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UK: Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows

"Total of 532 arrests at London protest on Saturday, most for displaying placards or signs ... Males accounted for 263 of those detained, females 261 and eight either defined themselves as non-binary or did not disclose their gender."

Metropolitan Police arrested 532 people during a demonstration in Parliament Square on a Saturday.

The arrests were categorized by age range, with the 60-69 age group having the highest number of arrests (147 people).

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt "For our own safety, we should focus on those who are easily overpowered and restrained, but not so vulnerable they might die in custody. So old...but not too old."

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@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ..so only those under 90 then?

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@marjolica@social.linux.pizza @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I was being facetious of course, but police do seem to have arrested a disproportionate number of older folks.

Perhaps that's at least partly because they were the largest demographic there, but a cursory analysis suggests it was also to do with cowardly bullies with too much power, going after whoever they could use to inflate arrest figures.