The mood does not seem to be getting less divisive: after weeks of protests in the city's
streets against police officers — and two more set for this weekend in Washington and in New York — cops are now planning their own pro-police rally next week.
Not exact matches
New York
police officers block the
street during a protest
against U.S. President - elect Donald Trump in front of Trump Tower on Nov. 12, 2016 in New York.
Andrew Mitchell's foul - mouthed tirade
against police officers on duty outside Downing
Street was supposed to be nothing more than a Cabinet minister losing his temper so badly it damned the entire government as a bunch of not - caring Tory snobs.
Until earlier this month, the former chief whip's foul - mouthed tirade
against police officers guarding the Downing
Street gate was destined to be the number one gaffe of the year.
The former chief whip, who was forced out of the Cabinet after a storm over his alleged foul - mouthed rant
against police officers on duty outside Downing
Street, has questioned the impartiality of Scotland Yard's senior figures.
Police precincts across NYC are reportedly calling off their planned annual festivities because they can't afford to take officers off the street while protests against police brutality continue to crop up almost ni
Police precincts across NYC are reportedly calling off their planned annual festivities because they can't afford to take
officers off the
street while protests
against police brutality continue to crop up almost ni
police brutality continue to crop up almost nightly.
«Communities don't want gimmicks like «respect handbooks» - they want
police officers on their
streets to take real action
against antisocial behaviour,» said shadow
police minister Nick Herbert.
Grays and the
officers initially engaged in an expletive - laced exchanged before the
police got out of their car and eventually forced Grays across the
street and
against a wall, where the ongoing back - and - forth was caught on video.
The deputy prime minister backed the home secretary, Theresa May, who called for disciplinary action
against the representatives of the
Police Federation who met Mitchell a month after an altercation with armed
officers in Downing
Street in September last year.
Not that anyone needed reminding, in light of the heightened security measures up and down the Croisette: the constant presence of armed
police officers; the large, heavy planters lining the
streets to protect
against a vehicular attack, and the metal detectors set up at every entrance to the Palais des Festivals.