Posted on 08/01/2022 2:45:21 PM PDT by lowbridge
This is the moment an army veteran was arrested by police for 'causing anxiety' after retweeting a picture of a swastika made out of Pride flags on social media.
Darren Brady, 51, has slammed Hampshire Police for 'impeding his right to free speech' after he was placed into handcuffs on Friday at his home in Aldershot for sharing a meme.
Footage of the arrest was widely shared on social media and showed an officer who told Mr Brady he was being apprehended because his post had 'caused anxiety' and been reported to authorities.
The image Mr Brady retweeted was of a swastika that had been digitally manipulated and was made out of four LGBT pride flags.
In the video, shot on a mobile phone, Mr Brady can be heard asking the three police officers: 'Why am I in cuffs?'
One officer responds: 'It didn't have to come to this at all.'
Mr Brady replied: 'Tell us why you escalated it to this level because I don't understand.'
The officer adds: 'Someone has been caused anxiety based on your social media post. That is why you have been arrested.'
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1553471082501398528
But they can call us Nazis every day and twice on Sunday and we’re expected to take it.
Someone has been caused “anxiety” by being places in handcuffs over a tweet.
I think if I wasn’t looking for the Nazi symbol I wouldn’t have seen it.
So the “Red Flag” laws are NEVER abused? /s
Seems a lot like “Swatting” to me.
Hope he has a lawyer on speed-dial and cost the county plenty.
This is the meme he posted.
I've posted it here a few times myself.
In today’s USA (some) criminals and murderers are not punished. People who are in a certain location at a certain time are arrested and thrown into solitary without a trial. Posting images is now treated as a crime.
Home of the free? Land of liberty?
> British policing, 2022. <
Yep. This “causing anxiety” excuse is being used more and more by British police. Sometimes they will call it “an offense against public order” instead. Funny how they weren’t so vigilant when it came to the Muslim rape gangs.
Anyway, this is coming to a country near you. Our cops won’t use the anxiety or public order excuse though. You’ll be charged with “hate speech” instead.
I already posted this on Faceboook. So far, no response from them. Did this a couple weeks ago.
Someone else’s emotional reaction is caused in their own brain, by their own voilition; it is not directly caused by any speaker at all. To mentally think “I disagree with that” is a rational response. To claim your disagreement with the statement takes away the speakers own free speech rights is not rational, unless you are a fascist or a communist.
Busted by the Fag Police
Totally spot on-
Well, here we are...
Free Speech is protected inviolate by the US Constitution. Freedom from being offended, still looking.
You realize this is in Britain right?
Not that America is far behind unless people stop messing around on socialist media, pushes back from the computer and do at least 2 simple things starting now until November 2024.
Become a PCO and work your precinct especially insure your people vote.
Volunteer to be a poll watcher in your county. (I have, and trust me, I’m way out of my comfort zone.)
That’s all it will take to stop this stuff in its tracks.
Eventually other people are going to research dead man switches.
Apparently, the British constitution/bill of rights (?) protects citizens from anxiety.
Life imitates “woke”.
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