Posted on 08/09/2024 8:45:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”.
District Judge Francis Rafferty said that someone’s presence at a riot made them involved in the riot as he refused two bail applications.
The judge spoke as four men appeared in Belfast magistrates’ court charged in relation to disorder in the city.
Cameron Armstrong, 18, from Belfast, was charged with rioting in the Connswater area of east Belfast, which saw “violent disorder, petrol bombs, fireworks and different projectiles thrown at police and extensive damage caused to property”, the court heard. ‘Periphery of the scene’
Armstrong’s solicitor said that his client had never come to the attention of the police before, adding that while he admitted he was on the “periphery” of the scene, he denied being involved in any of the disorder.
When asked by the judge what he was doing at the scene, the defence solicitor told the court that Armstrong had gone to the area “to have a look”, adding that he had left when petrol bombs were thrown.
Judge Rafferty said: “He doesn’t have to throw a petrol bomb or brick to be involved in disorder, if he’s present at disorder.”
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Leave your phone at home.
Does this include the Press? Are they locking up reporters?
“It’s a wide noose.”
What the UK has now become would make Stalin turn in his grave.
The police will lose respect and credibility if this plan is followed through, while leaving anyone named Mohammed alone, other than profuse and sickening apologies from the Prime Minister. Does he think people don’t see the selective enforcement of the common law? We often have the same problems here since MAGA became a thing.
Only applies to natives.
So when the Brits attempt to arrest Americans we whip their fairy azzes for the third time, take Northern Ireland, and return it to the REAL Iriah.
“Two-Tier Kier”, England’s favorite Fascist.
Biden better hurry up and appoint this British Judge to our court system. He would definitely feel welcome in our Federal Court System.
so, Kinda like what the Democrats did to conservatives that just happened to be in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021?
Stalin re-opened churches and allowed religious freedom, also taxes under him were lower than any of our western nations right now
British authoritarianism.
Covid lock-downs in 2020. Two years later, prohibited from sharing opinions on social media. Prohibited from silently praying outside abortion clinics. Prohibited from watching a riot in progress.
How is this any different than communist China or North Korea?
Still left a SERIOUS body count.
Keep it up and the Irish will commandeer more than Johnston’s motorcar.
It’s called anarchy-tyranny.
The idea is you use the mobs (foreigners of various types) to beat down the opposition population (here it’s whites but can vary by country).
Then when you need to shore up street cred you go in and arrest somebody who won’t or can’t give much opposition. Like a grandma walking into the capital building on J6 while leaving rioters who burn people alive alone.
Our leaders, and now especially in the UK, are really not that different from Islamic extremists. Both employ terror to subdue the masses. In one instance the god is diversity, equity, inclusion, LGBTQIAABCYOUANDME, the whole globomomo nonsense, the other instance it’s Allah.
Oh, and the British police need our addresses, so bobbies please feel free to Freepermail me and I will tell you where you can shove your heads.
This new Labour Govt seems to be "jumping the shark." Their over-reaction is utterly ridiculous. I'm reminded of Ceaușescu in his last day, telling the Bucharest crowds to behave themselves, as they were preparing to seize him and have him shot.
Gwen Walz should start getting nervous.
“I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. And I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
This is what happens when you don’t have a Bill of Rights
Serious power-tripping by the left going on in the U.K.
Does this include the Press? Are they locking up reporters?
Not just the press. They need to lock up the cops who also watch the riots. As they do nothing to stop them.
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