Metropolitan Police and Fire Brigade unions clash over policing of Sarah Everard vigil

The Metropolitan Police Federation and the Fire Brigade’s Union have clashed over the policing of Saturday’s vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham Common.

In a tweet posted on Sunday which has since been deleted, the Fire Brigades Union’s nationwide account mentioned: “We completely condemn the violence meted out by the Metropolitan Police final night time on Clapham Common.

“These grotesque shows don’t have any place in our society. We despatched solidarity to the household and buddies of Sarah Everard and all those that need to finish violence towards girls and women.”

The tweet included an image of a extra detailed assertion from the Fire Brigades Union National Women’s Committee which supplied additional criticism of the police ’s actions at Saturday’s vigil.

It mentioned the Women’s Committee stood in solidarity with the ladies “who have been manhandled, pushed to the bottom, separated from their buddies and arrested.”

“These draconian and authoritative actions don’t have any place in a democratic society,” it mentioned.

A now deleted Tweet from the Fire Brigades Union concerning the policing of the Sarah Everard vigil

It went on to name for these answerable for the choices made on the vigil to be held to account, saying the dealing with of the occasion was a “clear demonstration of the patriarchy’s incapacity to grasp male violence towards girls and women.”

The assertion added that “permitting the police to guide the response and set the extent of restriction to peaceable protest can be a catastrophic mistake.”

The tweet provoked an indignant response from the Metropolitan Police Federation, the physique representing cops in London, which tweeted: “These are appalling phrases from Emergency Services colleagues.

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“Police and firefighters usually work aspect by aspect in testing environments – they need to be exhibiting solidarity. For the FBU to make such a sweeping assertion with out being conscious of the information, is embarrassingly out of contact.”

In a subsequent assertion to MyLondon, the Federation added that “Many [FBU] members rightly confirmed outrage at what they posted. It is simply proper that it has been deleted.”

The police have come beneath important criticism for the dealing with of Saturday’s vigil which developed right into a protest.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan demanded an pressing clarification for the ‘unacceptable’ response from police on the Sarah Everard vigil.

In the aftermath of the occasion, many accused the Met of ‘shaming Britain’ and known as for Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick’s resignation.

The Fire Brigades Union has been contacted for remark.

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