Why the UK Police are Too Busy to Deal with Rape and Other Crimes … Busy Being Thought Police!
This one is incredible, and a sad commentary on the decline of Britain. On the one hand we have the UK police arresting a veteran merely for retweeting a meme featuring pride flags in something like a swastika, but I think a good lawyer could argue with this geometry, But on the other hand we have the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), which is supposed to invigilate law enforcement in England and Wales, which launched an investigation into three Mancunian officers following the publication of a grooming gangs inquiry commissioned by city mayor Andy Burnham, but which has discontinued its investigation into the trio. It has claimed it has been “unable to determine” why a police inquiry into grooming gangs, Operation Augusta, was shut down despite having identified 57 victims and 97 potential suspects. “Despite significant efforts, we were unable to determine who took the final decision to close Operation Augusta in July 2005, nor the rationale for doing so,” the IOPC said of the inquiry.
The UK police allowed the grooming rapes to continue, even when evidence was given to them, solely because they did not want to appear “racist.” So, rapes are allowed, if it is white children, and a white man is arrested for reposting a meme that supposedly hurt someone’s feelings.
“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.'
Harry Miller, a former police officer, was also arrested after claiming he had tried to prevent the former serviceman from being detained.
He told MailOnline: 'Hampshire Police showed a blatant disregard of the law. They approached Mr Brady and acted as summary judge, jury and executioner - but didn't know what offence he'd actually committed. They said he was being arrested for causing anxiety, which is utterly ridiculous!
'Mr Brady is a British Army Veteran and they were trying to extort him for money by making him pay around £80 for educational course so he could downgrade from a crime to a non-crime, which would still show up in a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
'They thought they could get away with it. It was the world's worst shakedown.'
Commenting on the video circulating on Twitter, Mr Miller wrote: 'I’d been locked up by this time and missed this exchange. I’m speechless.'
Mr Miller, who in December won a Court of Appeal challenge over police guidance on 'hate incidents', said police visited the man 10 days earlier and has informed him that he could take the option of attending an £80 education course to avoid being arrested and possibly charged with a criminal offence.
The veteran said he needed time to mull it over, before the officers agreed to return at a future date.
Writing on Twitter on Sunday, Mr Brady told his followers: 'It's nice to be able to enjoy a Sunday morning in peace without being harassed by Hampshire Police trying to extort money from me, or have me "re-educated" for sharing a meme on the Internet.'”
https://summit.news/2022/08/01/video-british-police-arrest-man-for-sharing-a-meme-on-facebook/
“The official police watchdog has claimed, after two years of investigation, that is has been unable to find out why Greater Manchester Police (GMP) dropped an inquiry into ‘Asian’ rape gangs that identified almost 100 suspects.
The Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), which is supposed to invigilate law enforcement in England and Wales, launched an investigation into three Mancunian officers following the publication of a grooming gangs inquiry commissioned by city mayor Andy Burnham which — like other inquiries before it — found that council officials, social workers, and police officers had failed the mostly white victims of mostly Muslim, South Asian heritage grooming gang rapists, in part due to politically correct fears around the issue.
However, the watchdog has now discontinued its investigations into the trio, referred to them by GMP after the Burnham-ordered inquiry, and claimed it has been “unable to determine” why a police inquiry into grooming gangs, Operation Augusta, was shut down despite having identified 57 victims and 97 potential suspects.
“Despite significant efforts, we were unable to determine who took the final decision to close Operation Augusta in July 2005, nor the rationale for doing so,” the IOPC said of the inquiry, which was launched in 2004 after 15-year-old rape gang victim Victoria Agoglia, who reported being sexually abused and injected with heroin to the authorities but was not helped, died of an overdose.
Steve Noonan, Director of Major Investigations at the IOPC, said that his organisation had “gathered and reviewed a significant amount of evidence, which helped us understand some of the actions taken” but that, ultimately, they were “not able to locate evidence showing who took the decision to close Operation Augusta and, more importantly, why.”
The IOPC claimed that challenges they faced included “the passage of time; a lack of available records of meetings and decisions taken at that time; and the fact some former GMP-employed police witnesses were either unable or unwilling to engage with our investigation.”
While Members of Parliament (MPs) could conceivably launch their own inquiry into the scandal and command these “GMP-employed witnesses” to appear before them on pain of being found in Contempt of Parliament, the IOPC made no such suggestions — and MPs themselves seldom tackle the issue of grooming gangs, preferring to leave it to local government and local newspapers.
Indeed, Breitbart London contacted the then-five contenders to succeed Boris Johnson as Tory leader and Prime Minister in July after Labour councillors blocked a call from Tory councillors for an inquiry into grooming gangs in Oldham to ask if they would commission one, and not one of them responded.
Breitbart London also asked the IOPC if it had “ever found fault with or recommended sanctions against specific officers” following grooming gang inquiries after this latest investigation into GMP officers was dropped, but this inquiry has also been ignored.
Director Noonan did say that the IOPC had “identified several areas of potential learning for GMP to consider” in its official statement on its investigation being dropped, but a downgrade from the standard ‘lessons have been learned’ line following grooming gangs scandals to ‘lessons could be learned’ is likely to prove cold comfort to victims.
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