a couple of thousand law enforcement officials policing a mob of 100,000 and there’s mass criminality inside that crowd it should be a very scary factor to do.

Mr Falter mentioned he was fearful in regards to the implications for the Jewish neighborhood if the police did not act.

He mentioned: “What we can not afford to have is a state of affairs the place each weekend, the Jewish neighborhood is cowered into concern by these marches going down via central London while the police appease the mob and fail to behave.

“Each time that they fail to act the mob will become emboldened the protest will become more dangerous until we’re back in the territory of 2021 where we had car convoys driving through Jewish areas of London shouting ‘Eff the Jews, rape their daughters’.”

Express.co.uk has contacted the Metropolitan Police for remark relating to the problems raised by Mr Falter.