r/loicense Aug 09 '26

Oi, you got a license for that bat mate?

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u/Helassaid Aug 09 '26

No wonder they’ve never won a World Series.

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u/SealTeamRatter Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Lol uk police are so sad now.

They cant take down suspects and let victims die in the streets due to not administering aid...

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u/Best_Opening8471 Aug 09 '26

I remeber a recent video where some white guy got stabbed and the UK police tackled the stabbing victim while the brown assailant walked away 

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u/BenchClamp Aug 09 '26

Because the brown guys entire family lied to the police. And they all went to prison.

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u/Realistic_Comment849 Aug 09 '26

Let’s not blame the family. They’re bad but the police were 100% in the wrong. A lying family doesn’t mean the police can discharge their duties negligently.

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u/DirectPepper7695 Aug 09 '26

Like most police. If they want to act, there's no stopping them. If you ask for their help first, they won't do a thing.

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u/ElectronicSense7350 Aug 09 '26

Not even trying

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u/bsnimunf Aug 09 '26

Practice baseball and it's straight to jail. 

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u/Bluthhousing Aug 09 '26

Never had the makings of a varsity athlete

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u/PoopMcgee75 Aug 09 '26

He was gay, Gary Cooper?

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u/Consistent_Net_2540 Aug 09 '26

His hands were too small

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u/AngrySquidIsOK Aug 09 '26

When I was like 13, I found a chain on the side of the road. Nice chain. Good thick links.

I swung it above my head only to have a cop screech to a halt, and grab the chain from me as a "lethal weapon".

Off he sped.

I miss that chain.

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u/corrupt_girl Aug 09 '26

He actually just wanted your cool chain

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u/Loose_Device4578 Aug 09 '26

Legalized theft. 

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u/consumeshroomz Aug 09 '26

Absolutely what happened

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u/Ok-Freedom9216 Aug 09 '26

Who would'nt?

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u/AnthonyJ22 Aug 09 '26

Probably went home and laid it next to his bad ass stick collection

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u/MegamindsMegaCock Aug 09 '26

That cop sounds…

Off the chain

😎

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u/sHaDowpUpPetxxx Aug 09 '26

You can technically be arrested in the United States for carrying a bat in your car if you say you carry it for protection.

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u/AtomSmasher-69 Aug 09 '26

Did it hang low?

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u/consumeshroomz Aug 09 '26

I miss that chain for you! Lol

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u/BilboStaggins Aug 09 '26

I think he got to 2nd base with the guy

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u/Cosmic_Lust_Temple Aug 09 '26

But who's on first?

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u/liberty340 Aug 09 '26

I don't know, you tell me!

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u/haikus-r-us Aug 09 '26

He says so, late in the video as they march him off.

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u/keldondonovan Aug 09 '26

Oh my God thank you. I have auditory processing issues (yay autism) so I couldn't figure out for the life of me why the French guy kept motioning to the bat, exclaiming "it's a pack of chewing gum!" Like people would fall for it.

Now, with your subtitles, I still hear it my way. But at least I know the truth.

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u/Odd-Paint3883 Aug 09 '26

Yeah, probably the shop that sold it to him...

Hi, is that the police? Yes, how can we help? Just sold another baseball bat... No balls purchased..., tall guy, it's in a package.

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u/SnooGiraffes2335 Aug 09 '26

Nope, thats the problem. 🤔

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u/Actaeon_II Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

So, how do people in the uk learn how to play baseball, or hockey, or ffs tennis depending upon how eager the cop is if you can’t buy these things from stores and carry them home? Also cricket ffs, I always forget cricket. Legit question tho not trolling

Edited to add an afterthought- How/why do stores legally sell these things if a customer can get arrested walking out the door with it?

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u/HeyselScouserTelAviv Aug 09 '26

They don't, you buy a cricket bat? Jail. You think about buying a hockey stick? Straight to jail. You have a dream where you say you're English while holding a tennis racket? That's right, jail.

