Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway has distanced himself from a call by one his Respect party activists for Muslims to stop co-operating with the police. He said the plea - made by former journalist Yvonne Ridley at a meeting near the scene of an anti-terror raid in which a man was shot - is not party policy.But he warned that most young Muslims have no confidence in the police - accusing them of having a "shoot-and-slander" policy."I wasn't there, I haven't spoken to her, but our policy is not to withdraw co-operation form the police," he told BBC1's Question Time. "If she said that, she was wrong. But you are fooling yourself if you think that that is not already the policy being followed by angry young Muslims who see their co-religionists being shot and then slandered by the Metropolitan police."
He added: "People are shot down by the police and then they are slandered by the police afterwards in an attempt to confuse people about the blunders that have been made."