{"id":111244,"date":"2024-08-09T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/dartford-councillor-charged-over-counter-protest-remark\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:12:03","slug":"dartford-councillor-charged-over-counter-protest-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/dartford-councillor-charged-over-counter-protest-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Dartford councillor charged over counter-protest remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/0c32\/live\/8af6c680-5622-11ef-aa81-7b805486d6da.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dartford councillor charged over counter-protest remark\" title=\"Dartford councillor charged over counter-protest remark\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones has been charged with encouraging violent disorder after comments at a London counter-protest. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Videos appeared online which seem to show Mr Jones, 57, telling a crowd in Walthamstow that far-right demonstrators should have their throats cut.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Dartford councillor was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on Thursday and was charged on Friday, said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Jones will appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday afternoon.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Jaswant Narwal, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London North, said: \u201cThe Crown Prosecution Service has authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Ricky Jones, 57, with one count of encouraging violent disorder.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cJones was filmed addressing a crowd in Walthamstow on 7 August during which he appeared to make remarks and a gesture to encourage others to act violently towards far-right protestors.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cHe has been arrested and charged within 48 hours, and will now appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court this afternoon, 9 August.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cWe remind all concerned that criminal proceedings are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cIt is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary, or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.\u201d<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Jones has been a councillor in Dartford, Kent, since 2019. He has been suspended by the Labour Party.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/credz9gl92yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones has been charged with encouraging violent disorder after comments at a London counter-protest. Videos appeared online which seem to show Mr Jones, 57, telling a crowd in Walthamstow that far-right demonstrators should have their throats cut. The Dartford councillor was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on Thursday and was charged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/0c32\/live\/8af6c680-5622-11ef-aa81-7b805486d6da.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[13753,3288,91500,91053,5564],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111246,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111244\/revisions\/111246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}