If you are willing to report someone who’s in this country illegally simply because they’re here illegally, you are on the same level as the people who reported Anne Frank to the gestapo, she was considered illegal too
How is this post tagged casual (non-political)?
Give it time. Scotland needs a Luton or a Birmingham, that ivory pedestal will crumble real quick.
People have bought into the division. It’s why we need to be so careful with all topics right now, to not completely divide over them otherwise the far right wins.
I remember this. It was about five streets away from where I live (a busy main road included in that so I wasn’t aware of it at the time, otherwise I would have joined them). I was walking that way an hour or so after it resolved. Remember getting the gossip plus reading more after it, because I was proud of my area for not taking any crap; a big part of it was it was the first day of Eid and basically a dawn raid for two men who had been here for several years (I think that they had been).
Immigration had turned up a bit after 6am to take two men into custody and possible deportation. It was on the first day of Eid, the men (from what I heard) were Muslim, and there is a relatively high Muslim population in the neighbourhood (not a majority).
A few people were walking by and saw what was happening and just were pissed off that these two members of our community (they had been here for years, from what I read). One of them crawled under their van so they couldn’t drive off! 😂 others went to spread word. The men who had been detained had been put in the van that now had someone lying under it.
Didn’t take long for word of mouth to get round and people started turning up and blocking the street. It’s a narrow/ish residential street so wasn’t stopping people driving to where they needed to be, didn’t actually require many people to do it either. Other than chanting I’m pretty sure it was peaceful, despite people being angry.
The police did show up, but made it clear they were there to ensure safety and not to help immigration. Eventually immigration let the men go as they realised this was not a good way to go about detaining them.
I don’t know what happened to the men later, but a dawn raid on the first day Eid of men whose neighbours liked them was particularly inflammatory to the community.
Jesus Christ, people who actually tried to explain what happened got downvoted to oblivion, this is mad no wonder they locked the comments off.
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If you are willing to report someone who’s in this country illegally simply because they’re here illegally, you are on the same level as the people who reported Anne Frank to the gestapo, she was considered illegal too
How is this post tagged casual (non-political)?
Give it time. Scotland needs a Luton or a Birmingham, that ivory pedestal will crumble real quick.
People have bought into the division. It’s why we need to be so careful with all topics right now, to not completely divide over them otherwise the far right wins.
I remember this. It was about five streets away from where I live (a busy main road included in that so I wasn’t aware of it at the time, otherwise I would have joined them). I was walking that way an hour or so after it resolved. Remember getting the gossip plus reading more after it, because I was proud of my area for not taking any crap; a big part of it was it was the first day of Eid and basically a dawn raid for two men who had been here for several years (I think that they had been).
Immigration had turned up a bit after 6am to take two men into custody and possible deportation. It was on the first day of Eid, the men (from what I heard) were Muslim, and there is a relatively high Muslim population in the neighbourhood (not a majority).
A few people were walking by and saw what was happening and just were pissed off that these two members of our community (they had been here for years, from what I read). One of them crawled under their van so they couldn’t drive off! 😂 others went to spread word. The men who had been detained had been put in the van that now had someone lying under it.
Didn’t take long for word of mouth to get round and people started turning up and blocking the street. It’s a narrow/ish residential street so wasn’t stopping people driving to where they needed to be, didn’t actually require many people to do it either. Other than chanting I’m pretty sure it was peaceful, despite people being angry.
The police did show up, but made it clear they were there to ensure safety and not to help immigration. Eventually immigration let the men go as they realised this was not a good way to go about detaining them.
I don’t know what happened to the men later, but a dawn raid on the first day Eid of men whose neighbours liked them was particularly inflammatory to the community.
Jesus Christ, people who actually tried to explain what happened got downvoted to oblivion, this is mad no wonder they locked the comments off.
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