{"id":120484,"date":"2023-10-23T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120484"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:49:09","slug":"met-chief-says-not-police-job-to-enforce-taste-and-decency-after-jihad-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/met-chief-says-not-police-job-to-enforce-taste-and-decency-after-jihad-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"Met chief says not police job to enforce taste and decency after jihad chant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Met\u2019s top cop has said his officers can only enforce the law and not “taste and decency” after outrage over a ‘jihad’ chant recorded during the massive pro-Palestine rally in London.<\/p>\n

Sir Mark Rowley added the “lines of law” which his officers follow may not be “quite in the right place” but that it was up to Parliament to decide were those lines to decide where those ‘lines were drawn’.<\/p>\n

More than 100,000 demonstrators took to London\u2019s streets on Saturday calling for an end to the war between Israel and Hamas sparked by the terror attacks on October 7.<\/p>\n

Placards depicting Israeli, British and American politicians as \u2018war criminals\u2019 and calling for a \u2018free Palestine\u2019 were on display in a largely peaceful march into Whitehall.<\/p>\n

But fringe elements were also heard singing the controversial \u2018from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u2019 chant, which effectively calls for an end to Israel. Video also emerged of protesters near the Egyptian Embassy calling for \u2018Muslim Armies\u2019 to free Palestine by attacking Israeli forces.<\/p>\n

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In one smaller filmed gathering a man standing to the side of a speaker, but neither on a platform nor speaking into the microphone, can then be heard chanting words including “jihad”, as can some others attending the protest.<\/p>\n

The word can mean struggle or effort, but it has also been taken to refer to holy war.<\/p>\n

The Met said that specialist Crown Prosecution Service lawyers had agreed no offence could be identified in the footage from the protest, which was held by the Hizb ut-Tahrir group.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Suella Braverman met Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark today, where she had been expected to ask officers to use \u201cthe full force of the law\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Sir Mark said police could only enforce the law and not “taste and decency”.<\/p>\n

He said: “We are absolutely ruthless in tackling anybody who puts their foot over the legal line. We’re accountable for the law. We can’t enforce taste or decency, but we can enforce the law.<\/p>\n

“The conversation finished really around the line of the law. It’s our job to enforce to that line. It’s Parliament’s job to draw that line. And the thought that maybe events at the moment, maybe some of the lines aren’t quite in the right place.”<\/p>\n

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