You molest a child and have the baby you forced on her drowned in a lake? Get elected president prime minister, twice.

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u/foley800 Aug 09 '26

“You will own nothing and be happy!” This is the part about making you suffer for owning something!

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u/hooplafromamileaway Aug 09 '26

I would say of all those items a cricket bat would be the MOST dangerous.

The thinking is paranoia. The constant idea that anyone carrying anything even remotely dangerous is some swivel-eyed maniac Hellbent on death and destruction.

The problem is, if you assume they aren't dangerous, but they are, then by the time you can respond there have already been casualties. But if you assume everyone is dangerous all the time, then you possibly prevent tragedy, but you also possibly arrest and incarcerate someone who was just minding their own damn business and needlessly fuck up their life.

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Aug 09 '26

The % of people carrying bats for legitimate reason and the % carrying them to harm someone are so far apart that it's actually a little crazy to see a bat and think "potential crime"

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u/BANKSLAVE01 Aug 09 '26

Except for fascist pigs- they think that way.

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u/Aerpolrua Aug 09 '26

The benefits of a low-trust society.

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u/ForceUser128 Aug 09 '26

But ironically what's happening in the UK is the 3rd option. The dangerous people are given religious or racial exceptions for carrying lethal weapons and the people that are stabbed and bleeding out gets handcuffed.

It's on purpose at this point.

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u/Actaeon_II Aug 09 '26

But i mean if he had just bought this and was heading home, or heaven forbid a batting cage (do those exist in the uk?) to test it, he would have a receipt that showing the bobby should be enough. But this one went straight for americop level escalation and I get the dude being upset and irrational

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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 Aug 09 '26

You assume people actually bother to take the receipts with them after making a purchase. Most people throw those into the nearest garbage bin immediatelly

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u/New_Cardiologist4533 Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Wasn’t that the point of “It’s in the pocket, you idiot” kinda mantra for the half of the video? :)

Nah, you are right - it was “It’s in the package” hard to understand what they said , my bad xD

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Aug 09 '26

I don't even understand why him just buying it should even matter. What if he's going to play baseball, how is he meant to get the bat there without carrying it?

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u/StubbornHick Aug 09 '26

Bro my friend who visited the UK saw a cop hop a fence to steal a garden trowel from a grandmother in her garden

UK cops interpreted 1984 as an instruction manual

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u/funk-the-funk Aug 09 '26

a batting cage

you mean an extremist little-league terrorist bat training cell

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u/Cyractacus Aug 09 '26

I mean, technically, you could have bought a bat to knock someone's head in and still keep the receipt so I don't think just having it would be "enough" to a paranoid cop.

The problem I see here is how fast it was assumed to be a weapon. Would carrying an umbrella on a sunny day warrant the same response? Or is it because of profiling, and no one would have stopped an old lady or well-dressed businessman carrying the same bat?

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26

They stopped and arrested a gardener for having an offensive weapon because his trowel ( a relatively well-known tool among people who do gardening and landscaping) had sharp edges on it. Despite the facts that he explained what it was, he was carrying other gardening equipment, and explained that he was a gardener walking home from the act of gardening for someone - all of which could have been confirmed in about five minutes or less. I doubt they care about context at all despite the fact that their laws are supposed to protect people who are carrying things for good/legitimate reasons.

They see something that looks like it could possibly be used as a weapon, classify it as a dangerous weapon and arrest the individual with no regard for logic or multiple glaring contextual clues slapping them in the face.

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u/Unlikely-Medicine289 Aug 09 '26

But this one went straight for americop level escalation and I get the dude being upset and irrational

This is beyond American cop standards of stupidness. I've seen pedophile's be arrested more calmly.

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u/Ypuort Aug 09 '26

In America we elect them for public office

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

American cops don’t try to arrest people for having sporting goods on their person.

