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UK citizen films his arrest for ‘offensive’ Facebook comments and it’s CHILLING!

August 6, 2024 | | Print Article

Public safety seemed a low police priority in the United Kingdom as machete-wielding rabble-rousers ran amok but commentary put a man in cuffs.

As had been witnessed in Ireland earlier in the year, a violent crime blamed on illegal immigration resulted in three children being killed as a 17-year-old set about attacking a dance workshop, leaving eight others injured in a stabbing spree.

While corporate media deflected any potential cultural conflict for the attack, glossing over the fact that the Cardiff-born suspect was in fact a first-generation Welshman to Rwandan parents, authorities appeared to have no problem laying the hammer down on their citizens as even the most timid of protests amid social unrest brought the Bobbies knocking.

“Arrested for making comments on Facebook! Is this Britain or the Soviet Union? Is this accurate @CommunityNotes?” asked Elon Musk as he shared a widely circulated video of a man being told he was being arrested for something he’d posted online.

“I’m arresting you on suspicion of improper use of the electronic communications network,” the officer explained in the latest example of such an arrest. “This is in relation to some comments that you’ve made on a Facebook page,” she went on without acquiescing to a request to inform the suspect what specific comments had prompted the arrest until they brought him to the station.

Since the fatal stabbing, protesters opposed to the mass influx of foreign nationals into the United Kingdom have clashed with the likes of Antifa and Muslims claiming to be the targets of “right-wing” extremists.

In reaction to the civil unrest, UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper opted to remind citizens that they had zero tolerance for such behavior, “There will be a reckoning for criminals & thugs who took part in violence on streets, burning buildings, attacks on mosques, looting shops & the whipping up of racist violence online. They do not speak for Britain & they’ll pay the price for their crime.” [emphasis added].

Likewise, a post from the Home Office stated that along with up to ten-year sentences for criminal damage and rioting, “inciting racial hatred” could land someone up to 7 years in prison.

Meanwhile, as previously detailed, the media appeared engaged in narrative-spinning regarding the stabbing suspect that sparked the protests as they used an image of him as a young child during their reports rather than how he currently looked as a 17-year-old.

Having been recently jailed himself for contempt of court over filming suspects in a sexual exploitation trial, Tommy Robinson lashed out at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer who’d condemned the protests stating, “This is not protest, it is pure violence. We will have a standing army of public duty officers. We will ramp up criminal justice. We will apply criminal law online as well as offline. We will not tolerate attacks on mosques or on Muslim communities.”

“LET’S BE CLEAR,” wrote Robinson who’d shared a video of the extreme violence, “@Keir_Starmer’s message to the working class is simple. Your women and children can be murdered, groomed, raped and abused. And you will shut up for the sake of diversity, if you don’t shut up you’re a Nazi, and you will be prosecuted.”

Musk and Robinson were joined by scores of others in expressing outrage over the arrest video that earned comparisons to dystopian fiction.

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