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Outrage has been sparked by a video that appears to show a Metropolitan Police officer telling a woman swastikas “need to be taken into context” and may not necessarily be anti-Semitic.
In footage taken during a pro-Palestine march in London on Saturday, a woman can be seen telling an officer that a different officer had told her “that a swastika was not necessarily anti-Semitic or a disruption of public order”.
The man being spoken to starts responding “so I think the symbol in of itself-“ before he is cut off by the woman telling the people around them: “Please, for the love of God, film this.”
Other voices can be heard telling the officer: “It is anti-Semitic.”
He starts explaining the Public Order Act to the woman before she asks: “Could you just explain under what context a swastika is not disrupting public order?”
The officer replies: “I haven’t said anything about it – that it is or it isn’t – everything needs to be taken in context doesn’t it?”