Follow up to arrests at Leeds Speakers Corner

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twitter.com/LesleySemmens/status/1323593206290878466?s=19

Well, @WestYorksPolice have decided that the arrests and fixed penalty notices were issued in error. It was just a ruse to shut down the Speakers Corner event in Leeds.
#WarOnWomen
Letters sent to one of the women given a FPN!! t.co/nHe2BDlh3R

What a complete disgrace West York's police are. They've gone rogue and are pursuing a personal vendetta in my view.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4028651-Kelly-Jay-currently-being-arrested-in-Leeds

This thread is closed now so I can't add to it.

Remember this was a preplanned operation by the police. They knew about the protest and were there to disrupt it.

How completely unexpected.

Remember this was a preplanned operation by the police. They knew about the protest and were there to disrupt it.

So they are now admitting that something they planned in advance was actually an error?

So they are now admitting that something they planned in advance was actually an error?

No, they are now admitting that their actions would not stand up in court as there was absolutely no legal basis for them.

I'm reeling.

No consequences for that nasty, angry policeman I suppose? His aggression in the videos was quite something.

I think there is a lot of cases of these fixed penalty notices being liberally applied, yet suddenly the offense is non existant if the person, instead of paying, decided to 'take it to court'. Has happened to a few frieds of mine over school holidays. Seem happy to bully people into paying cash, yet less happy to actually state the case in court oddly.

This case was ridiculous though, as usual when women have tried gathering without the presence of males, to talk about things some males want them to shut up about.

What a shower.
Are they under any obligation to explain their 'error'?
I also wonder if there is no error, but they don't want to go to court. There is unlikely to be any gain whatsoever for the Police in pursuing this but would give lots of publicity to PP.

@Aesopfable

So they are now admitting that something they planned in advance was actually an error?

No, they are now admitting that their actions would not stand up in court as there was absolutely no legal basis for them.

Yup. Important distinction.

I expect they expected the women to just politely pay up and go home, then thats the consequence for ignoring the wants of some males. Unfortunately, it didn't quite go that way.

I suspect, given their job, they might possibly have known that it would not stand up in court to start with, though thats venturing into conspiracy now