Women’s rights’ activists win ‘David and Goliath’ fight over Sarah Everard vigil
Reclaim These Streets win a legal challenge against the Metropolitan police in a decision hailed a ‘victory for women.’
Reclaim These Streets win a legal challenge against the Metropolitan police in a decision hailed a ‘victory for women.’
‘We are glad to see the back of Cressida Dick. But there’s an incredible amount of work to do to reform the Metropolitan Police. The systematic racism, sexism, and homophobia must be called out and eradicated.’
‘There is no legal justification for stripping details from the report’
The Met’s intervention also means that Sue Gray will not publish her partygate report while the Met police investigate.
The Met says it’s statement from last week still stands. ie there is insufficient evidence to investigate
A police watchdog investigation found that failings in the case were not due to ethnicity.
Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer. Now new polling for LFF reveals widespread concerns over sexism in the police force.
The policewoman has been involved in a number of controversial cases including the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and Operation Midland.
“When is the Met going to take measures to ensure that a police officer isn’t a predator rather than giving women yet more advice on how to change their behaviour?”
Organisers allege they’ve faced raids, extreme bail conditions and ‘disproportionate force’.