Spotted at former Labour councillor Ricky Jones’ “cut all their throats” speech on Wednesday was a woman ironically sporting an Amnesty shirt. As Jones has been charged by the police for “encouraging violent disorder”, one co-conspirator thought to contact Amnesty International on the concerning nature of a member cheering on Jones…
The charity that describes its mission as “exposing human rights abuses” responded in somewhat of a ‘nothing to see here’ way, claiming that the Amnesty activist in the video was “distracted and hadn’t heard the speaker’s comments when they applauded generally with the crowd.” Despite the fact Jones had a megaphone and was standing right next to her…
Read the full email below:
Labour have suspended the Labour Councillor, Ricky Jones, who was front and centre at a not-so-peaceful anti-racist protest in Walthamstow yesterday. The protest came in response to the mass ‘far-right’ riots predicted to happen last night, though never really materialised…
A Labour spokesperson tells Guido:
“This behaviour is completely unacceptable and it will not be tolerated. The councillor has been suspended from the party.”
A quick response from Labour…
UPDATE: Jones has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging murder and remains in custody.
