📓 the-policing-bill-will-undermine-the-right-to-protest-at-a-critical-moment-in-the-fight-to-avoid-climate-breakdown.md by @neil ☆

The policing bill will undermine the right to protest at a critical moment in the fight to avoid climate breakdown

The [[Policing bill]] will undermine the [[right to protest]] at a critical moment in the fight to avoid [[climate breakdown]].

(I guess really here the actual claim is that the policing bill will undermine the right to protest. The followup about it being a bad time to do that is an addendum? Maybe I should split that out?)

Because

[[The policing bill increases the risk of peaceful demonstrators being criminalised]]

Epistemic status

Type : [[claim]]

Agreement vector : [[Signs point to yes]]

Haven’t looked at the policing bill a huge amount, but it does sound like what is contained within is designed to have a chilling effect on protest.