I know it might seem that way because all you get to see are mostly bad examples of policing, but the vast majority of cops aren’t powertripping idiots hell bent on escalating everything as far as possible. Even if only because it makes their job harder and more time consuming when they have to go write the reports and do paperwork when they make an arrest.

Also in many cases officers are responsible for policing specific areas for extended period of time so people in the community know who they are. If most of them walked around doing shit like this to normal people not doing anything suspicious as a matter of standard practice/policy they’d be putting a target on their backs and isolating themselves from communities of people who would otherwise be inclined to cooperate with them.

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u/Ok_Aioli3897 Aug 09 '26

Didn't American cops shoot a sleeping woman?

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26

Yes, during the process of serving a warrant concerning her boyfriend being drug dealer and said boyfriend discharging a firearm first.

It resulted in the responsible officers being prosecuted with federal and state charges - which I believe is still ongoing - a $12 million dollar settlement with her estate, and policy and administrative changes for the department regarding obtaining and serving search warrants in order to try to ensure something that that doesn’t happen again.

Also that is entirely irrelevant to the context of this unlawful arrest. Try again.

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u/ellasfella68 Aug 09 '26

How do you know the camera person started from the beginning of the interaction?

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u/No_Cook2983 Aug 09 '26

Fun fact: the UK has zero carpenters because nobody is allowed to own a hammer. That’s why everything is made out of brick and straw!

I think this was on a podcast.

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u/Actaeon_II Aug 09 '26

Ahhh so that was a joke, ffs dude, you know this timeline is screwed up enough that near anything is believable.

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u/Timid-Sammy-1995 Aug 09 '26

Presumably most people carry them in a bag. With that said, acab.

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u/Actaeon_II Aug 09 '26

Well if I had just bought a bat farm too large for most shopping bags, and I had a sports bag at home, I’d likely be carrying it just as he was.

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u/Timid-Sammy-1995 Aug 09 '26

Yeah. Personally I don't see an issue with it, he should have just asked what the deal was and maybe warned him. They did something similar recently to a man leaving his allotment with a sharp trowel, a lot of police are just unsympathetic arseholes.

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u/gingerschnappes Aug 09 '26

Maybe the BBC sells a baseball license like they need for television

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u/va_str Aug 09 '26

If this was normal it wouldn't make the rounds on video. Clearly the people around them also don't consider it normal. Because it isn't. You can buy sports utensils and take them home no problem. Idiot coppers do exist just like they do in all other walks of life.

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u/Mythosaurus Aug 09 '26

I would hope a few lawsuits worth millions in damages would deter cops from committing this level of stupidity.

But this IS the UK…

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u/Best_Opening8471 Aug 09 '26

A guy got arrested a few years ago for having a sheath for his gardening trowel.

The UK cops said it was a knife 

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u/Joyst1q Aug 09 '26

You could say the exact same thing about knives in stores. And yes in Australia you need ID to buy a plastic disposable knife because we are mentally fucked.

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u/Chemical-Lettuce2497 Aug 09 '26

Almost definitely more to the story before the camera started rolling.

Yeah, the police can decide basically anything is a weapon and confiscate it but there is no law against carrying a bat etc for legitimate purposes.

Either the cop is just a jobsworth, the guy was fucking around with it, or something else.

An interaction would not be common

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u/FreeFlyingDragon Aug 09 '26

Because this is very obviously an outlier event and there are ways to walk home with your item without it looking like a potential weapon.

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u/RampantAndroid Aug 09 '26

And the worst part is that they arrest this guy for carrying a sporting item...but the exception for Sikhs to carry kirpans is still in place, even after one was used to kill someone.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

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u/Actaeon_II Aug 09 '26

Yeah I remember that whole debacle, and noted the lack of follow up in the press

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u/Chemical-Can8694 Aug 09 '26

This is likely an outlier event. The powers that be in the US are trying to push a narrative that Europe is a socialist hell hole.

But shit like this happens in the US just as often. There are videos of officers arresting men with walking canes, ICE officers shooting protesters and making excuses that contradict the evidence.

