Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
British policing has reached new depths of absurdity and authoritarianism. Officers are inventing pre-crimes, harassing citizens for lawful filming or standing in public, and deploying to pubs to warn people off tweeting about councillors.
All while the same forces stand guard over brand-new taxpayer-funded houses handed to migrants and turn a blind eye to patterns of two-tier enforcement that have defined recent years.
In one widely shared incident, a female officer was caught on camera confronting a man peacefully filming in a public space.
?UK Police Threaten Arrest for "Future Crime" – Minority Report Comes to Britain
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UK police officer threatens to arrest a man for peacefully filming in public, because his presence "might" wind people up and cause someone else to lose their temper.
This is straight-up Minority... pic.twitter.com/ODGxUvNYTm
In the footage she claims his mere presence "might" wind people up and lead someone else to lose their temper, threatening arrest to "prevent a breach of the peace."
No actual crime had occurred. No law was being broken. As the man pointed out, the logic is straight out of the dystopian story Minority Report: punish the law
