by Julian Mann, The Daily Sceptic
The Metropolitan Police has so far not commented on the viral video of a female police officer defending freedom of speech surrounded by a crowd of angry Muslim men in Whitechapel but it has questions to answer.
The Mail ran the video yesterday.
This is the moment a police officer defends a Christian preacher in Whitechapel and is told: “This is a Muslim area.”
The confrontation sees a female Met Police officer being surrounded by males and telling them: “In this country, we have freedom of speech.”
She continued: “I understand that you guys don’t want to hear it, so I would just recommend that you walk away and don’t listen to him. He’s not in your home.”Questions for the Met include: why is it that this police officer understands English law in a way that the three Met police officers who arrested Christian street preacher, John Sherwood, in Uxbridge in 2021 apparently did not?
In 2022, Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court acquitted Pastor Sherwood of the public order offence with which the Crown Prosecution Service had charged him. The court upheld his freedom “to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority” as set out in Article 10 of the 1998 Human Rights Act.
Christian Today reported on the case at the time:
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