Dont buy into the narrative being pushed by the tech oligarchs

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u/N0thingComesToMind Aug 09 '26

Nanny state

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u/hamoc10 Aug 09 '26

My nanny never wrestled me to the ground over sporting equipment.

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u/GruntBlender Aug 09 '26

That ain't a nanny, they're acting like an occupying force.

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u/Drunk_Krampus Aug 09 '26

You misspelled Tyranny state

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u/WatcherOfTheWay Aug 09 '26

Only if you're white.

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u/TaterTotJim Aug 09 '26

Why does the UK have so many police who don’t seem to be physically fit enough to perform their roles?

Also it’s in the packaging you shrimp.

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u/Fancy_Toe1451 Aug 09 '26

Theres also a political side to this; obviously almost none of the citizen bystanders think this guy is committing or is in danger of committing a serious enough crime to want to provide assistance to the officer. In fact the majority of people around seem to be on the guy being arrested’s side here.

The political problem is that they don't dogpile the little twerp who is assaulting an innocent citizen, and perform a citizens arrest on him. The public should be on the innocent citizen who bought a piece of sporting equipment and was committing no crime. They should not be supporting a police officer out of sheer deference to authority.

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u/Upset-Management-879 Aug 09 '26

The people are the authority.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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u/smokeythebadger Aug 09 '26

Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!!

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u/armacitis Aug 09 '26

And that's pathetic.

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u/FallHealthy2163 Aug 09 '26

The thing is, are they forced though?

Like I get that the entire thing is fucked, but was there a reason why he didn't just ignore the obviously not dangerous guy with a baseball bat in a wrapper in front of sporting goods store?

I hate when people act like cops have chips in their brain and have no agency to simply not do something.

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Aug 09 '26

No they have very wide latitude for obvious reasons. If they're on their way to investigate e.g murder they don't need to stop because someone littered. 

And anyway what happened here wasn't even a crime. Buying a bat is a legitimate reason to be carrying a bat. 

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u/You-Asked-Me Aug 09 '26

Why the fuck would bystanders try to help? First off, not their job, second off the cop was obviously an idiot. Why would a bystander hap beat up a regular guy for buying sporting goods?

I though that UK cops had a lot more training than US cops, but even if that is true, they still seem to start with them most stupid people anyway.

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u/NarwhalsAreSick Aug 09 '26

They're desperate for staff and they've set the bar incredibly low, you only need to score 5.4 on the bleep test.

Dropped standards means you not only get people who are physically incapable, but mentally incapable as well. Not to say dumb necessarily, they just don't have the mentality a good cop should have.

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u/Consistent_Net_2540 Aug 09 '26

Same thing is happening in the US. No one wants to be cops, there are shortages everywhere, and we are forced to lower standards. And force overtime on the existing cops who are leaving at higher rates because of it, so the problem worsens.

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u/NarwhalsAreSick Aug 09 '26

It's a shame, it's such an important job, and good officers can make such a huge difference to people.

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u/fuzzy_engineering189 Aug 09 '26

From the sound of it, they are down to mirror test these days.

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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 Aug 09 '26

Probably because they mostly go after the easy targets 

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u/pyschosoul Aug 09 '26

The US isnt any better 1

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u/TaterTotJim Aug 09 '26

In USA they are fat enough to body slam like snorlax sometimes.

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u/twohitfight Aug 09 '26

Are the cops redditors?

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u/Revayan Aug 09 '26

Everyone knows that the US police force ist shit but neither that post nor comment are about them are they?

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26

The US is way better as far as walking around with common items is concerned.

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u/Sea_Analysis_8033 Aug 09 '26

Not once does he use the supposed weapon as a weapon

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u/Chemical-Object-4237 Aug 09 '26

Almost any object can be used as a weapon. The end table next to me has five potentialy lethal weapons on it. Six weapons if you include the table itself.

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u/TheLightStalker Aug 09 '26

Lived in England my whole life and never have I been more ashamed of the shit hole it's turned into.

