If I hear the “Police are institutionally racist” one more time today, I think I’m gonna scream

Right, I get off the bus today and see two cops with a young black man who they need to speak to.

Enter, stage left, (exiting the bus just like me) two black men and a woman who may have been their mother.

Mom said, “they’re looking for a black man”

One of the men said, “I thought they were coming after me”.

I turned around and said, “ohh, what a relief, I thought they were after me”.

Unimpressed, the trio turned around to approach the police who were having an unremarkable chat with the young man. I’m sure it’s always helpful to have the uninformed question your every move as you try to do your job.

That brings me to this little gem

A Metropolitan police officer was found not guilty today of racially abusing two teenagers.

PC Mark Jones, 42, a member of the force’s Territorial Support Group, was accused of subjecting the youths to a physical and verbal attack while on patrol in a marked police van in west London in June 2007.

It was alleged that during the incident he accused one 16-year-old Kuwaiti of “robbing people while British soldiers are getting killed in Iraq”.

But Jones denied any wrongdoing in connection with the incident and the jury of five men and seven women at Kingston crown court cleared him of two charges of racially aggravated common assault following the three-week trial.

Jones and four colleagues, PC Neil Brown, 33, Sergeant William Wilson, 52, PC Steven White, 31, and PC Giles Kitchener, 31, who stood trial alongside him, were also found not guilty of misfeasance in public office.

The jury spent five hours deliberating before clearing all the officers.

None of the officers showed any emotion as the verdicts were read out.

During the trial, the court heard the officer was travelling with colleagues from London’s Paddington Green police station to patrol Lambeth during the evening rush hour when officers spotted a group of youths allegedly mouthing obscenities at them.

When they came to a stop, three teenagers were allegedly taken into the van one by one and subjected to taunts.

“Whistle blower” PC Amechi Onwugbonu, who had been in the van, gave evidence against Jones during the trial.

He said the officer swore at one teenager, Omar Mohidin, who was 16 at the time, before kicking him off the carrier.

He accused him of walking over another youth, Ahmed Hegazy, when he lay handcuffed on the floor of the vehicle.

He said a third teenager, Basil Khan, was brought onto the van before he was sworn at, punched, kneed and slapped in the face.

But Jones consistently denied acting in an unprofessional manner and PC Onwugbonu later admitted that he and Jones were “not best buddies”.

To PC Onwugbonu and the three jackasses at the bus stop today, I salute you for doing your bit to foster good race relations with your utterly spurious accusations.

I suggest the Metropolitan Police kit every officer with a San Jose “ear video camera” and bring an end to this bullshit.

To Be A Gay Man In Hackney These Days

Maybe isn’t as bad as being a lesbian in South Africa – where “raping women straight” appears to be the accepted view -

But you’re likely to get your ass kicked outside the George & Dragon.

The Guardian reports:

We’re in the midst of a new wave of anti-gay hate crimes.

No shit. Hummm, and who might the perpetrators be?

Internet chatter has increasingly discussed that such increases in homophobic hate crime is the result of the failure of multi-cultural policies to address the widening gulf between the views of new citizens from countries where homosexuality is seen as morally wrong and those UK citizens who don’t. Comments posted invariably state that most perpetrators of homophobia have been either of black or Asian origin. Many site the growth of Islam and religious fundamentalism as being a catalyst for such problems.
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Once again, I thank Labour for their cultural relativism – my rights (erm, the right to walk down the street minding my own business without getting my head kicked in) have been sold down the river to pander to other cultural points of view.

Come on, Guardian. It’s time to tell the whole truth.

And for all you squriming relativists – here is an excellent op-ed by Antonia Senior:

The logical flaws are also obvious. Take female genital mutilation. I think it is an abhorrent, evil crime. Yet the woman slicing out the clitoris of a child with a rusty knife thinks she is doing the right thing. Clearly, one of us is absolutely right and one of us is deluded. If your culture believes in genital mutilation and mine does not, then my culture is right and good and yours is wrong and bad.

This is an argument made persuasively by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch MP and political activist. Ali argues that Western feminists retreat into silence when faced with the subjugation of their Islamic sisters, hobbled by their unwillingness to criticise other cultures.

Sing it, sister.

A Party Political Announcement

Sorry – but there is only one way to stop the Hackney Labour insanity – and that’s to vote them out of office.

Missing Cat Alert

tabster

Faithful readers of this blog will remember when Tabster first arrived on the scene earlier this year.

Our neighbours took Tabs to the vet, got him neutered and up to date with his shots and made him part of their family. He is a much loved cat and everyone in the block misses the guy.

Please, if you do see him – leave me a message.

NB

My neighbour confirms she had Tabster chipped.

NBB (23 September)

Tabs was found by another neighbour last week nearby. The very kind man saw me today told me how he found Tabs and where he laid him to rest.  He didn’t realise, as there are lots of cats ’round here.

