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Public Order Bill

Proceeding contribution from Eddie Hughes (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 March 2023. It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Order Bill.

The point that the hon. Gentleman has just made is incredibly important. In the circumstances that I was talking about previously, the lady was arrested in Birmingham and the police arrive to interrogate and subsequently arrest her. Given the other crimes that were going on in Birmingham at that time, it is important to see that the police had clearly determined that the most important thing they had to do at that particular time was not to deal with knife crime or with people stealing tools out of other people’s vans to stop them earning a living, but to arrest and interrogate a woman

who was silently praying outside a clinic that was closed. Surely that shows a sense of complete disproportionality on the part of the police.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
729 c224 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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