{"id":1582827,"date":"2022-08-01T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582827"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:32:38","slug":"watch-british-police-handcuff-man-for-retweeting-post-that-made-someone-anxious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-british-police-handcuff-man-for-retweeting-post-that-made-someone-anxious\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: British Police Handcuff Man For Retweeting Post That Made Someone Anxious"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-british-police-handcuff-man-for-retweeting-post-that-made-someone-anxious%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582827&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>British law enforcement officials placed a man in handcuffs late last week for allegedly retweeting a post on Twitter that made another person anxious.<\/p>\n<p>Army veteran Darren Brady, 51, was placed in handcuffs by Hampshire Police for retweeting a meme of pride flags that were displayed in a way that depicted a swastika, the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11066477\/Veteran-arrested-causing-anxiety-retweeting-meme-swastika-Pride-flags.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brady asks officers in the video why he was placed in handcuffs, to which one officer responded, \u201cIt didn\u2019t have to come to this at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell us why you escalated it to this level because I don\u2019t understand,\u201d Brady responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone has been caused anxiety based upon your social media post,\u201d the officer responded. \u201cThat is why you have been arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Someone has been caused anxiety based on your social media post, that\u2019s why you\u2019ve being arrested&#8221; \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HantsPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HantsPolice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read it &#038; weep!\ud83d\ude2d <\/p>\n<p>The \u2018unknown\u2019 can no longer be bullied. You now have a direct line to a group of dedicated people who will help you.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BadLawTeam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BadLawTeam<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreFairCop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WeAreFairCop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qbHcNNEBs8\">pic.twitter.com\/qbHcNNEBs8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Reclaim Party (@thereclaimparty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereclaimparty\/status\/1553383256439115776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another man, former police officer Harry Miller, was also placed in handcuffs for allegedly trying to prevent Brady from being arrested. Miller told The Daily Wire that about seven police officers were present by the time the altercation was over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a far left and alt-left work around of law. It is a way of controlling people without bothering with the law, without bothering with the courts, without bothering with anything,\u201d he told The Daily Wire. \u201cIt is just scaring the shit out of people so that they don\u2019t say what they think. And it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donna Jones, police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Hampshire and Isle of Wight, responded to the incident, which went viral online, by criticizing her own police force for the overshow force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am concerned about both the proportionality and necessity of the police\u2019s response to this incident,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWhen incidents on social media receive not one but two visits from police officers, but burglaries and non-domestic break-ins don\u2019t always get a police response, something is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-62352502\">reported<\/a> that Brady has since been released and is not facing any further action.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the police force said, \u201cWe are engaging further with our police and crime commissioner to make sure that we deploy our resource in a way that reflects need in our local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British law enforcement officials placed a man in handcuffs late last week for allegedly retweeting a post on Twitter that made another person anxious. Army veteran Darren Brady, 51, was placed in handcuffs by Hampshire Police for retweeting a meme of pride flags that were displayed in a way that depicted a swastika, the Daily &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1582913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}