My neighbour and I suspected the big guy might have died, but we are still sad to have it confirmed.  RIP Tabs.

NBBB (24 September)

Here, I’ve got a question for you: who buries someone else’s cat? I was thinking today – that’s something I’d never do. I’d call the council or the RSPCA, I’d put signs up saying “Found: Tabby cat, please ring 555-1212″ and I’d probably knock on some doors, but I just don’t see myself burying a random cat. Hey, this is Stoke Newington, not a farm.

Call me an old cynic, but other things don’t stack up either.

Tags Stay – Banksy Goes

12-09-09_1618 I guess the Sheriff of Tombstone and his crack graffiti busters missed this small tag-ette on the gates of Abney Park Cemetary on Stoke Newington High Street.

What planet are Hackney Council on? If I were gunning for Banksy, I’d at least try not to make it so obvious and scrub off some of the tags on public property while I was at it. I’ll let that be a lesson – never underestimate how dumb Hackney Nu-labour can be.

Alright kids, you know the drill:

Margarito Casillas

As part of the 2996 Project, this year it is my honour to pay tribute to Margarito Casillas who was killed on September 11 2001.

I haven’t been able to find out much about Margarito’s life – other than he was from Guadalajara, Mexico, a maintenance worker at the World Trade Center and there are conflicting reports that he was either 54 or 63 when he was killed. I wish I knew more.

On this terrible anniversary, I still remember Alan Beavan of Gray’s Inn, Diarelia Jovannah Mena and Tony Blair’s reading from Thornton Wilder’s, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”

I will never forget the lady in the dust, Marcy Borders, and hope she’s ok.

NB

I would like to express my gratitude the gentlemen in this video for their cultural sensitivity for it being 9/11 today.

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Hackney Council v Banksy

What is it with Hackney Council? How long did the geniuses spend planning their latest shower of incompetence…

This is what the Banksy looked like yesterday. In fact, that’s what it’s looked like for years.

Then this morning, our friends from Hackney, the people who know what’s best for us all, did this…

wall

I did have a short conversation with one of these guys…

grafsol

The poor man had tears in his eyes.

“We knew it was a Banksy, love. It’s a Stoke Newington landmark; we know that. We told them, but they wouldn’t listen”.

Here’s what gets me. The wall that the Banksy was/is on is PRIVATE PROPERTY. The OWNER of the property was outside pleading with the Council officer to stop the insanity.

I wouldn’t wish to speculate, but I wonder how much that Banksy was worth? I wonder it there is a civil case that could be brought by the owner against the Council for the loss?

Hell, I wonder if the owner could bring a complaint to the Police against Hackney Council for criminal damage?

Hey Kids, never mind! It was a “mistake”

Your thoughts?

You’re Not Welcome In The Borough, Dude

timlarkin

Thanks to the Hackney Gazette for letting us know what Hackney Labour are doing to keep Tim Larkin, a self-defence guru out of this borough:

Cllr Patrick Vernon, of Queensbridge ward, said Larkin was not welcome in the borough.

He said: “This training simply glorifies violence and is purely a money-making exercise targeting vulnerable people or exacerbating fragile relationships with the gangs and postcode turf wars locally.”

Darell Philip, a communications officer with the Hackney Seventh Day Adventist Church in Haggerston Road, said: “This training provides no solutions to the root cause of violence, but just puts young people’s lives at more risk.

” “Our message was that they should put down the guns and knives and treasure their life and their community. How can this be achieved by promoting combat violence techniques?”

Larkin, from Las Vegas, California, has more than 20 years’ experience training members of the US Navy Seals, FBI and US marshals.

Erm, while Cllr Patrick Vernon is playing Sheriff of Tombstone, perhaps he’ll have a word with the gauntlet of scrotes on the High Street and outside Nandos and tell them to clear off as well.

And to Darell Philip, “a communications officer with the Hackney Seventh Day Adventist Church in Haggerston Road”, I don’t think I’d have the luxury of  giving much thought to the “root causes of crime” if someone had their hand around my throat and was going to rape me; I’d like to know how to save my life and get out of the situation.

What would Patrick Vernon and Darell like me to do – roll over and die?

Don’t answer that.

oh shit – better ban these guys too.

Rock On, Sister

rock on I’m keeping up with the peoples’ fight against the Iranian theo-fascists on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish

Wednesday’s Hero

mohammad_sohail While having no connection to Stoke Newington I am aware of, I nevertheless am moved to give major props to Mohammad Sohail of Long Island, New York.

And what has Mohammad done to warrant a mention in Dispatches on this side of the pond?

In an amazing act of compassion and forgiveness, bodega owner Mohammad “Mo” Sohail first disarmed a would-be assailant who came into his Shirley shop — and then gave him $40 and a loaf of bread.

Peace through strength. Way to go, Mo.