The arrest of #LBC reporter #CharlotteLynch this morning by #HertfordshirePolice is absolutely reprehensible. Keeping her locked in a cell for 5 hours... beyond belief.

Has the #UK become a #PoliceState?

Heads need to roll...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/09/education-secretary-arrest-lbc-journalist-just-stop-oil-protest

It is worrying that a card carrying journalist #CharlotteLynch, working for #LBC can be arrested for merely covering a #JustStopOil protest.

If the #press aren't free from police interference, then our democracy is in a worse place as a consequence.

Yes, sometimes mistakes are made, some mistakes have unintended consequences.

#Hertfordshire #police, in acting like US police, risk further damaging the public's already fragile trust in the police as an institution.