Yesterday marked one of the most shameful days in the history of the Metropolitan Police as they arrested peaceful protesters including a blind man in a wheelchair, an 81-year-old woman with Parkinson's, a former British army officer, and a bunch of, um, Quakers.
These are all arrests under section 13, which if charged can only be tried at a magistrate’s court. In my experience magistrates often say “this isn’t a court of ethics or morals, it’s a court of law. I just enforce the law” which is only a moral thing to say if you think that the system by which laws are decided is fair, which it clearly isn’t.
Also just saying “yeah I agree with and will enforce whatever the current czar says is right” is a crazily limp-dicked spineless belief to hold.
Nuremberg calling