Some background on this footage. I think police swept in because they were desperate to get an arrest on camera. By this stage, several hours in, they’d arrested maybe 50 people. Unfortunately, they tackled her just as she’d finished telling me about her grandparents’ and

Charlie Kirk shouldn’t have been a victim of gun violence. Radicalised as a teen by a conservative death-cult, he spent his life trying to convince others that political violence was normal. Often for nothing more than clout. What a wasted life

RESULT -- After 11,000 votes, 95% of you would support the arrest of Isaac Herzog, who is believed to be now in Britain.

I guess it was smart of the Supreme Court to release its most racist decision since Plessy on the same day it was confirmed that Trump used his signature in the place of a vagina in his pedophile love letter/birthday card. I'll admit, I can't top that.

This retired nurse was one of three medical workers lying on the grass with their signs, holding hands and awaiting the police. After her two colleagues had been arrested, filmmaker @AmirAmirani and I spoke with her as police drew near

The full statement is here. And I don’t suggest the failure to fully distinguish the sign holders from other aspect of the protest was deliberate

But ultimately, the source of this violence is Yvette Cooper’s proscription, which bans people from expressing support for a group that seemed to them to at least be doing something during a genocide. People aren’t stupid, and they don’t like being treated like they are. The

No-one denies this is a difficult policing operation for the @metpoliceuk . And yes, people get very upset when they see peaceful older people, disabled people, NHS workers and ordinary folk of all kind getting dragged away for basically holding a sign and signing ‘we shall

But I did not see a single person protesting the arrest by holding a sign saying ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’ resist arrest. Those now most closely associated with PA, both at this protest and previous ones I’ve reported on, have peacefully broken a law their

Of course, linking Palestine Action with violence has been a key part of Yvette Cooper’s possibly spurious and merely suggestive defence of her proscription of the group ahead of November’s Judicial Review of her decision

In her statement, I think that Deputy Assistant Commissioner Claire Smart gives a false impression by conflating the sign-holders with protestors outside the square. And that matters, because it falsely links those who broke the law and expressed support for Palestine Action with

At the same time, a crowd had been building outside the square. I couldn’t see what was happening there, but the police formed a cordon and erected barricades to prevent them entering the square during the arrests, as you can see here, shot at 6.40pm. That’s where there were

With the crowd of sign holders significantly thinned, arrests began to be made more rapidly around 6pm, with police returning to the usual tactics of deploying 6 officers per arrest

The intensified tactic involving large groups of police seemed, to me, intended to scare protestors away. Like the hours of waiting around, it was used by the police to reduce the number of arrests. Why? Because they clearly weren’t able to fully enforce the law

Yes, there were people in the square who were shouting ‘shame’ at the police when they arrested veterans in wheelchairs and retired medical workers. But I saw, at most, only a couple of scuffles in Parliament square, and they didn’t involve those holding signs.

By 5pm, many had left, to catch trains or whatever. That’s when police tactics changed. Groups of twelve or more would charge into the square and make an arrest. There was a lot of belligerence. One officer shoved me so hard, another one had to come and apologise

Around 1,500 people peacefully broke the law at 1pm. By 4pm the police had made around 50 arrests. They were clearly hoping that the protestors would simply leave. As one woman said in passing several hours in ‘What do have to do to get arrested around here?’

The media is, as usual, doing a bad job of reporting on yesterday’s protest in Parliament Square. And, in my view, as someone who spent 8.5 hours at the protest reporting for @novaramedia, the @metpoliceuk have dangerously misrepresented what happened. A visual 🧵

Parliament Square at 6.40pm. A right mess. More arrests being made but plenty of protestors have been able to leave. Hope you’re watching @ShabanaMahmood - you didn’t do this, but could be your legacy

In Parliament square, 20-strong squadrons of police are ostentatiously arresting one pensioner lying on the ground at a time. There clearly isn’t the force here to arrest everyone, so an attempt to scare people home?