He later told BBC Newsnight that the officers had questioned his wife on why he had travelled to the Palestinian territory, who paid for his ticket and which charity he was helping.
A spokesperson for the Met said: “On 16 October, police officers responding to a report that a man was planning to travel to a war zone attended an address in north London where they spoke with one of the occupants.
“Having identified that the man had left the UK for humanitarian purposes, the officers signposted the occupant to current FCDO advice.”
How is that harassment or an attempt to silence them?
They didn’t need to question anyone.
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Guaranteed the name the cops were given had a Dr. designation before his name so they damn well knew they were visiting a physician.
#ACAB
Stop trying to import US BS to the UK. They have enough of their own shit to be dealing with.
You mean like when the UK police force were deemed institutionally racist[1]? Or that other time it was found to be institutionally racist[2]? Yeah we have some shit to deal with here in the UK.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/22/institutional-racism-britain-stephen-lawrence-inquiry-20-years
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report
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Is that polices role? I thought that was more border security. You think cops are going to find the sneaky terrorists? If he’d have said “I’m going to defend the motherland!!!” then do they arrest him? What charges and jerisdiction were they following here?
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Calling Four Lions a documentary is kinda funny
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In this case its this group of police’s role. They’re tied up with MI5 and Home Office. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_Terrorism_Policing
US has something similar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Terrorism_Task_Force
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Hopefully in London it’s better but you shouldn’t just take the cops word as fact.
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