WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter
More Palestine Protest Arrests
Dear HIP,
I fully support the views and actions expressed by C and by H in HIP 300.
What Keir Starmer and two Home Secretaries under this Labour Government have done is an affront to humanity and to justice and sends a clear message to Palestinians that their lives are worthless and to Israel to carry on slaughtering. Shabana Mahmood and Yvette Cooper are authoritarian, and I despise them. I will never vote Labour because of them and Starmer, and a lot of people I know feel the same way. I have written a letter of condemnation to Jo Shiner the Chief Constable of Sussex about the decision to allow heavy handed policing in Hastings and the decision by the local force to arrest here, whereas in Truro where there was a similar peaceful protest, no such arrests were made for exactly the same type of protest. Disgraceful. This is the same Hastings force who tasered and pepper sprayed a very elderly man in a home who had dementia and couldn’t walk. He was confused and bewildered and waved a butter knife. He died three weeks later in hospital. Do you trust a Police force capable of doing that and getting off lightly? Lots of people in this town were outraged by that and will be by this.
Rosie Brocklehurst Franczak
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