Gideon Falter has called for Met Police's Sir Mark Rowley to resign or be replaced by a commissioner who will end the marches for Palestine. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The idea that I would be confronting police officers and that they would be telling me to get out of the area or they would arrest me,
00:08it just beggars belief.
00:10And so I was completely taken by surprise at what happened, at the way that they treated me,
00:16and particularly this idea that being openly Jewish in London is now an arrestable offence.
00:22I just found it staggering.
00:24Imagine there was a far-right march going on,
00:27and out of the corner of their eye the police spy a black person walking along the road.
00:33Does anyone imagine that the police would grab that black person, pull them off to the side of the road,
00:38and say, you get out of here now because you're going to antagonise people by your presence,
00:42and if you stay here we're going to arrest you?
00:44I don't think anyone thinks that would happen.
00:46We've heard very little from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Home Secretary, James Cleverley.
00:51Those are the two people who decide who the Commissioner of the Met is.
00:55And we've heard also very little from the actual Commissioner at the moment, Sir Mark Rowley.
01:00The time has come for him to go. He's had six months to sort this out.
01:03He hasn't done it. He needs to go.
01:05If he doesn't resign, he needs to be replaced by the Mayor and the Home Secretary.
01:10And we need a Commissioner who is going to come in and say,
01:13look, enough. These marches cannot happen every single week anymore.
01:18If there is lawlessness on these marches, we will bring it under control,
01:21and we will make it safe for absolutely everybody to walk on London's streets
01:26if that's what they wish to do.
01:28And we're going to start now going for a walk as a Jewish community
01:33every single Saturday that these marches are happening
01:36until that's what we get from the police.