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Met Police Boss Sir Mark Rowley Grabs Microphone and Throws it On Ground When Grilled About “Two-Tier Policing”

by Will Jones
5 August 2024 6:17 PM

A visibly angry Met Police boss Sir Mark Rowley grabbed a reporter’s microphone and chucked it on the ground this morning when he was grilled about “two-tier policing”. The Mail has more.

As he exited the Cabinet Office, the visibly angry Scotland Yard chief was filmed being asked by a Sky News journalist: “Are we going to end two-tier policing sir?”

In the astonishing footage, Sir Mark was shown taking part of the microphone before throwing it to the floor as he headed towards a waiting car.

The bizarre incident came amid intense pressure on police chiefs to get a grip on the violent disorder causing chaos on U.K. streets, in the wake of last week’s Southport stabbing attack.

Sir Keir Starmer is also scrambling to put a lid on tensions and end the rioting in the first big test of his premiership since entering Downing Street a month ago.

After chairing an emergency Cobra meeting this morning, the Prime Minister pledged a “standing army” of specialist police officers to tackle what he has condemned as “far-Right thuggery”.

He and other senior ministers met with police chiefs and prison bosses in response to the continuing violence being waged by far-Right thugs. 

They updated on efforts to deploy officers to trouble hotspots, boost court capacity and tackle online criminality and misinformation as social media is used to whip up rioters.

“Two-tier policing” is a phrase used to described an impression that some protests and demonstrations are dealt with more harshly than others.

Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage earlier claimed the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 had left feelings of “two-tier policing”, although his remarks were dismissed by Tory former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel.

A narrative of ‘politicised’ or ‘two-tier policing’ has also been pushed by far-Right figures, including England Defence League founder Tommy Robinson.

The PM’s official spokesman said Sir Keir “wouldn’t recognise that characterisation of policing”.

“The job of the police is to keep everyone safe, to tackle violence and disorder no matter the origination,” the spokesman added. 

“There is no justification at all for the scenes we have seen. There is no justification for any sorts of criminal activity.

“The police will always will always carry out their job without fear or favour.”

Worth reading in full.

Erm, isn’t grabbing a microphone and throwing it on the floor criminal damage?

You just had to answer the question, Mark. No need to have a temper tantrum.

Tags: Keir StarmerMark RowleyMetropolitan PoliceNigel FarageRiotsSouthportTwo-Tier Policing

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago

Toby, you might mention to James that it seems likely that the primary role of the CIA in Turkish Earthquakes may have been in dreaming up and disseminating the crackpot ideas taken up by the Romanian lady MP and James himself as a false flag attempt to damage her, and his, credibility.

He might brush up on his knowledge of how earthquakes occur, with little doubt through tectonic plate movement, although even HMG and the UN has yet to declare that they “own The Settled Science” on seismology.

Without going on at great length, I should point out that his note about Tesla’s experimentation on resonant vibrations in buildings and structures, which he falsely blamed on “an earthquake” is pretty much the precise reverse of his nonsensical suggestion that a series of earthquakes on a known major fault line was triggered by a magic resonant vibration under the control of the CIA. (Whilst I would not dispute that the CIA might well do such a thing if it was feasible!)

He might also note that significant collapses of bridges had been caused by resonance of marching soldiers at least 50 years before Tesla, the cause of the collapse recognised (even if not entirely understood), and is the reason why soldiers are apparently told to ‘break step’ when crossing bridges today.

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7941MHKB
2 years ago

Gosh!

I made an awful mistake!

I do hope the super genius Leader of the Limp Dims, “Sir Potato” Ed Davey can forgive me!?!

Of course, Davey has a far better understanding of seismology than even the British Geological Survey. So he wisely imposed a limit of 0.1 Richter on Earthquakes caused by Fracking. That’s about the tremor you might experience if dropping an old telephone directory about a foot. Maybe. You’d need a well calibrated seismograph to measure it.

The Richter scale is logarithmic, so a tremor of 0.1, compared to the normal Richter measure of concern for mining, piling, quarrying, demolition work of 4.0, is 7,900 TIMES less energy. To match the most powerful recent quake in Turkey / Syria, you would need more than 50 million times as much energy as Davey’s limit. No wonder he boasted, whilst continuing to trouser £18,000 per year from a Solar Energy company for a few hours work, that he’d “effectively banned Fracking”.

Still, what’s 50 million of anything if it saves the good people of Lancashire the terrors of collapsing buildings? And leads us to yet more useless, eye wateringly expensive, unreliable energy?

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