I have only found one news source that actual tells the story properly (warning, long read): https://whispering.media/the-maccabi-gospel/

After months of widespread protests across the UK, the police in West Midlands looked at multiple intelligence reports and concluded that protests and violence would be inevitable if the match went ahead and fans from Maccabi Tel Aviv were allowed to travel to Aston Villa's ground. Their advice was that away fans should not be granted tickets to the event.

The issues at the core of this decision are about alleged antisemitism rising in the UK, presumed violence of a group of fans with an uncertain intelligence picture, and how decisions were made with these analyses trading off against each other.

He resigned because of that process leading to the Home Secretary no longer having confidence in him.

I don't think the misleading of the select committee would have helped him, but he gave an answer based on all that he knew at that point in time, with the best of intentions. The fact he hadn't been briefed isn't his fault. The fact he leaned into a decision that had wide-ranging political ramifications without first opening up the discussion to more stakeholders is his fault, and it's why he's no longer in the job.

Last year, a man named Jihad Al-Shamie attacked a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur and killed two congregants before he could be stopped.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd63p1djgd7o

Antisemitic attacks have increased. Jews do not feel safe in Birmingham.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvdxrr0mxpo

Right next door to Aston Villa is Birmingham's Perry Bar ward, where they elected the independent MP Ayoub Khan, for what seems to be his support for the Palestinian side of the Israel-Palestine war.

The West Midlands police were keen to give the impression that they were even-handed and fair in banning Maccabi fans, claiming they consulted multiple faith communities in Birmingham, and besides Maccabi fans are rotters, look at what they did at this other match.

The other match did not exist. The Jewish community did not ask for the Maccabi fans to be banned. Those were lies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ng15qmy9o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev82g41vpdo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxw2nv6vzzo

> As the match was played last month, pro-Palestinian protesters, including Independent MP Ayoub Khan, gathered outside the stadium, waving flags and banners calling for an end to violence in Gaza.

In my view, the West Midlands police probably had partisan community leaders like Mr Khan tell them to keep Jewish/Israeli fans out of Birmingham or they'd cause a riot, and the police meekly went along with this, then concealed this true reason, and made up bullshit reasons for banning the fans... which they have been caught out on, because they used a chatbot that hallucinated falsehoods and they didn't even verify it before using it as justification to a Parliamentary select committee.

That is what is known as misleading Parliament. That's why the chief's position is untenable.

> officers had found this material through a Google search

> the erroneous result concerning the West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match arose as result of a use of Microsoft Co Pilot

> his force used fictional output from Microsoft Copilot

What this says is that the material originates from Copilot.

I suppose you can read that and interpret that they lied about the Google search, but if you assume incompetence over malice, the more likely interpretation is that they didn't properly verify their source found through Google. It could have been the source of the source of their source that used Copilot, not the officers themselves.

The takeaway here is that even if you don't use AI tools and do things as you did before AI, you may still be basing your work on AI content.

A parallel may someone saying they don't use AI in their code because they don't use AI tools, but then it turns out that a dependency of a dependency is built by AI.

I wonder if this was one of those Google AI "summaries" that people are so happy to trust.