Just repeating myself. No idea why really.

Red and Blue Army!

I don’t often reply to you because, despite your politics being diametrically opposed to mine, you don’t indulge in spurious insults and express yourself with clarity and reason.

I must though take up you stating, as though it is a fact, that we have an “unbridled two-tier policing system”.

This is a claim now being promoted as the unchallengeable truth by many on the right, including here and by those rioting.

I don’t think it’s true at all. The police’s primary duty is to maintain public order and keep the peace. How any commander decides to do that it any operational situation will vary. There’s not a set of rules. Nor is there a duty to ensure every group or protest is handled in the same way. To maintain order may demand different strategies in different circumstances. Handling a group of beered up latter day football hooligans determined to confront them, and anyone they don’t like, will require a different approach to a group of sober, but passionate, activists protesting about almost any cause. Those who noisily demonstrate for causes like Palestine, climate change action or even to counter anti-immigration sentiments, are not so likely to be full of out of control drunks. They might get some elements that cause problems and create bad publicity but I suspect they are much easier to police and control.

It’s this that sets them apart. How will the police decide to best maintain public order. Do they need to adopt a softly softly approach or aggressive restraint?

Not a “two-tier” policy.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

It’s your memory that is faulty. That the dance party atrocity only happened last Monday makes that inexcusable.

We don’t know anything about why the accused did what he apparently did. All that exists are assumptions, many of which have been founded on misinformation.

The subsequent rioting makes no sense at all, other than as an excuse by boneheads inspired by internet rumours and encouragement to go and cause chaos,. They deserve all they will get.

The idea that we have been invaded is the kind of stupid nonsense that these nutcases use to try to justify their behaviour. Anyone spreading it is as culpable as they are.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Not that structural racism meant different standards of policing then.

Or is it systemic racism?