Yeah, but you didn't, did you? 🤬🤬
"She repeatedly told police he was menacing her and her four children. During this time Jones was arrested three times and his licensed firearms seized, but no further action was taken and his weapons were returned."
And they wonder why women are too scared to press charges ...
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jun/26/cps-admits-could-charged-stalker-woman-gunpoint
#UKPolitics #Justice #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

Do you think they might start taking it fucking seriously now?
No, me neither.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/18/uk-police-chiefs-issue-assessment-of-violence-against-women-and-girls
#UKPolitics #SexualAssault #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

Sorry, WHAT? 🤬
" ... the deputy commissioner (of the #MetPolice) wrote: “I’m not minimising the role we have to play (in upholding a law PREVENTING RAPE VICTIMS BEING FORCED TO HAND OVER THERAPY NOTES WHEN THEY REPORT A CRIME) ..."
"Nogah Ofer, of the Centre for Women’s Justice, said: “There is quite a lot of finger-pointing between the police and CPS on this issue ..."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/17/moj-and-police-row-on-twitter-over-pressure-on-rape-victims-to-hand-over-therapy-notes
#UKPolitics #SafeStreets #WomensRights #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

How is it even possible that 128 people can be arrested for protesting about animal safety, yet 98.4% of sexual assaults DON'T EVEN GET TO COURT.
#FFS #ToryBritain2023 #SafeStreets #RightToProtest #FuckTheTories #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #GrandNational #EnoughIsEnough

The legal definition of this is "non-fatal strangulation", which doesn't take into account that it *doesn't feel very fucking non-fatal at the time*
" I fail to see how partial suffocation by someone physically stronger, someone you don’t necessarily know well, with no help at hand, can be anything other than terrifying"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/choking-someone-for-sexual-kicks-isn-t-ever-acceptable-it-s-abuse-lbxq2dqd3
#DontNormaliseSexualViolence #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

Well, this is #GoodNews. If only the police weren't part of the problem.
"MPs approve bill to make harassment of women in public specific offence" GPLB
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #SafeStreets #MetPolice #UKPolitics #WomensRights

@RadicalGraffiti On the *exact same day* that Fiona Bruce, on the BBC's flagship political debate programme, dismissed Stanley Johnson's history of domestic violence - during a discussion on whether he should get a knighthood from his son, the former Prime Minister - as "he only did it once", despite verbal evidence given by Mrs Johnson to the contrary. Ms Bruce was an ambassador for a domestic violence charity at the time.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #Feminism #WomensRights

@harriettmb But then how would they be able to sustain their belief in their right to be "in charge"? Not even the police face consequences for rape and sexual assault of their own colleagues or the wider population, being that it's now de facto legal in this country.
#SafeStreets #Equality #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #ProChoice #WomensRights #MyBodyMyChoice #BodilyAutonomy

Fuck sake.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/17/dominic-raab-defends-met-police-as-damning-casey-report-looms
#SafeStreets #MetPolice #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #UKPolitics

"The history of human civilisation shows beyond any doubt that there is an intimate connection between cruelty and the sexual act."
Sigmund Freud
#UKPolitics #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #MetPolice

Well, I just got back from London and I'm knackered but more than that, I'm absolutely fucking furious. Hey, #FionaBruce, go and ask them whether it was a one off. 🤬
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/14/more-than-1500-uk-police-officers-accused-of-violence-against-women-in-six-months
#MetPolice #FuckTheTories #UKPolitics #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

She should be stepping down from Newsnight as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/13/fiona-bruce-to-step-down-as-refuge-ambassador-over-stanley-johnson-comments
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #SackFionaBruce

@Glencoe The only time domestic violence is a "one off" is when your name gets read out in Parliament on the femicide list.
Yours sincerely
A survivor
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #ItsNeverJustOnce #DomesticAbuse

Solidarity with the women of #Pakistan ✊
(from GPLB)
"Police officers wielding batons charged at participants of a Women’s March in Islamabad on Wednesday, as thousands of women took to the streets of multiple cities in Pakistan despite being told to stay at home."
#InternationalWomensDay #Aurat #IWD2023 #SmashThePatriarchy #WomensRights #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

A word on #ViolenceAgainstWomen on #IWD2023 #InternationalWomensDay
For any of you who aren't aware of this organisation:
https://wecantconsenttothis.uk/
Laura Farris MP is introducing a Private Members' Bill on sentencing for Sexually Motivated Manslaughter.
Try and support it any way you can. Write to your MP. If they're anything like my MP, it'll be an exercise in futility 🤬
#UKPolitics #WomensRights #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #DomesticViolence #SafeStreets #FuckTheTories

Three years today.
Rest in peace, Sarah Everard ✊ ❤️ .
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #SafeStreets #MetPolice

@proedie I hope that was supposed to be sarcastic because when 1% of rape cases result in arrest and only 9% of that 1% result in conviction (making rape effectively legal), using the *extremely fucking rare* false rape claims as a qualifier is repugnant. And this discounts the *huge* number of sexual assaults that aren't even taken to police by victims, based on the above stats and victim shaming. I'll remind you that Sarah Everard was murdered 3 years ago tomorrow.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen

What.
The.
Fuck.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/01/former-acting-met-commissioner-allegedly-called-bulk-of-complaints-regretful-sex
#UKPolitics #MetPolice #SafeStreets #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

@LChannon Also - and this might sound slightly ridiculous - make sure you've got something on your feet as often as possible, even if it's slippers.
#Experience #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

The violent, rapey murdery ones, the #spycops, or just the others? They've not been good at recognising the difference.
To come out with this shit in the same week of the anniversary of Sarah Everard's kidnap and murder is typical tone-deaf garbage we've come to expect.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/27/police-should-be-given-power-to-charge-suspects-say-senior-officers-cps
#UKPolitics #MetPolice #SafeStreets #EndViolenceAgainstWomen