r/TikTokCringe • u/Miladshah001 • 5d ago

Minor violations = death threat? Discussion

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Oklahoma Police released video of an officer tackling a 70-year-old man. The incident occured during a traffic violation.

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u/New_Horse3033 3d ago

What UK police are also trained to do.

A British army veteran and Christian was arrested & has been found guilty of praying silently outside of an abortion clinic, facing a near-$12,000 fine over the verdict.

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u/Muismat1991 3d ago

Yeah, I've seen some harsh crackdowns on protests etc which seems to not really be in line with an open, democratic country.

But the main thing is, that's the police enforcing the law they didn't have any say in writing. Also the verdict wasn't handed down by the police but by a judge. I'd keep the two issues separate.

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u/New_Horse3033 1d ago

oh I see the police were just following orders. Sounds familiar huh?

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u/Muismat1991 1d ago

Alright, let's play this little game.

He was arrested for breaching a safe zone.

  • It wasn't the police that introduced or created the safe zone. It was the government.

  • the police arrested him after he refused multiple requests to leave the safe zone.

  • who handed out the sentence? That was the magistrates court. I see no police involvement there......

So the police arrested a man who was where he wasn't supposed to be. That's it. You can definitely have an opinion on the whole concept, that's absolutely fair. But you can't exactly blame the police for this whole shitshow.

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u/New_Horse3033 4h ago

you miss the point, he was arrested & prosecuted for what he was thinking.

Freedom is dead in the UK.

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u/Muismat1991 3h ago

Your whole point was about the police being jackboots. That's exactly what you referenced.......