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London, everyone is calling for the resignation of Cressida Dick, head of Scotland Yard

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LONDON – The police increasingly in the dock. This is the verdict of the political world, the British newspapers and public opinion, after two events that shocked Great Britain: a week ago the kidnapping and murder of a young woman, Sarah Everardby a policeman from the elite forces responsible for the protection of the government and embassies; followed, last night, by the excessive reaction of the police to the wake, unauthorized due to the restrictions imposed by Covid, held to commemorate Sarah’s death and “return to the streets” from male violence, with hundreds of women arrested, beaten up and charged by agents in a London park. Virtually all parties are now demanding the resignation of Cressida Dick, the head of Scotland Yard, in bitter irony, the first woman to lead the London Metropolitan Police, as well as representing a diversification of men and women in uniform as a lesbian.

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by Enrico Franceschini


“She has lost the trust of millions of women across the UK and should leave,” says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davies. “The images of Saturday night’s incidents in the capital are worrying, we expect a full report from Scotland Yard to explain how such a thing happened,” says Interior Minister and senior conservative Priti Patel bluntly. “Unacceptable scenes”, echoes the Labor Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, adding that he expects “an urgent explanation” from Cressida Dick: “The police have a responsibility to enforce the social distancing laws necessary for the pandemic, but from the photos we have seen it is clear that the reaction of the police is not was neither appropriate nor proportionate ”. On the same tone Keir Starmer, Labor leader: “The scenes we saw in Clapham Common,” the park on which Sarah was last framed by a CCTV camera and where the wake took place, “are deeply disturbing. The women who came to commemorate it should have been able to do it peacefully. I share their anger at the way they were treated. This was not the right method to ensure order and security during such a protest ”.

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The deputy of the Tories Caroline Nokies, who chairs the Women and Equality Commission of the House of Commons on behalf of the governing majority of Boris Johnson, agrees: “I’m really shocked. In this country, order is enforced by consent, not by trampling the homage to a murdered woman and throwing other women to the ground. The police made a serious mistake ”. Although his Labor colleague Jesse Philips says that “Cressida Dick can resign or stay, but this will not be enough to solve the problem of abuse against women”, it seems difficult that the head of Scotland Yard, already involved in the past in another controversial story (when policemen at his orders accidentally killed an innocent young Brazilian in the subway, mistaking him for an Islamic terrorist, in the aftermath of the kamikaze attacks in London in 2005), can keep his post.

The Deputy Chief of Scotland Yard, another woman, Helen Ball, tries to defend the work of the agents by claiming that hundreds of women were close to each other and represented a threat of Covid contagion: “We did not want to act by force, but we were forced to protect the safety of the people, it was the responsible thing to do “. A press release from Sisters Uncut, one of the organizations that organized the vigil, however, gives a different version of the agents’ behavior: “Male policemen waited for the sun to go down to begin tugging and handcuffing the women who came to the demonstration”. A few hours earlier, after a High Court judge had banned the event on the grounds of the lockdown, another association promoting the protest, Reclaim These Street, had canceled it, however accusing the public force of having refused to dialogue to find a way to commemorate Sarah without endangering the health of citizens, for example by agreeing the necessary social distance. Alternatively, the association invited men and women to light a candle on their doorstep, as did Prime Minister Johnson on the Downing Street gate.

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But hundreds of women still spontaneously went to Clapham Junction to express condolences for Sarah and to protest the violence against women. The rules against the coronavirus, moreover, do not prohibit leaving the house for a walk and each of them could claim to have gone to the park alone or with a friend – the limit for gatherings is in fact two people. And in the park, just before the accidents broke out at sunset, she also went there Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, second in line for the throne, depositing – without a mask on her face – a bouquet of flowers in memory of Sarah. “I know too,” said Kate, “what a woman feels when she comes home alone in the evening.”

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