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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 127 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Rofl, if this isn't bullshit, those cops must have either been bored out of their minds or just had a good sense of humor.

This is the law enforcement equivalent to a little kid yelling "BOO!" at you, and you pretending to be scared.

"Whaaaaat, you're arresting -meeee-?!?! Oh noooooo!"

[-] malo@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

Narrator voice: "it was bullshit"

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

You can inform a police officer that he or she is under citizen arrest. You can call the police and have an officer come out with the paperwork, which YOU have to sign. If the arrest is false, YOU are liable both criminally and civilly.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 115 points 9 months ago

No way this isn’t satire

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago

No apparently a video exists of this.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago

That I'd like to see. I'll get the popcorn

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[-] derf82@lemmy.world 97 points 9 months ago

I’ve been vaccinated for COVID 5 times over the last 3 years, and have received various vaccines over 41 years. Slowest. Euthanasia. Ever.

[-] TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You joke, but since you got the jab I can guarantee you will die.

(Just not any faster than normal...)

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Thank you for the reminder there is probably a new version I'm missing.

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[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

That's it, you have done it now. You are hereby attested!

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[-] sxan@midwest.social 72 points 9 months ago

As an American: I'm really sorry if we infected you with this particular brand of idiocy. If only there were a vaccine...

Someone's going to reply: education is, but I offer PragerU as counter-evidence. There's a quality scale in education, as well.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

Prager u isn't education, it's propaganda.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

You have to either watch them and think critically about the content or be "in the know" through our various lefty podcasters and what not though. Prager U does a decent job of hiding that it is propaganda imo. Though I don't know that I have ever watch a full video myself.

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[-] Shou@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Don't worry. My country's bible belt has been used in epidemic studies for measles long ago. It's not just 'Murica.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Now I'm curious where the Bible belt is in your country

[-] derf82@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I’m fairness, Andrew Wakefield is British.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I frequently have youtube up on my TV for background noise.

PragerU and those AI generated ads talking about free money are things I see far to frequently, and make me far too irrationally angry.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 9 months ago

Oh no mate, this is all our own madness.

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[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago

Anti-vax sovcit? Mark my words - with that level of conspiracism and entitled self-victimisation, they'll be a full-blown Nazi by the end of the year.

It's always the Jews with these fuckers.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Well if they didn't have fucking SPACE LASERS pointed at my favorite PIZZA PLACE.

Let's do the math here people. P. I. Z. Z. A. What ELSE has 2 Z's??? That's right. Nazzis. They're extra Nazi. And the only way to fight nazzis is with Nazïsm. We need all the Nazis we can get to fight the Jewish space cosmonauts, who will break open the fermament and send us all careening in to the great blue void.

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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

"Hey cops, I arrested some of your officers, come get them"

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[-] Lath@kbin.social 40 points 9 months ago

The situation is dumb, but citizen's arrest in general is covered by laws in some counties, UK being among them.
In specific situations, a random person on the street can arrest a criminal lawfully.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

And under the correct circumstances, you can even lawfully arrest a cop.

Technically. Good luck actually pulling it off.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Ah, but do they have the right to un-arrest?

[-] clif@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago

De-arrest*

You have to use the correct magic words or they don't work.

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[-] bigbluealien@kbin.social 21 points 9 months ago

This is the UK law for citizens arrest really the most important difference between this and a police arrest is the police can arrest you with the intention of finding out IF a crime has been commited, whereas you must know a crime has been commited by the person you're arresting, otherwise it's just kidnapp

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Absolutely, they can. I did it several times as a security person at Walmart. The biggest difference is that a citizen does not have immunity to being sued, and a citizen can not transport. You better be damn sure you're right, or you're getting sued into oblivion.

[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

American here, how do you de - arrest someone? Over here once you're arrested only a judge // jury can say you're not guilty, the person that made the arrest, or the police don't have any say in that part of the criminal justice system.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you're de-arrested you're not locked in a cell (custody). If you're released after questioning it's being de-arrested. If you're held in a cell during any of it you can't be de-arrested, you have to be "released without charge".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29784497

"de-arrested" is not technically the same as "released without charge". The key difference in terminology is whether the person is taken into custody and processed, says a spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/01/law.emmabrockes

TLDR:

  • Arrest - copper has you.
  • De-arrest - Copper lets go.
  • Released without charge - Released from police custody cell (jail) after an arrest.
[-] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Can't the AG just decline to prosecute and release you? Being arrested =/= being charged after all.

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[-] PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 9 months ago

It happens all the time. Officer makes the decision to arrest, puts the person in handcuffs and the car. A supervisor shows up, a story gets changed, or an officer finds out that something proves someone is lying, and the person is released. I've seen it happen when a non-violent offender had warrants, but it turned out they were having a kid's birthday party (discovered when the dad came out to check on the mom because she'd been outside 'smoking' for longer than usual).

Arrested is a step up from detention. Detention = you're not free to leave. Arrested = you are not free to go, you're coming with the officer to jail, and they have belief you committed a crime that you will be charged with (or have a warrant, thus already charged). There is nothing that says once arrested an officer can't take off handcuffs and let you go. There really isn't that much distinguishing the two in the law, except for statutes about identifying yourself (where I live, anyway). My laws use the word custody in far greater amounts than arrest.

[-] iamanurd@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As a fellow US citizen, my American brain can also not comprehend this. How do you de-shoot someone?!

[-] BenadrylChunderHatch@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Police can release without charge.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 28 points 9 months ago

I can only assume he said "you're arrested".

[-] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 15 points 9 months ago

He probably wrote it in red ink at 45 degrees on the cops’ shadow.

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's exactly what he did. He just kept asking one officer to arrest the other officer and they all refused and just stared at him like he was a nutjob.

Eventually he just declared they were arrested.

https://www.unilad.com/news/antivaxxer-wants-police-officer-arrested-over-genocide-20220121

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[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

By the (lack) of logic of the antivaxx, we all should be dead.... 2 years ago.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I'm trying to figure out their logic, they identify as a non-U.S. citizen, but believe they have jurisdiction to make arrests in another country? What is the plan? To detain or abduct members of a foreign country? I'm fairly certain that would be considered an act of war. Better make sure he isn't armed or he'll trigger article 5 of NATO and he'll be at war with several countries.

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[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

It will happen next Tuesday at 1pm.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

It's been 3 years since we all started getting vaccinated. Surely we'd all be dead by now.

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

The video footage followed?

[-] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I really really really wish these people would try this to cops in America. The more dead anti-vaccine morons, the better.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

I strongly suspect the UK officers came to have a laugh at their expense when told some idiots were trying to "arrest" the police.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

"Mate, you need to come round here and see this wanker"

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago
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[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Are these arrested police in the room with us now?

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