Calls to Remove Met Police Chief After ‘Openly Jewish’ Man Threatened With Arrest

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman and the Campaign Against Antisemitism said Sir Mark ’must go' over the Met’s handling of protests in the past 6 months.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley appearing before the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, to answer questions about the David Carrick case, at City Hall in east London, on Jan. 25, 2023. Yui Mok/PA Media

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is facing calls to quit or be fired after a campaigner was threatened with arrest for being “openly Jewish” near a pro-Palestine protest.

Gideon Falter, chief executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), said the April 13 incident happened to him when he went for “a walkabout around London” with others after going to synagogue, noting that’s what he “normally” does.