To think Nigel Farage should be locked up?

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He was inciting violence with his “address to the nation” speech, calling for rage.

Meanwhile, he doesn’t care when women are actually murdered by the police

https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/1371213488882847749?s=46

Surely enough is enough and they need to take action?

I'm aware of the guidance.

Hampshire Police currently have a higher disparity in stop and search rates between different ethnic groups than the national average, for example Black people in Hampshire are 5.1 times more likely than white people to be stopped. The national average is around 3.4 times more likely. So we are being expected to believe that officers on the ground apply the guidelines in a fast-moving, chaotic situation, but not apparently when carrying out day-to-day policing. I'm sceptical.

Digwa's been attacked in prison. Which is nice...

This story about the prison attack has been circulating for a day or so. Is it really true?

I think its clear that something impacted the officers judgement. Because to fail to check for injury when a member of the public reports being stabbed, whatever the circumstances, contravenes the absolute basic duty of care.
So I'd be inclined to think there was more going on than victim bias, and that the guidance is problematic does seem to be widely accepted.
My point was more that if that's the issue, that's what we need to focus on.
Statements that say Henry was ignored because he was white are turning this into something there is no evidence for, and are encouraging white people to believe themselves under threat.

I doubt it. There are no reports in mainstream media.

St Floyd is a disgusting thing to call him, FYI. Completely disparaging to a man who was murdered. (and I'm a police officer).

His death was a good thing for society. The man was an utter scumbag.

I read it more as a comment on how others have treated his memory (it’s others who canonise people, after all).

Though, having read about how he lived, I do feel quite disparaging about him. Don’t you?

It will be interesting to see how thorough the investigation is.

On this to fail to check for injury when a member of the public reports being stabbed, whatever the circumstances, contravenes the absolute basic duty of care.. You are right about a failure in the duty of care. However the police would not have seen Henry as just a member of the public. He was a suspect in an assault. That’s what was called in. So two things come into play. Firstly, it is not unheard of for suspects to feign injury. Secondly, and partly maybe due to the first issue, the police do not always treat suspects with much care initially.

I do think though that where ethnicity maybe did come into it is in the fact that Digwa is a Sikh. Much has been made of the fact that Sikhs are seen as ‘less trouble’ than other ethnic minorities. If the officers rarely if ever came across trouble from the Sikh community they may have been more willing to have believed him than someone from another ethnic or religious group, regardless of the colour of the suspect.

This

If the situation didn’t involve stabbing but they were both alleging racist attack who would get priority in that situation, if no-one white was involved

You are free to think that. I am free to think that it is not the job of the police to administer justice-it is their job to contain and deliver suspects to the whoever we as a society have appointed to administer justice on our behalf.

Is Pride Political? we had a large Pride event down here, not a single political affiliation on display, 10s of 1000s attended.

Police have always been involved in large community based events, it eases tensions, lets the Police seem more "human" and in touch with the public.

The Police were at the Royal Cornwall show last week end, joining in some of the displays, animal judging.....but i guess thats all ok as its nothing to do with the Gay community, which is the real reason some are against the Pride events.... if only we had a word for this sort of phobia?

The lack of proper policing in this country has sod all to do with Pride and everything to do with the cuts in Policing imposed by the Tories.... as anyone trying to report a crime over the phone or to a now shut down Police station.

You’ve sidestepped all the actual points in my comment.

On “is Pride political”, do you see the live debates I cited in my third para as political issues?

My post doesn’t object to police being “involved in” the communities it serves. It objects to marching alongside and painting cars in colours.

Should the police be “involved in” the Jewish community? Of course.

Should they march as police in Jewish or Israel marches and paint their cars with the Star of David?

I say not. I think it would undermine faith in their impartiality (same principle for Palestine marches).

How can police be instructed to do that differently depending on who the person is? The treat people differently part.

Yes @EasternStandard and that is why institutional misogyny and rascism has run rife through police forces up and down the country for decades. Otherwise they wouldn't have needed instruction to treat people differently. And so it goes.