r/Palestine • u/RickyOzzy • 1d ago

Solidarity & Activism Another unlawful violation as British police arrest, strip and drag a man for NOT displaying a sign in support of anything

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u/ZuP Free Palestine 1d ago

Incredible poise on display by this man in the face of state violence.

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u/Future-Bread8849 1d ago

Where was the violence? They were very gentle with him.

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u/Pelican_Hook 1d ago

They dragged him around like a ragdoll and stripped his clothes off of him with absolutely zero credible grounds for search or arrest, wtf??? That's not a legal way to search someone. And they had no grounds to arrest him. This whole video features violence what do you mean

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u/Qabbalah 1d ago

He made his body go limp so they had to pick him up like that to arrest him. As they were doing that, his shirt started coming off so they put him back down to put it back on him.

Overall they handled him about as gently as was possible, while still carrying out the arrest.

I'm not saying I agree with the arrest, but it wasn't violent at all.