Five armed cops
Well this is horrific. Glinner writes:
The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two—five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets.
He shares the tweets. One concludes with “if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” Another captions a demo with “A photo you can smell.” The last one says “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck em.”
At Heathrow police station, my belt, bag, and devices were confiscated. Then I was shown into a small green-tiled cell with a bunk, a silver toilet in the corner and a message from Crimestoppers on the ceiling next to a concave mirror that was presumably there to make you reflect on your life choices.
Ffs!
Five cops! Arresting him at Heathrow! Putting him in a cell! Because tweets!
I have to wonder if a single UK cop – let alone five – has ever arrested a man for tweeting violent threats against women.
Surely a more normal response would be something like a parking ticket, or a request to stop by for a chat, in a country where rape goes uninvestigated and unpunished.
Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200—stroke territory. The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life! So I was escorted to A&E, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation.
The doctors suggested the high blood pressure was stress-related, combined with long-haul travel and lack of movement. I feel it may also have been a contributing factor that I have now spent eight years being targeted by trans activists working in tandem with police in a dedicated, perseistent harassment campaign because I refuse to believe that lesbians have cocks.
It’s insane.
It’s so horrible. He doesn’t deserve this. He doesn’t deserve any of it. Can’t we just wake up from this nightmare?
There must be some kind of system, right? Such a thing as wrongful arrest? It’s simply NOT POSSIBLE that three irritable tweets require any kind of arrest at all, let alone 5 cops grabbing him at Heathrow. In other words can he sue the pants off them?
I honestly don’t know. I’ve been crying all night. Nothing makes sense anymore.
Ugh I’m sorry. It’s horrible.
I guess the good news is he’s going to clean up when he sues them. (The bad news is the taxpayers will be paying for his settlement.)
I keep thinking that things like this are going to peak the average person who thinks the ideology is just about “being kind and letting people live their lives however they want.” Maybe it has or will.
Or maybe the casual observer thinks you ought to go to jail for not being kind and letting people live their lives however they want. I can no longer tell.
I saw the article describing the three twixes. The second one is an aerial shot of what I presume to be a pro-trans crowd. The caption says “a photo you can smell.” I don’t get it. What’s that supposed to mean, and why would it be considered violent?
The third twix says, “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck em.” I don’t see how that’s violent either. It’s just an opinion.