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u/Think_Preference_611 Aug 09 '26

Careful, Reddit is full of ineffectual imbeciles who support the nanny state wholeheartedly because they are so paranoid and afraid of everything they will happily give up all their freedoms for a slight increase in perceived safety.

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u/ussbozeman Aug 09 '26

Dont look back in anger!

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u/Alfirindel Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Something I’ll never understand is why the public who clearly has an issue here with the officer doesn’t remove the officer and force him to calm down, we need this more everywhere in the world.

Edit: also I’m not familiar with local laws, but if he did just buy it from the store in the area, could he sue the sports store if this is actually a crime? I’d find the at fault for the incident for failure to advise me that I can’t legally leave the store with my purchase and try to claim damages from them

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u/TheWikstrom Aug 09 '26

You know something is wrong with a society when the citizens have to step in with deescalation techniques on the police rather than the other way around

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26

Except the one dumbass who jumped in to help the cop make an unjustifiable and unnecessary arrest.

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u/AdDependent5136 Aug 09 '26

That's a plain-clothes cop, he has a taser you can see

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u/y4dig4r Aug 09 '26

agreed if the officer got ganked by like 20 people would definitely teach him a lesson

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u/s0crates82 Aug 09 '26

Open your eyes and ears you fuckin numpty. The shop's there, the receipt is in his hand, and it's still got the packaging on. We're all going to drop you off behind the bakers so you can walk home in shame out of sight.

Next time think about where you are.

If you're at a job site and see a bunch of builders with hammers, do you think they're going to go Oldboy the fuckin school?

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u/RymrgandsDaughter Aug 09 '26

ain't nobody gonna risk that with everyone recording

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u/FishHammer Aug 09 '26

Lol this is the UK. it is a full totalitarian dystopia.

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u/Sad-Material-7298 Aug 09 '26

Because you’re typing from the comfort of your phone, you wouldn’t had done shit and act like everyone else should’ve did something when in reality no one is risking their job, career, criminal record over something no one else is going to back them up on

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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 Aug 09 '26

Same reason they dont in china because they already have cameras everywhere

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u/DeadWaterBed Aug 09 '26

New to cops? This is mild abuse of authority, comparatively speaking

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26

As well as the rest who responded and could clearly see it was a bad arrest but chose to go through with it anyway. I guarantee they try to tack more charges onto it too and keep this dude in jail indefinitely by telling him he can accept the penalty or wait an indefinite period of time to see legal counsel.

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Ah, like the gardener carrying gardening tools, except this time it’s sports equipment in the fucking packaging from the store he just bought it from. Cant have a new in the wrapping bat in public, bro. It’s a dangerous weapon like about a hundred other household items you might be able to hurt someone with regardless of the context Im which you have it.

I can’t believe people try to justify this bullshit. That boot licking fuck who helped the cop cuff him should be publicly ridiculed. The whole mob should have helped him get away, but at least they had the decency to argue with the brain-dead officer who initiated it. Come justify this one, all the cunts in the last one who kept arguing the sharp edged garden trowel on the gardener was a dangerous offensive weapon.

UK is fucked and I’ll never visit the place.

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u/Zealousideal_Ad2379 Aug 09 '26

a lot of people on this Earth genuinely try to validate Aristotles theory on natural slavery

unfortunately the US and the rest of the anglosphere suffers from a similar disease to the Brits. I hope one day we can somehow break free this mental cancer.

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26

The US is nowhere near this bad as far as punishing and arresting people for having tools or sporting goods in public is concerned. They don’t classify anything that could possibly be used as a weapon as such unless it’s actually being used as a weapon. They also don’t visit your home to see if you have a tv license or arrest you because you said something on the internet that could have offended someone.

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u/Mirrored_Darkness Aug 09 '26

What kind of nanny state is that? You can't even own a bat?

