On my last real vacation back in 2001, my wife and I flew to London. I had the time of my life. I've banked quite a few vacation days and like to think I'd use them to visit London again, but it doesn't sound like the same city I visited before. Knife crime is reportedly a big deal in the city, and the streets were recently taken over by hundreds of thousands of pro-Hamas protesters.
Palestinian activists launch fireworks at Metropolitan Police officers in London tonight while screaming “f**k the pigs.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) November 11, 2023
Around 300,000 Palestinian activists took to the streets today to disrupt Remembrance Day memorial services.
🎥 @IncMonocle
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Plus, freedom of speech has taken a real hit — the police have set up "zones" around abortion clinics and will arrest you for literally praying silently across the street from an abortion clinic. No sign, no bullhorn, no obstruction … silent prayer. It's illegal.
Apparently, you're not allowed to sing church songs outside of a church either.
ENGLAND
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) January 29, 2024
'You're not allowed to sing church songs outside the church grounds'
Christians harassed for singing, in bizarre altercation with police officer pic.twitter.com/fNXVKap0lH
The Metropolitan Police are on it.
This was filmed in Oxford Street, Westminster, over the weekend.
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) January 29, 2024
We're working to understand the context in which these comments were made.
We will update as soon as we can
We're reviewing body worn video of this interaction - it's more than 40mins long.
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) January 29, 2024
At the heart of this is a specific by-law related to busking.
The officer knows she could have handled this differently and is speaking to her manager.
"She's speaking to her manager."
We're aware of significant social media commentary.
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) January 29, 2024
Some of the comments are personal and hurtful.
This is unacceptable.
Oh, boo hoo. One of your officers gets out of line, the video goes viral, and there are mean tweets. Some of them are personal and hurtful, which is "unacceptable."
The policing of speech in the U.K. is profoundly troubling. Ireland is considering a law to consider even having a meme on your phone as "hate speech." Let's look at some of those hurtful comments.
But Muslims are allowed to blast call to prayer across whole towns on speakers and pray anywhere they like outside of a Mosque?
— Mr Bic (@bribks5) January 29, 2024
Invent the law as you go.
— Accession of Architecture (@adcedere) January 29, 2024
Crazy eyes.
— Matt Eshelman (@TheMattEsh) January 29, 2024
Demon in uniform
— Dennis Roady (@DennisRoady) January 30, 2024
Volunteer Nazi
— Michael (Classical Liberal) (@Classic_Lib_M) January 30, 2024
Communist
— The Real Anthony Pereda (@PeredaTheOne) January 30, 2024
Oh look! Another power hungry #LesbianNana
— The Crazzzy Conservative (@canderson93) January 29, 2024
Wow, a lesbian who doesn't like church people and church music. Shocker. She must know people don't like her that much either.
— Bleedmoor (@bleedmoor) January 29, 2024
Volunteer power trip
— The Current Thing (@NealB4Zod_) January 29, 2024
Every time one of these frauds misrepresents the law, they should be fined, demoted, and retrained.
— Oscar Pretell (@OPretell70560) January 29, 2024
The UK is a laughing stock along with other western countries. I’m officially embarrassed to be British.
— james (@jameschapl53561) January 29, 2024
Honestly, those were the most "hurtful" comments I could find. The Metropolitan Police are tied up policing social media so they have to send out volunteers to police the streets. Is that it?
Back in October, the Metropolitan Police posted that they were aware of a video of police officers tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis, allegedly to reduce "community tensions." "Context is always important," they tweeted.
Be very careful online when saying anything about the waves of immigrants who've taken over the city; that's a red flag for hate speech.
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