Who would have guessed that the first person to be wrongly charged under sweeping new police powers would just happen to be black. https://twitter.com/thejohnsimpson/status/1246029960852226048">https://twitter.com/thejohnsi...

Yes, a lockdown was absolutely necessary - and imposed too late - to save hundreds of thousands of lives.

But as I wrote the day it was imposed: flagrant abuses of police power, including racism, must be passionately fought. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1242222097038008327">https://twitter.com/OwenJones...

(To be clear, for those intentionally misreading this: lockdown will stop hundreds of thousands of deaths, which is what the Imperial College model projected without action, but because it was imposed late, there will still be too many people dying unnecessarily)