What is wrong with UK police?!

[Herman30]

Man arrested in the UK for posing with gun more than 4,000 miles away in the US​

Man arrested in the UK for posing with a gun while he was on holiday in the US

Jon Richelieu-Booth was never charged.

metro.co.uk

So now it is forbidden to pose holding a weapon in UK allthough the act happened in a country where it is perfectly legal. There is so much I would like to say but..........Why have UK (once a proud empire ruling half the world) become such a (can´t find the right words)......

​

 

[TeeDee]

Off shoot of cancel culture and those that implement it.

 

[Pattree]

Can anyone supply the background information in the subject and context of this arrest please?

Our police force isn’t stupid and it is stretched beyond capacity. It wouldn’t spend time on this without thought. It wasn’t a constable’s decision. Someone considered this decision and someone was dispatched to question this man. The result was an arrest. An arrest isn’t a conviction.

Of course it might just be a mistake - but no one here makes those.

 

[slingback]

Someone's made a complaint(weather warranted or not) of stalking and feeling threatened by post of the chap with firearms, the police would have maybe checked and found he didn't own them on the register and so it would seem at the first instance paid him a courtesy visit. Then something else happened to make them come back and arrest him and then also charge him with a public order offence for another post. The story says the charges were dropped by cps so most likely its a spat and someone is jumping to conclusions. I would rather that the police investigated than did nothing, as to the escalation that needs both sides of the story which isnt there so no idea but it doesn't happen without reason. The news story is lazy, incomplete, one sided so my completely unfounded and un evidenced guess is that this guy maybe has an axe to grind and a reporter or editor maybe has one too? But who knows.

 

[Broch]

Don't believe anything you read in Metro about police, firearms, or ... anything actually

The more important question, is why are you reading this drivel?

 

[grainweevil]

The news story is lazy, incomplete, one sided...

I got that from "Metro".

It worries me how many grown adults fall for this click bait stuff.

 

[Wildgoose]

I would imagine the stalking element prompted the arrest, as well as the other post which he has chosen not to include in the article

 

[C_Claycomb]

The opening post could be taken as trying to generate a reaction and that the subject could be political. Let’s not go down that route. However I think there is value to discuss it a bit.

I saw this in the news, reported by a US pro gun channel, and thought there was more than they were saying.

It appears the matter was not about posing with guns as such, but someone feeling that there was a threat implied, so social media crime rather than firearm crime.

Maybe a useful reminder to be careful for any of us here who might post photos on other social media that include edged tools, bows or guns of any sort.

How do folk feel about the quality of reporting in The Telegraph?
Not all the details because it doesn’t have the side from whoever raised a complaint…but that is the norm now.

Access Restricted

Any shooters will have cringed when seeing how he was holding the guns. More danger to himself that what he was “aiming” at!

 

[Chris]

How do folk feel about the quality of reporting in The Telegraph?

As bad as, if not worse than, the Metro.

 

[Tengu]

I still havent got over the article they wrote about anime. This was over fifteen years ago.

It was horrifying.

 

[grainweevil]

How do folk feel about the quality of reporting in The Telegraph?

It's excellent for lining parrot cages.

 

[TLM]

It's excellent for lining parrot cages.

Are you sure parrots (some of the more intelligent avians) do not feel being put down?

 

[grainweevil]

Probably not as put down as the Telegraph feels having its content Jackson Pollock'd with bird droppings, I imagine.

 

[slaine_23]

It's excellent for lining parrot cages.

How would you know when it needs changed?

 

[Falstaff]

Does it still identify as a Parrot?

 

[C_Claycomb]

Chap still has the posts of him holding guns up on LinkedIn if anyone is interested to look.

 

[Kadushu]

Private Eye referred to "former newspaper, the Telegraph" and I spat out my coffee!

 

[Wildgoose]

Chap still has the posts of him holding guns up on LinkedIn if anyone is interested to look.

Kind of gives you an idea of his personality..
unless his career is linked to guns of course, in which case his next renewal may be interesting!

 

[Harold Godwinson]

It's the new police tactic, arrest him, ruin his life, then drop all charges... In the mean time it stops everyone doing the same, mass fear without filling prisons!! Just a shame they can't apply the same rule to all the Afghans et el coming from countries where AK47s are given out like sweeties...
Oh silly me I forgot they take priority over UK citizens as Bridget Phillipson point out... Just the wrong priority is all.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Suggest opening in a private window... Gar too many cookies and adverts.

UK police reportedly arrested man who posted photo holding gun during US visit: What we know

Jon Richelieu-Booth posted three photos holding or standing near guns from a trip to the U.S. and faced consequences when he returned to the U.K.

www.snopes.com