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Home Secretary Priti Patel today slammed 'utterly vile' scenes in Brixton last night that saw the Met Police overpowered and forced to flee after a mob screaming 'run them out' injured 22 officers and smashed up a patrol car as a 'block party' descended into chaos. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8458273/Reveller-smashes-police-car-fight-street-Brixton-block-party.html Some of the footage is horrendous akin to the disorder in 2011 but on a smaller scale

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A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth after thousands of people descended on the area's beaches as temperatures soared. https://news.sky.com/story/major-incident-declared-in-bournemouth-as-thousands-of-people-flock-to-beaches-12014686

Man paralysed in Taser fall says race made him a target By June KellyHome affairs correspondent, BBC News Image copyrightHANDOUT A 24-year-old man who was paralysed after being Tasered by police last month has told the BBC he believes he was targeted because he is black. Jordan Walker-Brown fell from a wall while being pursued by two officers. A Metropolitan Police officer is under criminal investigation by the police watchdog over the incident in London. It will examine what role ethnicity played in decisions that day amid concerns about the disproportionate use of Tasers on black men. Should all fro…

Scotland Yard’s former top female Asian officer is suing the force in a £500,000 racism claim, saying she was told to keep quiet about a swastika at her police station. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8457049/amp/Top-female-Asian-police-officer-launches-500k-racism-lawsuit-against-Scotland-Yard.html

A port worker who was caught in possession of cocaine as he left work has been jailed for nearly seven years following a National Crime Agency investigation. Ben Whitby, 30, from Grimsby was pulled over by officers from Humberside Police, who were working with the NCA, as he drove away from Killingholme Port in north Lincolnshire on 18 February. On the back seat of his BMW car officers found a black rucksack containing around 2.25 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated potential street value of £178,000. In the glove box they found £3,000 cash. Whitby was employed as a tug driver at the port and was unaware that he was under surveillance by NCA investigators, who earlie…

A man from Southgate has been jailed for 7 and a half years following a motorway chase and the seizure of cocaine worth up to £400,000. Arian Aliaj, 36, from Freshfields Drive, Southgate, London, failed to stop for police whilst driving on the M1 near Junction 15 on 22 March. Officers later found the vehicle, an Audi A6, abandoned near Rugby with three kilograms of cocaine lying nearby and one kilogram in the boot of the car. Later the same day, investigators from the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership arrested Aliaj when they stopped a black BMW travelling on a M40 slip road at junction 9. When officers searched his ho…

A UK police officer is under investigation by the police watchdog over the sharing of an offensive meme of George Floyd in a private social media chat group that included other officers. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/22/devon-and-cornwall-police-officer-investigated-over-george-floyd-meme

Reports of at least 3 stabbed. Not much detail on the media outlets yet

Police forces are dumbing down education standards in a desperate bid to meet Boris Johnson’s pledge to recruit 20,000 extra officers, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8443659/Police-dumb-entry-standards-meet-Boris-Johnsons-pledge-recruit-20-000-officers.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top

Large crowds are expected at anti-racism protests in London this weekend, with police urging demonstrators to discourage violence and to socially distance. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/black-lives-matter-police-ready-for-large-crowds-at-london-anti-racism-protests-12010690