Daily Express

Cops must just stop shielding the eco-loons

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ITHINK we have a two-tier policing and justice system. And I’ll tell you why. Look at the way eco-zealots, Tik-Tok mischief-makers and people who make life hard for us are treated. Then compare it to the way the police respond when ordinary members of the public step in to stop the loons.

Drivers were trapped in tailbacks on three London bridges when some 45

Just Stop Oil protesters slowmarche­d across them.

But when an irate scaffolder allegedly shoved two of them out of the way, and grabbed their banners to try to let his mates through, he was tackled by several burly police officers. Those officers had, by the way, shown no inclinatio­n to move any of the protesters.

As angry drivers honked their horns, officers charged towards the man, who was heard shouting: “What the f*** are you doing?” You don’t have to look far for footage of officers enquiring after the health and well-being of activists.

What is going on? Did the police allow this to happen during the Coronation? No they did not and quite rightly so, so why are they allowing it to happen now?

The Yard repeated its call for the public not to confront anti-oil campaigner­s disrupting traffic. But what do they expect?

When they’re not lifting a finger, the increasing­ly fed-up public is going to get involved. I think that workman deserves a medal, not a police investigat­ion and potential criminal record. I’d love to have him on my radio show.

Compare this to Germany where police use hammers and chisels to remove activists who glue themselves to roads, then pick them up and carry them away. All done and dusted in minutes.

I’m not advocating violence, I’m not suggesting protesters get beaten up, but I am suggesting that, if the police aren’t going to move them out of the way, gently and carefully, they are going to be moved by us – the public.

Blocking the King’s Highway is an offence so why are the police (in London anyway) doing nothing about it?

Part two of this argument is the scumbag called Mizzy (inset below) a so-called TokTok “prankster” who thinks it’s funny to film himself entering uninvited into people’s houses, harassing girls at night and stealing an old lady’s dog in a park – then putting it on social media.

Piers Morgan rightly called 18-year-old Mizzy – real name Bacari-Bronze O’Garro from Hackney, East London – a moron on his talk show.

In court last week, O’Garro was given a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order and ordered to pay £365 in fines and costs. But it seems it was no deterrent, as he told Piers:

“UK laws are weak, simple as.” However, this time maybe not. On Saturday he was remanded in custody accused of three counts of breaching the behaviour order, including posting a video without the consent of the people featured.

But he’ll probably just revel in more publicity. For the rest of us, next time you get a speeding ticket, or a fine for accidental­ly parking where you shouldn’t have and the whole weight of the law drops on you like a five-ton anvil, remember the likes of Just Stop Oil and Mizzy and quietly weep.

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