Blimey, Sidney, you don't have to look all the way across the Pond. There's a better option much closer to home, after all:
The Met Police's chief has claimed that the special constable who told off a Christian busker for singing 'church songs' on Oxford Street was trying to 'do her best', but made a mistake.
Rowley, 59, told BBC Radio London: 'She’s a volunteer doing her best who made a mistake.
''We had a special constable who was on patrol and because of complaints about busking decided she would deal with the case and she didn’t deal with it perfectly well – it was a woman singing some sort of religious songs – and we’re dealing with that as a management issue and we have said we got that slightly wrong.'
The utter contempt for the public who pay this uniformed weasel's wages by referring to Harmonie London (a popular and well-known figure on the street) as 'a woman singing some sort of religious songs' is utterly breathtaking. But hardly surprising.
He effortlessly pivots to the attack and claims victimhood on behalf of his Karen-with-a-badge:
He said he was disappointed to see that Hadzhipetkova had received a wash of racist abuse following the incident, which took place on Sunday.
'She has had massive racist abuse online, she has had all sorts of vitriol. Now that doesn’t help policing in London.
It might, if it curbs this ignorant power-drunk bitch in any future interactions with the public, and teaches her that her actions are scrutinised and will draw consequences.
'People behaving like that to me, I’m paid for it, I’ve stepped into a senior role. Someone who’s just out there a couple of days a week trying to help out her community who gets that vileness, that’s a real, real problem.
'That’s tough for my men and women on the frontline having to cope with that sort of thing day in, day out.'
I'm glad you mentioned 'your men and women on the frontline', 'Sir' Rowley. Because this wasn't a case of one ignorant volunteer making a mistake, there were four other officers with her - presumably at least one or two were real cops.
Yet not one stepped in to defuse the situation, apologise for her mistake and reassure Ms London that she was perfectly well entitled to be there. Why is that? Are they all cut from the same cloth? It would explain a lot.
