Last weekend, the Met Police arrested just under 900 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters in Parliament Square as they demonstrated against the government’s Israel-driven terrorist ban on non-violent direct action group Palestine Action.

Those arrested were predominantly older or disabled people, or both, including Michael Higgins, a blind wheelchair user, and disabled RAF veteran Steve Masters.

Defend Our Juries: cops ignoring safety protocols

But Gerry Tasker, on site to film for Skwawkbox, caught police officers – vastly over-stretched by the Starmer regime’s decision to treat peaceful protesters against genocide and authoritarianism as terror supporters – ignoring safety protocols, and reminders from bystanders about the safety protocols they were ignoring, as they lifted a protester bodily from the ground to arrest them:

The Met tried to justify its officers actions by posting comments smearing Defend Our Juries as violent and abusive toward the police – a claim completely unsubstantiated by any evidence and one that journalists and observers on site have refuted. However, numerous peaceful protesters were injured and in at least one incident two officers brutally shoved bystanders backwards to the ground:

The danger of this kind of assault by police is clear from the case of Ian Tomlinson, who died after a similar unprovoked shove by a Met officer in 2009:

The refusal of police to listen to warnings about the protocol for safe lifting of protesters was scarcely less dangerous and could have left a peaceful anti-genocide demonstrator badly injured, paralysed or worse.

Featured image via the Canary