On the day of the Coronation the Met Police arrested a number of protesters including several groups it has since, sort of, apologised too.
However it was clearly the source of a Mail on Sunday front page about how plans of protesters to disrupt the Coronation had been foiled.
The Met claims it had intelligence on the matter. Clearly there are specialist units involved with countering genuine terrorist attacks that do have a good knowledge. More generally though a force which seems constantly surprised by the numbers of racists,misogynists,racists, rapists and murderers in its ranks doesnt seem high on intelligence.
According to Sir Mark Rowley who heads the Met there was a ‘criminal network’ of protesters at work on Saturday (Times 10th May) he goes on to repeat the lie that rape alarms, handed out to vulnerable people in Westminster overnight by police approved wardens were going to be used to disrupt horses. In addition he claims there were plans to vandalise monuments and also repeats the lie that people had ‘possible lock on devices’
In short don’t ask the Met to predict a riot
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