Except when it's a father trying to have a 'protest picnic' with other parents after the council effectively tried to burst their kids' football.
I am not commenting on the council's rules and demands, that's a different issue, what I am commenting on, as the name of the blog implies is the actions of the police.
You often hear that the police aren't interested in clocking up easy arrests for nonsense crime, they want to help the community, blah blah blah, that it's just a myth that they'll always take the easiest 'detection' available etc, yet the simple fact remains that a sworn officer, granted the power of arrest, thought it was a good idea to arrest this man.
Nice work boys...
They accused him of threatening to cause criminal damage. I would be very interested to know the basis of that accusation.
ReplyDeleteI also find it interesting that the police chose to act at a protest picnic, during which one presumes this chap was quite within his rights to be in the park and using it lawfully.
There could be more to this than meets the eye, but on the face of it, I hope he's considering a complaint for wrongful arrest.
Martin