The current clusterfuck that's going on between policing and protest in the UK has piggybacked on the tragic news that a young woman was kidnapped and murdered on her way home, probably by a police officer.

This wouldn't be the argument we're having if people in power weren't so wholly in the habit of obfuscating the will of the electorate to the degree that the only way you can have your voice heard in a meaningful way is to *gather en masse*.

Criminalizing in-person gatherings during a global pandemic would be a lot more palatable if protest didn't seem like the only way of being heard.