Shocking moment police officer threatens to ARREST man for ‘breaching the peace’ simply by being ‘quite openly Jewish’ near pro-Palestine march in London
by Arthur Parashar, Daily Mail:
The Metropolitan Police has been branded ‘beyond appalling’ after an officer threatened to arrest a Jewish man trying to cross the road at a pro-Palestine march because his ‘presence was antagonising’.
The man, who said he trying to walk around the capital after going to a synagogue, was pulled aside by a police officer who said he was ‘breaching the peace’ because he was ‘quite openly Jewish’.
In a video shared by Campaign Against Antisemitism from Saturday’s march, the man – who was wearing a kippah on his head – tells the officer: ‘I don’t want to stay here, I want to leave.’
The officer then replies: ‘In that case sir, when the crowd is gone I will happily escort you out.’
After the defiant man attempts to walk across the road in the Aldwych area, the officer blocks him and says: ‘I don’t want anybody antagonising anybody… and at the moment sir, you are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march.
‘I am not accusing you of anything but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.’
Later on in the video, another officer says: ‘There’s a unit of people here now. You will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want freely or if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of peace, with all these other people, you will be arrested.’
He clarifies: ‘Your presence here is antagonising a large group of people that we can’t deal with all of them if they attack you… because your presence is antagonising them.’
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