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I do not identify as a member of far right. If anyone calls me that I'll feel really offended and I may press charges against them
🚨NEW: Iceland founder, Sir Malcolm Walker, has come out to say 'two-tier policing exists,' as he reveals police rushed to one of his stores 3-minutes after a phoney accusation of racism, but didn't attend when staff were seriously hurt or threatened with violence by shoplifters
Today is the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day
150 000 soldiers landed in the beaches of
Normandy with the support of 200 000 naval personnel.
5000 men lost their lives on the first day while storming the beaches.
Police may not always need to treat people of different racial origins equally, David Lammy has said.
The Justice Secretary suggested there could be cultural circumstances in which police officers might treat someone from an ethnic minority differently
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I'm very much reminded of harassment of Rabbi Deutsch in Leeds, who had to go into hiding with his family after Mothin Ali & others led a campaign against him. This is how anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism and should remind us of the dangers of letting authoritarians have power.
Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre
On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.
Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.
The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.
In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.
Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.
To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.