Trying To Get Cops To Answer Straight Questions, Palestine ‘Office Stormers’, March & Dirty East End

On my wander around Glasgow I came across the Palestinian protest march to the Emirates Arena in the City’s East End. I talk to Police Scotland PCs asking them how seriously certain complaints are taken, but they just won’t be drawn to an answer. I also ask other Police Constables about the allegations some of the pro-Palestine chants are antisemitic, but cops say they aren’t. I spoke to the Palestinian protestors accused of storming a Member of the Scottish Parliament’s office in Glasgow last week

I followed the march to the Emirates, the further east of the city we went the dirtier it got.

I got a copyright notice for music playing in the background, hence the reason the volume cuts for around 2 minutes. Apologies.

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See so I’m not sure the way in whats of police present the reason being I think there’s lots of police is there is this marched today in Rangers football club are playing at I Brooks in Glasgow and there seems to be a division around Israel Palestine conflict in

Glasgow if you support Celtic you support the Palestinian cause I know that’s a stereotype but that’s a perceived stereotype if you support on the wrong end if you support um angels and you are supporting Israel and the conflict that’s a belief obviously there’s differences um on the wrong end I walk

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Seeing us a match every week does it go different places sometimes it’s at the BC sometimes it’s in Edinburgh how do you know how do you you just it’s just a the right thing as a human being to do is for Humanity isn’t end of the day all human we’re all

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Question see see if a police officer writes a report to proc offal and it’s it says things s of lies and you complain about that is that treated as a serious offense what do you mean if you don’t agree with what’s been WR yeah but if you have evidence it shows the contrary

Like if you that’s that’s the purpose that’s the role of the court to assess the report that’s made and the evidence that supports it or doesn’t support it yeah well but the thing is it the case get dropped right and basically a guy flying a drone they said it was

Unfavorable weather conditions but it recorded everything and it showed it was a lovely day and the police send a report to the procur F said was unfavorable weather condition but the video showed that it wasn’t so see when that person complains is that how serious is that treated is that that

Serious Mis practice well specific circumstances if someone written in good faith that they thought interpreted something of a certain way rather it’s difficult for someone to make a judgment on that either way but what if it says things like as well the other thing it said was um the person

Was being evasive and refused to tell them what they were doing but when you watch the video they repeatedly tell them what they were doing You’ been To if you think that there’s been police to compl against the police but how serious is it treated though is it like serious it all the circumstan so the other thing as well is right the person recorded everything and when they got their device back after the court threw out

And they they deleted the video the police officer took control of the phone while it was still recording they shut it off and when the person got the phone back the video was in the deleted section of the phone so it no that person was relying

On that video is evid in court and that police officer deleted that video is that a serious but again there’s if somebody wanted to make a complaint they can make the complaint for us to make an assessment of that standing here right now without Pro possession of the P we’ll be wrong

There’s a due process for it so if somebody wants to make a complaint about an irregularity or how our officers conducted themselves that they can and if they feel they should then they should but for us to make an assessment of that right now without having made

That inquiry what has process to manage there’s a process there for it through a specific Department we can’t it would be wrong for us to do it we’d been making judgments on something just as a police officer complaint that’s made to the police about complaint against the police is

Read and is treated seriously and will be looked at on the on the individual merits you know but it undermines that due process for making the complaint if we start M off if we start saying this that about it Jud onose a point making is I wouldn’t be

Drawing on something like that because well we are speaking for the police officers in uniform you’re asking that question there’s a due process for it that is right that goes through that we can’t prejudge it we can’t make judgments on something that we are really don’t know very much about at all

It wouldn’t be fair than anybody can I say to you is every complaint against the police and every complaint made to the police against another M the public Whoever has treated seriously inquiries made in into but we can’t really speak individual cases and stuff like that so

It answer to your question yeah it will be treated if the complaints be made it will be treated as a complaint and it will be dealt with but know how when you work somewhere if somebody come and say to by the way there’s an allegation against so so and this is the allegation

And you know oh that’s a serious if they they’re going to get a serious kind of talking to an investigation I just wonder is it treated series cuz the police investigating themselves basically aren’t they someone SE a series can be there can be as many interpretations as there are many people

Know about it so know what series to one person might not seem serious to those so again it’s an impossible question to answer I can’t tell you it will be looked into as if complain the police is but without having you so they have contacted Professional Standards

Um but I say like um that was last Friday and they still haven’t heard anything that I don’t know the exact time goes at that might be quite normal usually an acknowledgement we come Fair quickly but like a lot of workload to manage and it just depends on what

Shifts it could be if ever that inquiry I’ll get the inquiry and then go to rest back regular hours yeah all right listen thanks your team appreciate you mentioned that the police investigate themselves the first in the police investigation Rie commissioner which is independent so that can R any

Decision made if someone’s not happy with thoroughness and rigor of the this investigation PC isn’t it yeah have a good day right to extreme toity two police officers as you heard um never been thatu of Coles October yeah we now people are pro that complaint anyway and the word is silent

The people of Gaza are living in genocide there is no other word to describe it it is genocide and we have to stop it it is genoci not for the s ofo what’s the police position how like they chant like from the river to the see palese and people say that’s anti-semitic how’s

That view um the advice that we have is that well that may offend some people as noncriminal so we wouldn’t interv at this time okay see that allegation made don’t you anti-semitic it’s basically seen the the cleansing of the Israeli State say it’s not place that we have from thank

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Realize just basically said that the information from the is he had a quick glance down at the camera before he answered also try to be careful what he and they’re off so the police as well more over there another two vans so I don’t know if you’re getting a

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Walking I want to get a shot at this hotel from across the road right this is the Bel Grove Hotel and it’s a five star hotel in Glasgow if you’re ever in Glasgow make sure you oh no it’s closed I’m just joking it was a hotel for a the homeless

And it was always really kind of run down and F all characters but I see shut down now as I’ve not been along this way for quite a while so I don’t know how long it’s been closed but can i r the you looks a bit more run

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Shouting going to have a soft throat tonight I go to the football now it hits me for about two or three days after that when you start shouting at the Football they shouting nowhere near as much as I shout when I at the football cry t you see a lot of comments GLG people saying it’s just now it’s disgus milon it’s like they have these lovely new builds spend a lot of money building these nice new houses only for the

Outside to look that covered in rubbish you wonder what it is don’t you is it people is it the council not properly funding the L guys to go and pick up or is it the community if they to take some responsibility fire make sure that the area that they live in is nice

You know got take pride in where you live wow look at the Modern In wonder what that used to be old school what was that no yeah no see here oh it’s a used to be a swimming bus look oh right yeah look you like swimming I think yeah it’s funny you see these old buildings and among St these new you know the contrast

Yeah I’ve seen as exp generation the youngers used to go for a b like that resistance So that old building used to be a a bass I don’t know if it was like that other parts of the world where they had these big buildings that were just where people went and get washed before we hady bers in our own houses interesting that the building is

Still there because there’s other places in Glasgow where the the building down um but no white Veil bass we said interesting hello Harris hello that’s Harris oh it’s beautiful so was again look at this just bags are Rish dumped there C in Glasgow I don’t know if you see that

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