WOKE police chiefs had to apologise to an ex-cop who was arrested for a social media comment criticising a pro-Palestinian activist.
Julian Foulkes, 71, was briefly handcuffed after six officers with batons turned up.
He said: “Free speech is clearly under attack.”;;
The were seen in bodycam footage remarking that some of his literature at his Gillingham home — including a book by Sun columnist — looked “very ”;;.
And they bizarrely raised an alarm over his hairdresser wife’s shopping list because it included bleach and foil.
Ex-special constable Julian, who served Police for a decade, had responded to a message backing — amid reports of anti-Jewish mobs storming an airport in to confront Israeli citizens after the October 7 2023 Hamas attack.
He wrote: “One step away from storming Heathrow looking for Jewish arrivals . . . ”;;
He was locked up for eight hours and given a caution.
After a review, Kent Police has said sorry to him for the distress and expunged the caution from his record.
