Heavy handed police action at Quaker Meeting House.

Seems OTT

Yes I do agree with stopping protests to cause disruption and think the group would have been better off organising a quiet march or protest within a park or some such place, befitting Quaker ideals rather than plotting in this way.We have enough trouble with the Stop Oil wallies.Mind you, seems they have stopped, probably prison sentences have made them think again.

Also remember we only have one side of the story here.

Have you got this wrong Oreo? The group were just having a quiet meeting. It was the police who used aggressive and destructive behaviour, breaking down the door and arresting those inside. The Quakers are condemning the police action, not that of the group.

Agree with Oreo , rarely do we have both sides

I don’t know Churchview why the police broke the door down, perhaps if they had stood there politely and rang the bell then nobody would have answered or the group , having a tip off would have split up and sat praying.🙏 Who knows?
Sometimes the police do seem to go in mob handed at times, they’re so used to low lives.

completely inappropriate.. this is a sacred space and they should not have defiled it. Why couldn't they wait til the group left..

Exactly, pascal30.

They are part of Youth Demand, who alongside Stop Oil sit under an organisation called Umbrella.
They have paint sprayed near the Cenotaph, the headquarters of the Labour Party and the MoD believing in direct action plus more.
One side of the story exactly Oreo

If it isn’t anything else, a meeting house is a place of peace.

Nandalot

Exactly, pascal30.

Agreed. Simple - presumably they have evidence, wait till they leave the space.

I believe the Quakers' account of what happened!

What crime were they committing having a meeting?

Very likely plotting disruptive acts, the police must have have insider knowledge of it.

Jesus himself spoke out against injustice. Jesus himself supported the cause of the despised and the rejected .

Quakers are very decent people. I would believe what they are saying. The right to protest is been reduced to practically nothing, which is seems to be o.k. with some people.
Unless it is farmers protesting of course, then they can block as many roads as they like with no consequences.

Jews are very decent people

What on earth do you mean by that Anniebach ? Please explain that remark.

The same as Quakers are very decent people. You disagree
Ilovecheese ?

All we know is that they were organising a protest about what is happening in Gaza, that does in not way mean they are planning an attack on Jewish people.

But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, the group has rented space we don't know if they were Quakers or some of them were or not.

When I was in a multilateral nuclear disarmament group decades ago we used to meet at a Friends Meeting house. They are very anti war. Some of us were convinced our phones were being tapped!

Oreo

Also remember we only have one side of the story here.

Yes.

Thank you Wyllow . Last year I spoke out against the police
officer who described a man as “openly Jewish” much defence from here , I find it frightening

Anniebach

Jews are very decent people

Really, its so sad this obsession.