From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 10/08/2025 10:15 PM, billy bookcase wrote: 
 > "The Todal"  wrote in message 
 > news:mfsc9uFs6deU3@mid.individual.net... 
 > 
 > 
 >> Yvette Cooper thanked police for their work handling Palestine rights 
 protests across 
 >> the UK on Saturday, saying there had been a "very small number of people 
 whose actions 
 >> crossed the line into criminality". 
 >> 
 >> unquote 
 >> 
 >> Which implies that many people were arrested for actions that didn't cross 
 the line 
 >> into criminality. 
 > 
 > Which also clearly indicates that the Home Secretary is quite willing to 
 > prejudge issues of criminality;  which formerly were the sole province of 
 > the Courts to decide 
  
 The police do have a bit of a role in it too. 
  
 The formal model is that only people who can reasonably be expected of 
 having committed an offence may be arrested. So an on the spot  judgment 
 is called for. 
  
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