Birmingham’s police chief has appeared to acknowledge that law enforcement in the UK takes a “two-tiered” approach to different ethnicities, overturning denials by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
In response to the emergence of “Muslim” mobs in the UK as a response to “far-right” riots, Reports Police said on Monday that several people were carrying weapons in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham and appeared to acknowledge different standards depending on race as they sought to explain their failure to prevent the disorderly incident.
When asked why there was so little police presence at the time of the incident, Superintendent Emlyn Richards, of West Midlands Police, said: “We have very strong relationships with businesses and the local community and we recognised through intelligence gathering that there was the potential for protests to arise as a result of a false alarm, so we had the opportunity to meet with local leaders and business leaders prior to the incident to understand the style of policing we should undertake.”
“We knew there would be a lot of people at the counter protest and we knew who the majority of them would be. We had conversations about what that would look like.”
West Midlands Police are discussing the disturbances which began after misinformation spread online. A Sky News crew covering the disturbances in Birmingham was chased by a man wearing a balaclava and armed with a knife after going live on air. https://t.co/IRxFEabbZ6 pic.twitter.com/uiYkVX1TS5
— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 6, 2024
As for whether police would give similar discretion to right-wing groups such as the now-disbanded English Defence League, Mr Richards simply said: “We conducted policing action in response to the information we received at the time.”
Responding to West Midlands Police’s comments, Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice said: “The police chief has admitted he was complicit in allowing a masked mob to overrun the streets of Birmingham. An utter disgrace. Double politics. Double policing. Double care.”
Reform councillor Rupert Lowe added: “A remarkable interview about the Birmingham mob riots. ‘Policing from within’. Why does one group seem to be policed so differently to another? It’s clearly not working. Dual policing is rampant. This must change urgently.”
Birmingham tonight.
The pub is raided.
This is a show of force.
Police are not featured in these clips at all.
For some reason, the far right is being blamed.
The problem is them, not these people.
This is a frightening time for our country. pic.twitter.com/5zvRQMbfvy— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) August 5, 2024
Amid a lack of police presence in Birmingham, hundreds of young Muslim men took to the streets on Monday in response to false reports of a possible “far-right” rally in the area.
During the rally, several pedestrians and vehicles were attacked by masked, weapon-wielding youths, the BBC reported. report.
In the pub attack, a 51-year-old man, Sean McDonagh, was attacked and beaten by younger Muslim men, leaving him with a “lacerated liver”.
Some members of the Muslim community have apologized for the attack. To tell “It was not a true reflection of who we are as a community.”
Elon Musk criticises Starmer’s ‘two-tiered’ response to race riots, slams censorious UK governmenthttps://t.co/52fdfvwFZN
—Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 7, 2024
Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said: was suggested Anti-mass immigration rioters could face terrorism charges, which are far stricter than the standards applied to riots by the far left, Black Lives Matter or other ethnic groups in the country.
Despite this, Starmer has consistently tried to insist there is no “two-tier” system for policing different communities.
