Brendan Behan thought the arrival of a policeman was one sure way to make a bad situation worse. It looks as if he was onto something in the case of the Golders Green stabbing of two Jewish men.
The video taken at the time shows a man who has been tasered lying on the ground, clearly helpless and maybe unconscious. The policeman first kicks him in the head and then stamps on his head.
Keir Sarmer, the champion of liberty, has been busy thinking up ways to make pro-Palestinian remarks illegal. He’s also in like a ferret up a drainpipe denouncing the leader of the Greens, because he posted the police attack on the man and suggested it wasn’t a good thing to do.
If Keir Starmer was a character from Alice in Wonderland, I’d understand his umbrage – words and actions mean what I say they mean and all that. Given that he’s the PM of Britain (until Burnham takes over) , shouldn’t he be denouncing police kicking of helpless civilians? When that sort of thing happened in the US, Black Lives Matter responded. In the UK, the sentiment seems to be ‘Support your local bobby, even when he’s using his Doc Martens to subdue an already subdued suspect.’
The man with the personality by-pass will no doubt be a household name in his own house this evening.
The maniac who had stabbed two innocent Jewish men had to be disarmed as quickly as possible. Once he was disarmed then he is under arrest. The video I saw was brutal. Why do some politicians think it is against the law to criticise the police? I just don’t get it.