A Parliamentary report claiming that there was no evidence of “two-tier policing” in response to last year’s protests and riots over the Southport child murders has been blasted as “absurd” by commentators.
On Monday, the Home Affairs Committee in the House of Commons published a report which asserted that the police response to the unrest following the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance party by a Rwandan-heritage teenager was proportionate and did not demonstrate police bias.
The anger over the mass stabbing resulted in 246 protests and counter-protests across the UK, the report found, 88 of which were found to be “significant”. To date, there have been 1,804 arrests and 1,072 charges over the riots, including some for merely posting on
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