A British activist has caused a storm by publicly stating that killing police officers is justified. Matthew Hankinson, who has previously been jailed for membership of a banned group, National Action, said there was a solid moral argument for killing police and that the law is just a piece of paper used to “enforce illegitimate power.”
When the media called him out on his views, Hankinson refused to back down and said he was exercising his right to free speech and to participate in public dialogue. He did acknowledge, however, that violence usually creates more violence, but blamed “police oppression” for provoking public aggression and widening the divide between the people and law enforcement.
Mainstream media accused Hankinson of spreading “conspiracy theories” such as the “great replacement,” which many have dismissed as an anti-migrant dog whistle. Nevertheless, some left-wing publications and mainstream studies have previously noted that, under current levels of migration, white Britons will be a minority in the UK by the end of the century. Whites are already a minority group in several major British cities, including the capital city, London.
Tensions have increased in the UK recently as British citizens witnessed hundreds of thousands of arrivals by small boats. Illegal immigrants pull up on British beaches in dinghies daily and are taken to hotels by Border Force officials, where they remain at taxpayers’ expense until they are given permanent accommodation.
Local anger recently spilled onto the country’s streets as protestors hurled missiles at hotels, and in the town of Rotherham in Yorkshire, rioters set fire to a Holiday Inn Express housing around 240 illegal immigrants.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer warned that “far-right thugs” would “regret” taking part in demonstrations but has come under fire for failing to acknowledge attacks on whites or considering that those opposed to mass migration may have legitimate concerns.
On Twitter, a hashtag entitled Right Wing Thugs Unite emerged in response to Starmer’s description of the demonstrators. Many people posted photos of themselves saying they are considered Right Wing Thugs by the country’s Prime Minister, even though they include vast numbers of women, veterans, and people never before implicated in crime or racism. Such individuals complain that crime has skyrocketed in Britain, and that migrants have unleashed attacks on natives that do not elicit a response from the government.
Additionally, growing numbers of natives complain of what they call “two-tier policing” and accuse the police of taking a soft-hand approach to migrants while cracking down hard on white Britons. Examples of such alleged behavior also appeared on Twitter, with some images showing police wrestling white people to the ground while telling armed Muslim gangs they were there to protect them.
When Sir Mark Rowley, Commission of London’s Metropolitan Police, was asked by a reporter if he planned to “end two-tier policing,” he grabbed the reporter’s microphone and appeared to disable it. A statement from the Metropolitan Police HQ, Scotland Yard, addressed the incident and denied that Sir Mark was upset by the question. The statement then skipped ahead to describe a “constructive meeting” between Rowley and Prime Minister Starmer.
