the ramblings of an anxious almost 30 year old

I’ve been supportive of lockdowns for the good of public health, and for the most part I still am because it’s clear that they’ve worked.

However, the UK is also a country of curtain-twitching bastards who’ll clipe on their neighbour for fuck all - and this has led to a certain proportion of the country cheering the police on to stop any form of mass gathering.

Would I have liked the police to make more arrests when rangers fans rioted in George Square and destroyed memorial benches? Yes, but they were rioting.

The people (majority of which were women) who attended the vigil were masked and holding flowers. There was only one approach the police could have taken, and that was assisting in making sure the event could be attended in a socially distanced way.

Instead they started grabbing at people, forcing them to the ground, making arrests. It genuinely looked like they wanted revenge for these women daring to hold a vigil for a woman who was murdered by one of their own fucking colleagues in the Metropolitan Police.