I thought I might have been unfair in my views on the
@metpoliceuk but this has proved me right. They can’t even be bothered to spell check a tweet defending an alleged terrorist sympathiser. “Shorty”- we need a root and branch review of the people supposed to protect London
The word jihad has a number of meanings but we know the public will most commonly associate it with terrorism. We have specialist counter terrorism officers here in the operations room who have particular knowledge in this area.
They have assessed this video, filmed at the Hizb ut-Tahrir protest in central London today, and have not identified any offences arising from the specific clip.
However, recognising the way language like this will be interpreted by the public and the divisive impact it will have, officers have identified the man involved and will be speaking to him shorty to discourage any repeat of similar chanting.