Re: [OT] 71 year old Brit arrested for tweet taken out of context

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.