LAUGHING STOCK status.
The Commission got off to bad start with lots of people from across the city when its newly appointed Chair – who no one had ever heard of – University of Bristol History Professor Tim “
OWN GOAL” Cole, decided, after a phone call with the CPS over the summer, that his Commission would
COLLABORATE with the Avon & Somerset Police and become part of the criminal justice system.
Own Goal, we learn,
UNILATERALLY made the dubious decision – of questionable academic ethics – that his commission would be part of the
PUNISHMENT for protestors who hauled down the Colston statue and got conditionally cautioned by police for criminal damage. Prof Own Goal agreed to oversee a questionnaire where protestors would set out their reasons for their actions. Remarkably, most members of the commission only learned of Own Goal’s dodgy decision when they read about it in
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