From 30 Apr 2026Zack Polanski strongly criticised for retweeting post suggesting police arresting Golders Greens suspect used excessive forceThe Green party leader, Zack Polanski, has been criticised for retweeting a post on X suggesting that the police used excessive force when they arrested the suspect in the Golders Green attack.Polanski, a profilic user of social media, reposted without comment a tweet which, referring to Mark Rowley, the Met police commissioner, contained the message message: “So essentially his officers were repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head when he was already incapacitated by a Taser.”Polanski retweet Photograph: XMike Tapp, a Home Office minister, responded by saying:
double quotation markI’m disgusted that anyone with this view is leading any political party. The Green Party has hit a new low.
A spokesperson for the Jewish Labour Movement said:
double quotation markThe Jewish community is hugely grateful to the police for apprehending a knife-wielding terrorist before he stabbed more Jews.
If a terrorist won’t drop the knife used to stab two Jews, then any sensible person would expect the police to use force. It’s shocking Zack Polanski and his ‘comrades’ are soft on terrorists.
