Posted on 11/06/2018 9:39:47 AM PST by BenLurkin
Five people were arrested in London on Monday after a video posted on social media showed a group burning an effigy of Grenfell Tower, the public housing block where 72 people died in a massive blaze in 2017.
In a statement, London's Metropolitan Police said five men, ages 19 to 55, were being held on suspicion of a public order offense after they turned themselves in to a south London police station.
In the video, several people appear to be gathered around a model of the tower. After it's set alight, the group can be heard chuckling and cracking jokes.
“Help me, help me,” someone can be heard saying at one point.
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They were arrested for burning a model?
They should have been playing disco inferno. Maybe it was in poor taste, but why is this illegal?
What’s the charge?
“What are you in for?”
“Extreme insensitivity.”
They were arrested for making fun of a public tragedy. It’s written right into the British constitution. You can’t do that sort of thing.
Turn themselves into the police for what? Having fire?
The “official” number of 74 dead is a joke. People who live nearby know that the tower was full of illegals, some apartments packed with up to 20 people. These are/were not accounted for because there is not and never will be an accurate list of the residents.
On Guy Fawkes Day to boot.
The same country shoots off fireworks for Guy Fawkes. Isn’t that insensitive too?
Uh, yeah.
Beginning to wonder about that country.
It seems like we IMPROVED on what they had.
A lot.
Apparently the government in England can arrest people for some stuff so trivial is blows the mind. No wonder my ancestors couldn’t wait to get the heck out of there.
Maybe they are not allowed to process any incendiary devices..such as lighter or matches?
Vast majority of the victims were Muslims, most illegals.
Counting down until SNL hires them as writers...
Arrested for a “public order offense”. It must be something similar to Tommy Robinson’s “breaching of the peace”. Basically, any speech the state doesn’t like can fall under it.
Surely very bad taste and not funny, but criminal?
But that is not the point.
God praise the First Amendment!
NO first amendment in the UK
This is bad taste, but how is it “illegal?”
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