Police tell immunocompromised protesters wearing masks ‘get arrested and plead after’
Police have told a campaign group for the families of people suffering a reduced immune system that they will be prosecuted for wearing masks at protests. The police also told them they will have to use their health issues in court as part of their defence. The Clinically Vulnerable Families (CVF) group played a major role in the Covid inquiry and represents people who could become seriously ill, or even die, from infections most of us would shrug off. Immunocompromised people wear masks in public as a defence against such infections. But the Police and Crime Act Section 157 criminalises the…
