‘Well done’ – Labour front-bencher Perkins deletes tweet praising police violence against protesters Archived Message
Posted by Tomski on March 25, 2021, 10:48 pm, in reply to "Deleted BBC report : "It was peaceful before the police arrived""
https://skwawkbox.org/2021/03/23/well-done-labour-front-bencher-perkins-deletes-tweet-praising-police-violence-against-protesters/ ‘Ratioed’ tweet praising footage of police hitting protesters with batons ‘deleted by user’ Labour front-bencher Toby Perkins has deleted a tweet in which he responded to footage of police in Bristol laying into protesters with batons by praising the officers and their actions as ‘well done’, ‘entirely appropriate’ and a ‘good example’: Perkins tweeted the comment in the early afternoon of 22 March, but by the evening it was gone, after being heavily ‘ratioed’ – considered a sign of an unpopular tweet – and slammed by many who likened it to the infamous conduct of police at the Orgreave pit during the miners’ strike of the 1980s, or even worse: Etc.
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