The Home Secretary of the UK wrote an interesting commentary for The Times. It’s interesting because the Home Secretary is the senior minister in charge of law enforcement, national security and immigration. The security service, MI5, reports to Suella Braverman.
Her commentary addresses how law enforcement handles protests in the UK, but the essential problem occurs in the US as well.
Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law? I have spoken to serving and former police officers who have noted this double standard.
Except for the spelling of “behavior”, that paragraph could have come from anyone in America paying attention to how some cities handle disruptive protests.
It took two days for articles like this started running in major UK newspapers.
The only difference between the US and the UK, is that in the US, the head of the DOJ would not write a frank commentary like this. Our DOJ has become a partisan weapon.
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