Met Police confirm Kneecap will not be prosecuted following ‘Kill your MP’ terror probe
https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/met-police-kneecap-not-prosecuted
by CaseyEffingRyback
Met Police confirm Kneecap will not be prosecuted following ‘Kill your MP’ terror probe
https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/met-police-kneecap-not-prosecuted
by CaseyEffingRyback
37 comments
In the same country where an online joke in (very) poor taste can land you in prison. And no, I’m not talking about *her*
>A range of offences were considered as part of the investigation. However, given the time elapsed between the events in the video and the video being brought to police attention, any potential summary only offences were beyond the statutory time limit for prosecution.
TLDR: probably because their words didn’t incite any actual violence, so the actual impact of their words is minimal
Can’t fathom this. Their lack of balls in rightfully prosecuting hate crime here will just lead to the right pushing two-tier justice rhetoric and it is hard to argue otherwise.
We will end up with Reform in power and will deserve the consequences. Why public bodies cannot show more strength and avoid this mess?
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And just like that, no one ever spoke of them again.
No but seriously, it’s been way overblown.
People have been put in prison for placing stickers, hateful tweets (which were deleted), and messages in private group chats. But this gets a pass?
Hahahaha, done nothing but boost their profile massively, who could have seen this coming?
The funniest thing is their comments were ages ago and no one cared, it wasn’t done by them recently to drum up some controversy for exposure. It was only dragged up after their comments against Israel at Coachella to try and silence them and has instead backfired massively.
“However, given the time elapsed between the events in the video and the video being brought to police attention, any potential summary only offences were beyond the statutory time limit for prosecution.”
So if a Jihadist Imam has a video surface a few years after he made it calling for death and destruction in the UK he’s fine as long as you can’t draw a straight line between his words and actual violence? Just trying to update my policing tier list to see if Irish Republicans are above or below Muslims.
This country is so fucking funny.
All that bluff and bluster for literally nothing.
Like a state mandated finger-wagging.
Is this that two tier policing I hear so much about?
But post rap lyrics verbatim with the n word in them, and it’s fine time…
Ah sweet sweet consistency of application of the law. /s
Remember people went to prison for typing hurty words on the internet. This guy openly shouted vile stuff to crowds of people, which incites violence and hatred. Yet he wont be prosecuted. Prime example of two tier justice system
Insane speech law’s inevitably lead to selective enforcement with only political dissidents being prosecuted.
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They’re literally begging to be arrested and if they are they’ll milk the hell out of it. It’d be far easier to just revoke the licence for live music at Glastonbury.
Its crazy how this isn’t arrestable offence but I poop joke might be online
When Kier Starmer came out saying it was inappropriate for Kneecap to play Glastonbury, I was a bit surprised. They had not been convicted of a crime here.
What we do have though, is Chris Brown playing Stadiums (he played Tottenham stadium recently), when he shouldn’t even be allowed in the country! Didn’t see Starmer saying anything there. Guess he was jumping on the bandwagon too.
No two-tier justice in the UK of course, look away now..
As long as they don’t write it on social media they won’t prosected… 🤪
The public and festival support for these scrotes is disappointing.
Saying “kill your MP” is fucking shitty, especially considering how many times that’s happened in the last 10 years. To good people who were passionate about serving their community, just doing their job – a job most people wouldn’t have the balls to do. Especially these guys.
They’re another bunch of edgy attention whores that are going to get someone hurt by their shock marketing.
posting a meme saying coming to a town near you with asylum seekers on a boat. Prison. openly supporting hammas. crickets.
Labours starting commisions looking into online radicalisation. This kind of shit is what does it.
They didn’t post it on the internet they just shouted it at a bunch of people so why would they face any repercussions
You can help feel that there is one rule for one and another for others. How is this any different for tweeting about burning down migrants hotels? We had had MPs killed.
A lot of deleted messages. Here’s a message that’s not deleted!
So, everyone wanking themselves senseless about ‘two tier policing’ realises a member of Kneecap was literally charged with a crime for something else like 3 weeks ago, right?
Which is kind of hard to square with the idea they’re being treated lenienantly because they’re ‘radical leftists’ (as if this wasn’t self-evidently a completely ludicrous idea anyway).
Two Tier justice in this country. Sorry but it clearly is.
This just emboldens reforms two tier justice talking point
Thank god they didn’t criticise Islam otherwise they would be in jail
Lol, the one time they bow to actual public opinion.
Given the majority of the population would be perfectly content see the whole lot liquidated.
It is now fully legal, within the UK to, and I quote “Kill your MP” maybe it will be more illegal if you directly name this MP, but now, via the police own admission its now fully legal to incite terrorism and murder another.
Perhaps, if we test it, we can directly name this MP, we surely can then directly name another person, perhaps a Police officer name? Or would the police be scared of the can of worms that opens up?
Why are the police in the UK, disgracefully shit?
Not biassed at all.
Those “stirring up hatred online” get years in prison but literally calling for the deaths of people is fine.
No two tier policing though, remember that…
Incitements to violence aren’t a thing now then? Even though we’ve had 2 MPs murdered in recent memory.
Lots of free publicity for Kneecap. It was all of bit if a farce wasn’t it.
I used to think two tier policing was a stupid rightist talking point, now I see it’s true
This was the absolute obvious finale to this shitscapade. They’re punks, the same as The Pistols. Police need to stop brown nosing the Daily Mail and do something useful.
Not surprised at all. They’re the most obvious example of State approved dissent I’ve seen.
They’re bending over backwards to make them seem edgy and promote them.
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