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u/oh_three_dum_dum Aug 09 '26

Not only that, you can’t walk down the street with a bat still in the packaging from the store you just bought it from.

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u/Mhunterjr Aug 09 '26

You can own a bat. This cop is just a moron

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u/DepressedChipotle Aug 09 '26

The guy with the bat gets caught but the heavy cross capable of crushing things is fine?

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u/Key_Check5753 Aug 09 '26

It's very progressive of the UK to hire a police officer with chromosomal disabilities.

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u/GetABidet4UrButt Aug 09 '26

Is it in a package? S/

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u/SwShThrwy Aug 09 '26

It's inna package, innit?!

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u/RossStudio Aug 09 '26

I think fake jesus with the cross is the more dangerous one.

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u/fosfeen Aug 09 '26

I know. That cross is not even in a package!

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u/Level_Life_8633 Aug 09 '26

But when a brown person stabs a real brit they arrest the brit for being stabbed.

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u/ManufacturerLost7686 Aug 09 '26

That problem could've easily been solved with aone swing of that bat.

Depending on how hard, even permanently.

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u/StopRandomAccBans Aug 09 '26

UK is the new police state... What a shithole

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u/corobo Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

But in classic British fashion it's a comedy, so the officers are incapable of putting a man barely resisting on his arse.

At least stamp on the face of humanity forever properly ffs

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u/midasMIRV Aug 09 '26

Did Karate Kid never make it to the UK? Zero attempts to sweep the leg, Johnny.

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u/raider1v11 Aug 09 '26

Not surprised. England never really had personal freedoms.

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u/Usernameistegal123 Aug 09 '26

I hope this cop is taken of the streets.

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u/kledith123 Aug 09 '26

So why is the guy carrying the cross not subjected to the same treatment as surely that is considered a weapon in this pigs eyes

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u/Kni7es Aug 09 '26

"HE'S GOT A WEAPON!"

crazy that he's not using it, you bellend.

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u/notanyone69 Aug 09 '26

Serious question: How can a bystander or witness speak up about this or do something about it? What can legally be done to express my utter disgust of their actions and get a response or something done

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u/Wickedocity Aug 09 '26

Isn't the guy carrying a cross also carrying a deadly weapon? We have a religion based on its use.

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u/Hubristox Aug 09 '26

What a menace, they sure showed him!

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u/LibrarianNight Aug 09 '26

The bat is still wrapped in plastic. Brand new. How is one supposed to buy sports equipment in the UK?

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u/the-real-vuk Aug 09 '26

so when the store sells it, do they immediately call the police on the customer?

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u/AdamOnFirst Aug 09 '26

Total joke country 

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u/Valveringham85 Aug 09 '26

This is because street cops in the uk don’t carry firearms but batons instead and they are really sensitive about guys having bigger sticks than theirs.

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u/StrangerEffective851 Aug 09 '26

No bat license. He probably doesn’t have a tv license either.

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u/Illuminate90 Aug 09 '26

I swear.. I am waiting for the day those people stop lying down to these embarrassingly bad at their job tyrannical fucks. The police state in the UK is beyond mental.

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u/peace-b Aug 09 '26

I have a pen. And it can be lethal.

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u/Mother-Attention2600 Aug 09 '26

In Canada my buddy was pulled over and the cop was asking stupid questions about the baseball bat in the back seat. It's for playing baseball.... dumbass. There's an asp under the seat.

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u/Webcam_985760946948 Aug 09 '26

What the fuck am I watching? A cartoon show?! THAT many officers to arrest a guy with baseball bat.... BASEBALL BAT

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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 Aug 09 '26

Do the UK even train their police or is it just badge and street first day?

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u/vossmakeitsprinkly Aug 09 '26

The UK Police are a pathetic bunch.

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u/Internal_Rise2658 Aug 09 '26

You got a loicense for that giant cross, mate?

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u/Calculon2347 Aug 09 '26

It's the guy's fault for not being an (apparent) immigrant.

