
Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:
Instead of dedicating resources to finding and arresting actual terrorists, for instance the UK's many ultra-violent white supremacists and self-professed neo-Nazis, almost 500 people peacefully protesting holding pieces of paper and signs were dragged away on the grounds of promoting and/or engaging in terrorism, at enormous expense to tax payers and sanity itself.
According to the UK Police themselves, it was largest single day of arrests in at least a decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/palestine-action-arrests-london-largest-protest-ban