Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Police the Gestapo...Go To Jail

Well this one doesn't deal with our Gestapo here in the states, although i would bet that this happens much more than we would like to admit, it deals the British Gestapo.

A British man, Andrew Carter, saw a police van backing up and going the wrong way on a one way street. This, as it does for us here in the States to see a cop running a red light or speeding for no reason, rather infuriated Mr Carter. So he jumped out of his car and took a picture of the event.

As he was photographing the incident, the van came past him. The policeman in the van cursed out Mr Carter as the van passed by, saying "F... Off, This is Police Business". The van then came to a stop, the cursing policeman got out of the van and confronted Mr Carter. The police smacked the camera out of his hands and proceeded to arrest him. They arrested him for being drunk, resisting arrest, and assualting the officer with the camera.

He was forced to spend 4 hours in the local detention facility.

However no charges were filed in the incident. The officer in question has apologized for the incident, but no punishment was given to the officer for his actions.

It is amazing how those that police and keep the peace feel like they are not under the same laws as everyone else.

Viva Liberty!

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