Kelly-Jay currently being arrested in Leeds

[BettyFloop]

She's live streaming on YT

@MillyMollyFarmer

I'll see if I can find the thread link Why do that work for such a rude dismissive poster who can’t be arsed watching the video? I wouldn’t bother

Quite!

Sapphos knows EXACTLY who Posie is and the work she is doing!!

So tedious!

TheFleegleHasLanded

<strong>Some of the women arrested are Leeds Spinners and Leeds ReSisters. The video is shocking</strong>

youtu.be/37xGXaK3pqA

Who is the man in the grey hoodie? Plain clothes police? He has a lanyard and ID of some sort round his neck, but (unlike the uniformed officers) no badge number clearly visible (I heard some of the Spinners saying "get their badge numbers.") All a bit scarily totalitarian from my viewpoint.

@Kazakaren

Without placards we're nothing

Oh gosh. The placards. Why didn't someone think to bring placards

I love placards.

that’s what I do too, when I don’t care about something I go to the people who do care about it and I repeatedly tell them I don’t care about it and how irrelevant they all are, just to make sure they get how much I don’t care and how nobody else cares and how totally pointless it is. I tell them repeatedly so it’s clear I don’t care or even know about what they care about.

😂😂😂🤣

@SorryImKnew

quite a lot of women care about women’s rights dear

Yes, 14 of them in Leeds it appears.

Well there’s a global viral pandemic, localised lockdowns, enforced social distancing and the threat of being attacked by TRAs or arrested by the police so....

@Redshoeblueshoe

Well I am off to Style and Beauty. I'll tell them no one cares what they wear.

Does that mean I have to stay there all afternoon ?

Yes.

Don’t forget to spend at least an hour wondering why they would even want to talk about clothes anyway.

The rights of women and girls sapphos

The safeguarding of all children

The erasing of the word women

@CaraDuneRedux

TheFleegleHasLanded

<strong>Some of the women arrested are Leeds Spinners and Leeds ReSisters. The video is shocking</strong>

youtu.be/37xGXaK3pqA

Who is the man in the grey hoodie? Plain clothes police? He has a lanyard and ID of some sort round his neck, but (unlike the uniformed officers) no badge number clearly visible (I heard some of the Spinners saying "get their badge numbers.") All a bit scarily totalitarian from my viewpoint.

There is more than one - he is not alone.

Like I said, it is like watching the choreography of a ballet.

There's a lot of deletions on this thread.

Hi 👋 monitors.

Afternoon all. We've had to delete a fair few posts for troll hunting, we're afraid. Please can we ask you to stop troll hunting and singling out particular posters? If you have concerns that folk are not posting in good faith, please report them to us directly rather than addressing it on the thread - all that does is derail a discussion.

If the troll hunting continues, we're going to have to zap the thread entirely.

The videos from Leeds Spinners are really upsetting. Unbelievable how the police handled this. They were aware of the protest, it was totally legal, and yet they still had aggressive and ignorant officers manhandling women who were clearly doing nothing wrong. Of course none of the counter-protestors were arrested. Presumably it's political to counter women's rights even though women's rights aren't political? It's genuinely upsetting to see.

Who is the man in the grey hoodie? Plain clothes police?

There was a counter protest, witch finder general of Leeds had 'friends' there.

You wouldn't have thought that something 'not political' would have needed a counter protest.

@Melroses

So it's "not a political protest," and simply a public order/breach of covid regulations issue according to uniformed police, and yet at the same time important enough that the police appear to be being directed in their actions by a plain clothes officer (or possibly more than one plain clothes officer) - who presumably in the normal run of things would be far too important to be attending a mere breach of covid regs gathering... but somehow happened to be there.

That image of the woman in a "Thought Criminal" t-shirt being loaded into the van by two uniformed officers seems more and more apt.

Janice Turner, James Kirkup, other journalists following this - there's a story here.

I must personally apologise to the derailers. I can't get to any protests atm as I'm shielding and have been pretty much unable to leave my house for the last six months. Obviously just not dedicated enough to literally risk death to attend. Bad feminist!!

@PronounssheRa

Who is the man in the grey hoodie? Plain clothes police?

There was a counter protest, witch finder general of Leeds had 'friends' there.

So grey hoodie is either plain clothes police (ominously authoritarian and clear over-reach) or one of the witch-finder general's pals, apparently managing to tell the police what to do (even more scary - the police now take orders from a group of randoms who've appointed themselves as the thought police).

Either of those grey-hoodie possibilities is extremely scary and upsetting.

God, some women are so brave.

My source at the protest says definitely police Cara

[quote CaraDuneRedux]@Melroses

So it's "not a political protest," and simply a public order/breach of covid regulations issue according to uniformed police, and yet at the same time important enough that the police appear to be being directed in their actions by a plain clothes officer (or possibly more than one plain clothes officer) - who presumably in the normal run of things would be far too important to be attending a mere breach of covid regs gathering... but somehow happened to be there.

That image of the woman in a "Thought Criminal" t-shirt being loaded into the van by two uniformed officers seems more and more apt.

Janice Turner, James Kirkup, other journalists following this - there's a story here.[/quote]
I was trying to work out how many it took to arrest one socially distanced protestor within of small group of socially distanced protestors.

Money to burn in Leeds.

Someone please make sure this is archived.

@LouMumsnet - please do not zap this thread. A woman, engaged in legitimate political protest (whether one agrees with her aims or not - she is campaigning against proposed changes to UK legislation, and if that doesn't come under the heading "political" I don't know what does) has been arrested by police who have taken it upon themselves to decide that her protest is not political. Police acting under the direction either of unidentified plain clothes officers, or possibly activists from the other side of the political debate.

It is in the public interest to keep this thread up. By all means delete the troll hunting, but do not pull the thread.

Loving the live feed from inside the police van

@HotPatootiebootie

:(

They certainly hate white working class girls.

See I can understand how one random uniformed officer stumbling across this might not get that the protest was a legitimate political protest ( although the arrest seems a total overreaction).

However the presence of non uniform police suggests a higher level of awareness of what was happening and why, so why consider arrests in that case?

It seems a really strange police reaction to very small group of socially distanced women reading out a political statement.

Afternoon all. We've had to delete a fair few posts for troll hunting, we're afraid. Please can we ask you to stop troll hunting and singling out particular posters?

Can you explain what you mean by troll hunting? And also, separately, ‘singling our particular posters’, as that’s not banned. You’ve removed 3 of my posts. I don’t think they come under troll hunting at all and I’m not impressed.

@LouMumsnet could you answer my above questions? I don’t think I was ‘troll hunting’, but if you don’t allow us to block annoying derailers but expect us to ignore and not have fun with their nonsense, you’re being incredibly unfair.