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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou and Kate Devlin

Green Party divisions exposed as Polanski faces backlash over ‘inappropriate’ Golders Green post

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has faced a backlash from within his own party after he shared a controversial social media post criticising the arrest of the Golders Green attack suspect, which the chief of the Met Police described as “inaccurate and misguided”.

Mr Polanski is facing calls to apologise for retweeting an X post accusing Met officers of detaining the suspect of “repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head” when he was already incapacitated from being tasered.

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