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To be angry at the frenzy caused by others last night

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BarometerTV · 14/03/2021 12:56

I think it was utterly disrespectful. We are in lockdown and it was not the right time for a protest. I agree with a quiet, respectful, socially distanced space to grieve - which is what appeared to happen during the day.

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LexMitior · 14/03/2021 22:47

So - bourgeois jolly hockey sticks, hold like Gloria Swason

People in pub, held more harshly? Or more nicely, or what?

If it’s that bad up where you are, then complain to your own force.

You admit that you just lump the two groups together as a class.

LexMitior · 14/03/2021 22:49

I mean, are the police not tough enough on the hockey stick girls?

Flaxmeadow · 14/03/2021 22:49

You need to watch the video before you continue posting like this.

I have

They put her on the floor by force, from behind

She was being handcuffed. So what?

LexMitior · 14/03/2021 22:52

Right. So you are good with that because it’s middle class women by your estimate and worse or similar or better happens down your local pubs?

Flaxmeadow · 14/03/2021 22:55

I just can't get worked up about some posh people, protesting in a posh park, getting arrested when they refuse to go home. They weren't even thrown in the cells, they only got an on the spot fine

Was anyone injured?

RhubarbCustardy · 14/03/2021 22:56

From a different perspective-how awful for Sarah's family to have this happen on top of her murder. The quiet day vigil would've been enough. We're in lockdown and people just put others at risk. I feel sorry for the police tbh.

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 14/03/2021 22:58

@Flaxmeadow

You need to watch the video before you continue posting like this.

I have

They put her on the floor by force, from behind

She was being handcuffed. So what?

Then whyever would you lie about her resisting arrest and deliberately throwing herself onto the floor, then?
Troublewaters2021 · 14/03/2021 23:00

Middle class people in a posh park 😂😂😬😬
I grew up there spent a lot of time on that command and it is not really posh.

BonnieDundee · 14/03/2021 23:01

I feel sorry for the police tbh

I'll save my sympathy for the victims of male violence not the perpetrators

BonnieDundee · 14/03/2021 23:02

@Flaxmeadow

You need to watch the video before you continue posting like this.

I have

They put her on the floor by force, from behind

She was being handcuffed. So what?

Definitely on the wind up again about male violence to women
LucieStar · 14/03/2021 23:02

They put her on the floor by force, from behind

To be fair, they were clearly trying to talk to her for a while before they arrested her. She wasn't even engaging with them. The arrest could have been avoided if she'd engaged with them.

MercyBooth · 14/03/2021 23:02

@Flaxmeadow Im a working class social housing tenant And when it comes to Covid i only have to turn on the TV, open a newspaper/magazine, go on the internet and see the celebs and presenters hair and then compare it with mine to see how more is expected of some of us re, Covid rules.

Roussette · 14/03/2021 23:02

I just can't get worked up about some posh people, protesting in a posh park, getting arrested when they refuse to go home. They weren't even thrown in the cells, they only got an on the spot fine

Ahhhh... envy of some sort creeping in.

That explains it. It's all a posh innit down in Clapham. That explains it.

LexMitior · 14/03/2021 23:03

Well, fair enough if you aren’t bothered. It bothers me. Your pubs don’t sound great. The police have made some bad mistakes and so have the government. I’m sure the police were under pressure, but the kettling decision was wrong, and the actual trial of the suspect could be an issue for the Met far beyond the facts of the instant crime.