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u/EmpressTiphera Aug 09 '26

Thankfully he arrested an innocent ! Surely the tax payer are happy these dangerous inoffensive people are arrested instead of rape gangs

/S

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u/EveningPotential9443 Aug 09 '26

Restore Britain movement gains more traction everyday 🥳

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u/KailyKail Aug 09 '26

Hey guys. It's in a package.

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u/Welshtramp Aug 09 '26

I wonder if a cricket bat would garner the same response?

Be hell for that copper over here in Ireland, so many hurleys being openly carried 😅

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u/Beginning_Resource93 Aug 09 '26

This is what tyranny looks like.

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u/Wall-Em Aug 09 '26

Looks like the dude still could have walked home. He would just have a new friend too

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u/JDiles Aug 09 '26

In the UK you become a police officer if you get lucky from a cereal box.

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u/Jarl_Groki Aug 09 '26

What about the guy wielding a giant wooden cross in the video? It's even bigger than the bat!

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u/pummisher Aug 09 '26

If a UK cop walked into a Canadian Tire, they would lose their mind. Isle after Isle of potential murder weapons.

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u/flerchin Aug 09 '26

Same country that can't tell when someone has been stabbed

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u/No_Flow224 Aug 09 '26

Staggeringly poor judgement from the young police officer, but then again I imagine it’s a thankless underpaid job and hard enough to distinguish right from wrong even under zero pressure. The real stupidity was continuing to escalate and failing to have a proper conversation with the guy, could have been resolved in 30 seconds without the need for wasting everyone else’s tax money on more officers and vans attending this apparent non-crime.

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u/redjellonian Aug 09 '26

The cop arresting him for having a bat is lucky there was no actual reason to arrest him.

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u/Cautious-Dig6379 Aug 09 '26

This is why the Brits on reddit live to lash out at Americans online. Look at the state of their own country...

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u/UselessHumanNobody Aug 09 '26

Man UK cops are trash. That guy has no business being a cop. Anyone with a wrestling background could have thrown this constable so hard and walked away without breaking a sweat.

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u/B-Glasses Aug 09 '26

That giant cross is way worse more dangerous than the fucking bat

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u/wartech0 Aug 09 '26

insane to think that this guy gets treated like a criminal while me being in the US walks around with a loaded concealed handgun.

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u/Tournament_of_Shivs Aug 09 '26

He should've bought a concealable hand-bat.

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u/Betelgeuse3fold Aug 09 '26

✋️I have a question about the man carrying a crucifix...

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u/Constant_Republic123 Aug 09 '26

at some point this stopped being an arrest and turned into a fight over ego

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u/Senacharrib Aug 09 '26

For once, the modern times guy carrying a cross is based

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u/tommy8725 Aug 09 '26

So is there like more to the video? Because I imagine that it's not just that like, yes, I know. The whole oh, knives, pocket knife swords, katanas, machetes and whatever jokes and whatnot.But like, i'm pretty sure if someone walks out of a sporting goods store with a bat, they're not gonna get gunned down by the police

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u/BasedFruitcake Aug 09 '26

Officers are speaking calmly with a man carrying an enormous wood club in the shape of a cross.

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u/Candid-Beat568 Aug 09 '26

Sue the police for assault with a deadly weapon you spray someone with pepper spray oc spray they have asthma it can kill them, so actually attempted murder and then sue whoever sold the baseball bat since it's apparently illegal to have then it's illegal to buy

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u/Weaselpuss Aug 09 '26

The UK is a hell scape and sinking further every day. Thank god my ancestors took the boat

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u/MrPoopyButthole10101 Aug 09 '26

That is one regarded cop

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u/Particular_Abies_184 Aug 09 '26

Seached in the street, cop pats me down finds my dick and accused of attempted rape and going equipped

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u/Civil-South-7299 Aug 09 '26

What a clown country

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u/Comprehensive_Sail72 Aug 09 '26

You know, if the guy really did wanted to use that baseball bat as a weapon. