The criticism of the UK police arresting people for social media posts is largely fabricated as the actual arrests have been for people inciting violence/riots and pushing complete falsehoods to promote riots etc.
This incident, however, is completely about politically disagreeing with social media posts which is absolutely not a thing in the UK and would get thrown out of court in a heartbeat if police tried to do that. Also, the police would get heavily sued for wrongful arrest. Also, I can't see that a judge would keep someone incarcerated for that length of time over a social media post in the UK - it's just complete abuse of power.
>“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” Steinbaugh said.
As a right leaning person, I see people criticize the UK all the time for this kind of stuff. And here it happened in TN of all places?
The criticism of the UK police arresting people for social media posts is largely fabricated as the actual arrests have been for people inciting violence/riots and pushing complete falsehoods to promote riots etc.
This incident, however, is completely about politically disagreeing with social media posts which is absolutely not a thing in the UK and would get thrown out of court in a heartbeat if police tried to do that. Also, the police would get heavily sued for wrongful arrest. Also, I can't see that a judge would keep someone incarcerated for that length of time over a social media post in the UK - it's just complete abuse of power.
>“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” Steinbaugh said.
True ... and there it is, it happened. :(
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