Credit where it’s due. A video in the news this week shows something many thought had almost disappeared from public life: a police officer calmly defending free speech. The video shows a female Metropolitan Police officer standing alone in Whitechapel, surrounded by a crowd of angry Muslim men, calmly defending the right of a Christian street preacher to preach. In the midst of complaints and pressure, she made it plain that in this country people are free to speak — and that those who dislike what they hear are free to walk away.
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