A male member of Palestine Action hit a policewoman in the back with a sledgehammer and broke her spine

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/18/pro-palestine-activists-used-sledgehammers-in-action-at-israel-linked-firm-uk-court-told

The poor woman was on the floor facing away from him when he hit her in the back with a sledgehammer and broke her spine. They also brought whips and used them on the security guards.

I'm so appalled by these vile thugs and mortified for the elderly useful idiots who got themselves arrested for supporting them

That is awful that people were hurt. There is no point to protest if you hurt innocents in the same way the people you are protesting against do

Jesus christ. That is disgusting.

They think it's all shits and giggles don't they. Pillocks.

Fucking hell, poor police officer.

Scum

My relative is a police officer who does that type of crowd control policing demos and such like. He said that all demos attract a certain subset of thugs that just like to come at the end for the fight and they don’t care about the cause, they like to attack the police. It could be pro this anti that they don’t care, they just want to smash a bottle or throw a firework and hurt someone. So I’d be careful about associating that type of brutality with any cause unless the police has actually investigated the person and said it’s their thing, it could well be the violence itself is their thing.

To add, sorry, I commented without reading the article. I see the police have done exactly that. I hope these people get put away for a long time.

I hope they are found guilty and made an example of with long sentences. Absolute scumbags.

What on earth are you talking about, they went under the name Palestine action and were shouting the slogans at the officers camera after breaking in during the night in a modified van, each bringing sledgehammers and whips. They were hardly passing opportunist football hooligans!

edited: saw your correction, never mind 👍🏻

I hope they all get ten years minimum.

Who would be a police officer, honestly.

Poor woman to have a broken spine as a result of that thug.

Fucking hell. I am fuming because when I posted about this a bunch of people piled on to tell me that no one had attacked anyone with a sledgehammer and that it was an innocent sledgehammer merely to be used for breaking and entering, including one poster who had got himself arrested for supporting Palestine Action.

I hope they all read this and feel utterly ashamed about what they were supporting.

Hardly the noble cause it was painted

violent thugs

I remember reading about this on Mumsnet months ago. It seems like very few of the protestors supporting PA were aware of it, or they were downplaying it ? Not sure.

I'd be very curious to hear from anyone that has been supportive of Palestine Action to share whether they were aware of this?

I think their behaviour was monstrous and that it completely and utterly lets down the very cause they were supposedly supporting.

The man who used a sledgehammer on the policewoman’s back, and broke her back, is nothing but psychopathic thug using Palestine as an excuse. I hate to think how badly she may have been hurt, possibly permanently.

I did not know about this before.

Disgusting scumbags.
I bet that one was extra glad he got to hurt a woman. Abhorrent.

Disgusting bunch of thugs. Throw away the key.

I know nothing about this case apart from what I've just read in that article.

But I would say that what was presented was the Prosecution case only. And their job is to present the worst possible reading of a situation.

What the Prosecution says may well be the reading of the facts as the jury sees it. But until I hear the defence and the cross examination, I'll reserve judgement.

Interesting he went for a woman, facing away from him. The coward.

"The jury was shown footage of 6 August taken by police body-worn cameras as well as GoPro cameras worn by those involved in the action. Heer said that at one point Head and Zainab Rajwani grinned at the camera and said: “You’ve been ‘Pal Action’d’.”"

Yeah, I'm sure it's going to be one that the jury will really agonise over.

The person who did this is obviously an absolute cunt who deserves to be locked up for a very long time, and my heart goes out to the poor police officer.

My impression is that many of the pensioners who were locked up were concerned about restriction to the right to protest and proscribing them being a slippery slope, rather than a deep undying devotion to PA itself.

Going armed with sledgehammers and actually attacking an officer on the ground who could not have represented any threat to you - it beggars belief.

But what really caught my eye here was that this article is in the Guardian. An article showing pro-Palestinian activists to be less than sweet angels? In the Guardian?!?!

Then they are fuckwits who should have picked their cause more carefully.

"I support Palestine Action's right to continue to exist and organise actions such as the one were a female police officer's spine was broken"

What heroes they are.

It was recorded on body cam
that the protester smashed the female officer on the back with a sledgehammer, not once but twice, while she was on the ground and facing away from him. Her spine was broken by this vicious excuse for a human being.

There is absolutely no justification for that action and nothing whatsoever to reserve judgment about in my opinion.