Picture shows the two West Midlands Police officers at the door of the home of a teenager. This is from heavily edited video that gives a completely different explanation for this incident than the police source.
Yesterday many British users of the X platform expressed alarm and upset at video of two female police from the West Midlands force apparently hassling a mother at her front door over what was claimed to be a social media post that her daughter viewed. A lot of people took it at face value, including myself for a while, although I could not shake the possibility that this was some sort of skit or parody. I had to wonder whether this was real or fake as too often these days it is becoming difficult to ascertain what is parody when it comes to the UK police forces and what is a genuine record of the conduct of the increasingly low grade members of Britain’s ‘enshittified’ police forces.
The video, which is on closer examination very heavily edited by whoever uploaded it, purports to show two of Britain’s ‘finest’ DEI plod hassling a woman over a social media post that her daughter was supposed to have viewed. The video, which is linked and/or embedded below, went absolutely viral in the UK. It attracted comment from thousands of people including those who should have learned to wait and see what this story was really about.
There was more to this story according to officers of West Midlands Police. The edited video is but a minute or so excerpted and highly edited from a longer ten minute video. Corroboration of this claim comes, according to West Midlands Police, from the officers bodycams. West Midlands Police spokespersons also stated that this was not a police visit regarding viewing a social media post but something much more serious, that of one teenager impersonating another and using a social media account set up in that impersonated teenager’s name to distribute what has been called by the police ‘indecent materials.’
The police might well be telling the truth about the nature of this case and people may well have jumped to the incorrect conclusion after seeing the highly edited version of this video that is doing the rounds. This video was in my view a poisonous seed, a video that purports to be one thing when it is really something quite different entirely.
In a properly functioning society, not Britain of course which is a nation that is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, those who would have received or seen this highly edited video would not have jumped to the conclusion that the police were in the wrong with regards to the doorstep encounter. In a properly run nation or society those who saw this online would if not immediately be on the side of the police but would at least question the video’s validity and provenance. This poisonous seed should have fallen on barren ground and should not have gone so viral so quickly and been promoted by so many people who should have maybe thought about whether this video was a true representation of what happened or not.
Sadly Britain is not a properly functioning society where slurs against the police and false stories about police hassling people over social media comments are treated as a pile of bollocks. Because of a long history of police arresting and the Crown Prosecution Service dragging people through the courts for social media comments the idea that two policewomen would hassle a teenager about what social media posts they viewed is not something that a lot of people could put their hands on their hearts and say is not happening. Britain and its police forces and prosecuting authorities have a truly appalling record for arrests and prosecutions for ‘speech crimes’. At least 15 people per day are being arrested in the UK for ‘speech crimes’ and whilst some of these arrests may be linked to stuff that falls outside of reasonable free speech considerations, such as threats to kill or harm for example, you can probably be reasonably sure that a lot of the interventions into people’s lives over online and offline comments are anything like that.
Over the last decade or so Britons have been regaled with completely true and authenticated stories of police and prosecutors zealously going after ‘speech crimes’. A joke about ‘blowing up’ an airport that was clearly a joke, a teenager prosecuted for quoting a rap lyric which contained the word ‘nigga’ in a tribute to a dead friend, people gaoled for saying ‘who the fuck is Allah’on a demonstration, a person imprisoned for accusing a high profile Islamic activist as a ‘mendacious grievance mongering taqiyya artist’ and the constant arrests and harassment, at the behest of trans rights activists, by police of men and women who are critical of the gender identity cult, have all been part of every Britons life and knowledge. There’s all this and much more if you care to seek out the information on these cases.
This sort of speech criminalisation has been so common and so widely known among Britons that it is no surprise that the poison seed of the edited video of the visit by the cops to the teenager at the centre of this story fell on fertile ground. So many Britons have been subjected to police and justice system harassment over speech issues that it is sadly believable that the police would harass a teenager over a social media post that they may have either read or shared.
Although the case featured in the video in question was not as it was made out to be by those who shared it, it is sadly not impossible for such an encounter with bullying cops rocking up to hassle someone about a social media post or social media activity to actually happen. We’ve seen so many examples of police acting as a goon squad for trans rights activists, race activists, Moslems and others and using police powers and the justice system to silence those who say awkward things about these groups. There has been so much speech criminalisation and so many Britons criminalised because of speech that this video looked all too plausible for many.
Once the video had gained a lot of social media traction the police put out a rebuttal statement challenging the interpretation of the incident in the original video and giving more details about the case details that had not been included in the original video or commentary about it. In a functioning high trust society many people would have looked at this rebuttal and said ‘well OK then the police have given me the facts of the matter that’s the end of it’. Unfortunately in the UK distrust of the police and their statements is now growing beyond just a few extremists. Because of publicity surrounding egregious examples of police misconduct, for example over the issue of the police inaction against Islamic Rape Gangs, the mass kneeling by officers after the death of George ‘Fentanyl’ Floyd, the biased policing of pro-Hamas hate marches and the fanaticism shown by some senior police officers for the cult of Trans, trust in the police is falling. It’s not all the public who feel this way but distrust of the police and a feeling that they are biased towards some groups and causes and not others is starting to be expressed not just online but in real life.
This fertile ground for poison seeds such as the edited video of the doorstep cop confrontation with West Midlands Police officers did not spring up from nowhere. It didn’t spring into existence without cause. It is the police and justice systems themselves that have created and nurtured the fertile ground that allow false stories like the one I’m concerned with today to take root and grow. The willingness of the police to kick in doors because someone from a group that has been designated as having a ‘protected characteristic’ has been insulted or discomforted by words that don’t meet the the threshold of incitement to violence and the courts to sentence speech offenders to long periods in gaol have created an environment where people expect the police to behave like censorious commissars in some benighted Communist hell hole. We have grown to expect British police forces to behave like ideological enforcers therefore a lot of people accepted as true and honest a video that turned out to be neither.
West Midlands Police are in my view quite right to be aghast at what they call misinformation about this particular case. However they and other police forces should sit down and take a good look at how they have contributed to a social environment where British people expect the police to behave in the manner depicted in the original heavily edited video of the two police officers at the door of a teenager’s home. The police and justice systems have in my view played a major part in creating the sort of expectation among the public that the police will be censorious arseholes and trust in the police over speech issues and trust in the accuracy of the sort of rebuttal statement put out by West Midlands Police will not come back unless police forces stop acting in ways that take a hammer to the public’s trust and their natural right to speak freely.
Links
Link to video
https://x.com/i/status/1969675181258940900
Link to police statement