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London Police Chief Threatens To Jail Americans Over Speech

Police Chief Threatens To Jail Americans Over Free Speech

byAnastasia Boushee
August 11, 2024

The chief of the London Metropolitan Police Department has threatened to extradite Americans and throw them in jail for speech.

While speaking with Sky News, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley insinuated that he somehow had the authority to jail people outside of the U.K. for expressing themselves in a way that he disagrees with.

The conversation began in response to the ongoing protests — and subsequent riots — throughout the U.K. over rampant migrant crime. Migrants and their children, the majority of whom are Muslim, have been caught grooming and raping children throughout the U.K., but have gotten almost no prison time.

Meanwhile, people in the U.K. who speak out against migrant crime have been given lengthy prison sentences.

The protests began in response to a mass stabbing attack committed by a now-18-year-old man born to Rwandan parents in Britain. The murderer, who was 17 at the time of his crime, went on a mass stabbing spree at a children’s Taylor Swift-themed party that left three young girls dead and several more wounded, including a man who courageously protected the children and was critically wounded, but survived. It appears that this senseless violence was the final straw for many U.K. citizens, as protests swept across Europe and quickly grew destructive, as many Europeans are tired of being second-class citizens.

The Muslim migrants have responded with violent demonstrations of their own, though this doesn’t appear to bother the London Metropolitan Police.

Rather than acknowledging that the government, the court and the police’s double standards all caused the riots, the U.K. is only further cracking down on citizens’ speech — and now foreigners too, apparently.

“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Rowley told Sky News.

The network’s reporter then asked the London police commissioner to explain what this warning means, while falsely claiming that high-profile figures “the likes of Elon Musk” have been “whipping up the hatred.” Musk has not, in fact, been inciting hatred, he has just been calling out the human rights violations committed by the British government against peaceful citizens who dare to speak freely.

The Sky News reporter then took it further, asking what the Metropolitan Police would do “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”

Rowley responded: “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”

Americans brutally mocked his comments on social media, laughing while pointing out that he has no jurisdiction over a country that actually allows its people to be free — while also joking that this would be the one issue to unite Americans.

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Anastasia Boushee
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