Met oficers seen wearing divisive ‘thin blue line’ symbol at sensitive protests despite orders to remove them

Metropolitan police officers are openly defying orders not to wear badges appropriated by the far right and linked to white supremacy.

In July, the force’s chief, Mark Rowley, banned officers from wearing the “thin blue line” badge saying that in the US an equivalent symbol had been used by “hard-right groups”.

However, images have emerged of Met officers wearing the symbol late last month as they policed a stand-off between LGBTQ+ rights supporters and a rightwing group over a drag act’s performance at the Honor Oak pub in Lewisham, south London.

  • fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think ALL the cops are far right. But there are certainly enough fuckwit thugs behind the badge to make their social contract nul and void.

    • CobblerScholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’s the other half of the saying that they like to conveniently forget, one bad apple spoils the bunch. Sure there might be cops that generally show up do their job and go home without literally torturing people to death but if the first cop doesn’t do anything about it then they start to look just as bad

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It even goes beyond not doing anything about it: any cop that does try to do something about it gets Serpico’d or worse.