UK: 12 Held Without Bail After Anti-Migrant Protest in Gosport
The Facts
- 12 people arrested during Sunday's anti-migrant protest in Gosport, England, remained in custody Monday, police said. Those held were 11 men aged 22 to 59 and a 57-year-old woman from Emsworth, arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.
- Around 350 demonstrators gathered near Haslar Marina after the Home Office said 149 migrants rescued mid-Channel were being brought ashore. Flares were set off and scuffles broke out, and the crowd dispersed by 2 a.m. local time on Monday.
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary imposed conditions under the Public Order Act, banned face coverings used to conceal identity and ordered protesters into a designated area of Walpole car park. A dispersal order covered Gosport until 7 a.m. Tuesday.
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The Spin
Left narrative
Mob rule at the scene of a dockside law enforcement operation is not a legitimate response to a humanitarian rescue at sea. Assaulting officers, racially abusing people and blocking ambulances puts lives at risk and shames a town. Crossings are falling sharply and every arrival faces security, health and biometric checks, so the hysteria whipped up by local politicians serves nobody but itself.
Right narrative
Anger at the people genuinely trying to stop illegal migration is the predictable result of a government that keeps promising to stop the boats and instead keeps unloading them into towns against their will. A two-tier justice system that jails one man over a dinghy while bailing out terror suspects only deepens the contempt. Ordinary people are told to stay quiet while the border is treated as a formality.
