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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
David Batty

Uniformed police not welcome at Pride in London, say organisers

Police officers pose for a photograph during Pride in London in July 2017.
Police officers pose for a photograph during Pride in London in July 2017. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

Pride in London says uniformed officers should not march in the parade, following calls from LGBTQ+ campaigners to bar them due to Scotland Yard’s “homophobic” handling of the investigation into the serial killer Stephen Port.

The move came after the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said the case, which the independent police watchdog recently announced it was reinvestigating, showed that “institutional homophobia is alive and kicking in the Metropolitan police”.

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