I wonder if this had been a man ?

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Women "mistakenly" arrested and held for 13 hours by numbskull police armed with shiny "new powers" to disarm women at will

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65567316

Is my suspicion that this wouldn't have happened to a man well founded ?

I remember it was a female reporter that got arrested covering a protest a few months back.

They also arrested dozens of others just before the coronation and they were mostly men. She gets her own news article because she wasn’t protesting and she is a woman.

So how many other non protesting men were arrested ?

Yeah, obviously the fact that she WASNT a protester makes it genuinely more newsworthy (and ironic). But actually in this case I think it could easily have been a man affected. It does seem that when it comes to visiting peoples houses etc for bad words/complaints against them women are maybe seen as a softer target (maybe misogyny, maybe because they are more likely to cooperate/apologise) but there have been plenty of cases of men and women unfairly targeted during street protests to make this automatically a sexism thing.

She was mistaken for a protester as the Just Stop Oil protesters were clumped around her. There were 64 arrests. I’m sure she wasn’t the only mistaken for a protester/denying they were protesting.

Night Stars volunteers handing out free rape alarms on the streets of London were also arrested in the early hours before the coronation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65516825

You are talking out of your arse OP.

The most bizarre element of this is that the Met is saying the arrest was made by a member of the Lincolnshire police who were drafted in to help out, and so the Met are saying they have forwarded the complaint to them!!!

I very much doubt it was police from Lincolnshire who were in charge at whatever police stationt she was held, and questioned.

I mean it’s bang on brand for the Met isn’t it?

@Naunet bang on brand - but on this occasion more likely them showing their incompetent side rather than their misogynistic side...

They weren’t incompetent - they had an instruction from somewhere to make sure the two groups of protestors were kept as invisible as possible, (by any means necessary), and they achieved their aim.

Immoral; yes. Anti-democratic; yes. Possibly illegal; yes. But incompetent, in this instance, no.

Which makes a change for our glorious boys in blue. Policing by consent is a long dead concept.