UK’s Green Party Leader: The Police Response in Arresting the Comedian Over His Tweets Has Been ‘Proportionate’

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POLANSKI: “These are totally unacceptable tweets, and I accept that people who are in politics we get lots of abuse, but let's also face we shouldn't get abused, and I certainly recognize that women get more abuse than I do. For instance I get a lot of anti-Semitic abuse. I'm one of a few Jewish leaders that have been in British politics. Today a Muslim man was elected as my deputy leader, Mothin Ali. I've seen the amount of Islamophobia he gets. We also know that for all of those groups trans people have been in the sights of the nastiness and the toxicity for a long time. Now I accept proportionality of police response is a conversation we need to have.”
HOST: “But do you think this was proportionate?”
POLANSKI: “I think it was proportionate to arrest him. I think there's a pattern here.”