I can’t let this go unchallenged.
That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault.
The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.
The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence.
What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim.
The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier.
In my opinion Birmingham Police should drop the charges against this young man and ask the officer why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!
In recent weeks I have been glad to see multiple examples of these Facebook pages popping up on my X timeline. It is about time the public knew of the scourge of the "Mutual Exchange". It's no conspiracy theory that people are swapping their social homes - it's a formal process.
What is more, most of the public assume that the people in this sort of social housing are essential workers who need to live close by. I’ve met dozens of the tenants living in social housing in Pimlico - I had assumed they would be cleaners or overnight security guards working in Parliament or the like. In reality many didn’t work and I never met any who were this sort of essential worker who needed to be living nearby. They simply showed “links” to the area by e.g. having their kids at a nearby school, or were there by pot luck
A young graduate wanting to live in the same area must fork out £1,100 a month for a room in a five-bed house (w/ shared toilets), while disproportionately workless recipients of dubiously allocated housing lotteries get to squat in seven-bedroom houses at 70% of the cost.
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Maud Dromgoole, a playwright and theatre producer, served as a juror in the high-profile criminal damage trial involving activists from the now proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action. Here, she spoke in their defence outside Woolwich Crown Court before sentencing yesterday. We believe this conduct is illegal and constitutes contempt of court.
shut the fuck up marshall ya can’t both be number 1 it’s not even on keeper kit. absolute clown. if i saw you on street i would spit at the pair of you. sons going to grow up like a wet cunt like you.