It took SIX police officers armed with pepper spray and batons to arrest
a 71 year old Brit - who was a retired constable himself - after he
wrote a tweet that was taken out of context. He then spent 8 hours at
the police station being interrogated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a44S7nnT5oo [14 minutes]
The comments tell us that it is almost impossible to get a police
response to a burglary, mugging, or anything else that we might call a
real crime but say something that *might* offend someone, then they can
send out a large contingent of officers.
It's no wonder that some large policing districts literally haven't
solved a burglary or car theft - not a single one - in years. They're
all too busy policing speech.
On 5/13/2025 4:08 PM, Rhino wrote:
It took SIX police officers armed with pepper spray and batons to
arrest a 71 year old Brit - who was a retired constable himself -
after he wrote a tweet that was taken out of context. He then spent 8
hours at the police station being interrogated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a44S7nnT5oo [14 minutes]
The comments tell us that it is almost impossible to get a police
response to a burglary, mugging, or anything else that we might call a
real crime but say something that *might* offend someone, then they
can send out a large contingent of officers.
It's no wonder that some large policing districts literally haven't
solved a burglary or car theft - not a single one - in years. They're
all too busy policing speech.
I watched enough to hear that the guy (mistakenly) sent a tweet that
said "Round up the Jews". Before leaping on officers for responding,
ask yourself whether these same commentators -- if the guy HAD gone on
some murderous anti-semitic rampage -- would now be brandishing the
tweet as evidence of feckless police inaction.
On 2025-05-13 5:40 PM, moviePig wrote:
On 5/13/2025 4:08 PM, Rhino wrote:Apparently, if you had read the chain of tweets, it would have been blindingly obvious that the man meant nothing of the kind and police
It took SIX police officers armed with pepper spray and batons to
arrest a 71 year old Brit - who was a retired constable himself -
after he wrote a tweet that was taken out of context. He then spent 8
hours at the police station being interrogated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a44S7nnT5oo [14 minutes]
The comments tell us that it is almost impossible to get a police
response to a burglary, mugging, or anything else that we might call
a real crime but say something that *might* offend someone, then they
can send out a large contingent of officers.
It's no wonder that some large policing districts literally haven't
solved a burglary or car theft - not a single one - in years. They're
all too busy policing speech.
I watched enough to hear that the guy (mistakenly) sent a tweet that
said "Round up the Jews". Before leaping on officers for responding,
ask yourself whether these same commentators -- if the guy HAD gone on
some murderous anti-semitic rampage -- would now be brandishing the
tweet as evidence of feckless police inaction.
should have been able to see it plainly. (Unfortunately, they don't
share the whole context with us or tell us how to find it so it's
difficult to be sure.)
In any case, is it your position that anything upsetting which is said online, regardless of context, needs to be investigated by police
immediately and the offender arrested lest something horrible happen? Or
are we just reserving this treatment for those who are likely to be
deemed "right wing"?
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