That’s the context - and it’s why even Priti Patel has had to go to the bother of an independent report. It matters, and it’s not like pub chucking out time.

rippledegg · 14/03/2021 23:03

How many of you realise that a large part of people there had gone there not to take part in a vigil but to purely cause trouble and fight with the police

Exactly. This is the oldest trick in the book and some continue to pretend they don't realise and keep on criticising the police for trying to do their job under extremely difficult circumstances.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 14/03/2021 23:04

How awful for Sarah's family to have this happen on top of her murder

Indeed

Pretty awful too that hardly anyone's commented on the many posts saying the same thing.
I'd have thought that, at this early stage, thoughts could be on the grieving family and their wish for this not to take place be respected, but apparently not

LucieStar · 14/03/2021 23:05

@Puzzledandpissedoff

How awful for Sarah's family to have this happen on top of her murder

Indeed

Pretty awful too that hardly anyone's commented on the many posts saying the same thing.
I'd have thought that, at this early stage, thoughts could be on the grieving family and their wish for this not to take place be respected, but apparently not

That was one of my first comments on that thread. How awful for her family on top of their own grief right now.

WhereverIlaymyhat2021 · 14/03/2021 23:05

@JofraArchersFastestBall the irony of your post is unbelievable, sheltered and privileged?? Women are murdered all the time and in similar circumstances to Sarah Everard and it’s a disgrace but what’s also a disgrace is that no one gave a shit until it happened to ‘someone they could empathise with’, what a nice middle class millennial? I think it’s you who needs to check your privilege.

Last night was appalling on so many levels, but it must have been horrific for Sarah’s family. My heart breaks for her poor mother, today of all days seeing this, and all the majority of people on here want to do is use her death as an excuse to have a go at the police. I challenged a poster on another friend on this and they said well ‘they were probably upset but’...but fucking what and probably of yeah they were probably upset?!? There’s a time and a place and for Sarah’s family it’s not on Mother’s Day a few days after your daughter’s dead body was found.

LucieStar · 14/03/2021 23:06

There’s a time and a place and for Sarah’s family it’s not on Mother’s Day a few days after your daughter’s dead body was found.

Well said.

WhereverIlaymyhat2021 · 14/03/2021 23:07

@LucieStar and @Puzzledandpissedoff yes I mentioned it on another thread and was shouted down, told they’re probably upset....but obviously that’s not the primary concern and that ‘it isn’t about Sarah now’ well yes they got the latter right didn’t they!

LucieStar · 14/03/2021 23:11

[quote WhereverIlaymyhat2021]**@LucieStar* and @Puzzledandpissedoff* yes I mentioned it on another thread and was shouted down, told they’re probably upset....but obviously that’s not the primary concern and that ‘it isn’t about Sarah now’ well yes they got the latter right didn’t they![/quote]
Sad dreadful

Flaxmeadow · 14/03/2021 23:12

Ahhhh... envy of some sort creeping in.

That explains it. It's all a posh innit down in Clapham. That explains it.

More classist shutting down and cancelling of working class opinion. You also sound like Thatcher

Don't get me wrong, there is a valid argument that the streets are not safe for women and girls, I know all about that, I used to live in Rochdale but this protest was just grandstanding, literally grandstanding on a bandstand.

Was anyone injured?

Lineofconcepcion · 14/03/2021 23:14

@Flaxmeadow

People comparing this to the miners strike, seriously?

The miners strike was a genuine working class uprising, not some chattering class attempted siege of a park bandstand

I know because I was on the line during the miners strike and at Wapping. So do you think the right to protest rests only with the working classes then? Are you deliberately being obtuse?

Clearly you think protesting about violence against women is not a worthy cause. Why don't you open your eyes. Please Angry

The action by the police was inflammatory and insensitive and unnecessary and considering the victim was probably brutally murdered by a member of that very same police force, when he should have been immediately suspended for the allegations of indecent exposure made against him, which might, just might have led to his arrest and thus might have prevented this murder. Who knows. It just seems to me, men continue to get away with sexual and violent crime against women time and time again.

It's a shame misogyny isn't confined to men.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 14/03/2021 23:17

Yes, LucieStar, I saw that comment "It isn't about Sarah now" - something I might have understood if we were weeks down the line, but not when she's only just died

Ironic, perhaps, that it was from a poster demanding respect for women ...

BonnieDundee · 14/03/2021 23:18

It's a shame misogyny isn't confined to men.

Absolutely Sad

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