Another disgraced top cop

The BBC reports:

The chief constable of West Midlands Police has retired after damning criticism of a decision to ban Israeli fans from a match against Aston Villa.

Craig Guildford’s retirement was confirmed on Friday after both Downing Street and the home secretary said this week they had lost confidence in his leadership.

He faced numerous calls to resign after apologising for providing incorrect evidence to MPs, which included the denial that AI was used in a report which led to the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the game on 6 November.

The real scandal isn’t the incorrect information, but the decision to ban Maccabi fans from the stadium. The West Midlands Police said it was because the fans were violent and would terrorise locals. This was a lie, with fake AI created evidence to justify it later. The real reason was that they thought the Maccabi fans would be attacked by Islamist elements in the UK.

So basically they banned the Jews, and blamed the Jews for their own banning, even though the actual intelligence was that the Jews would be the victims, not the aggressors.

Disgraceful.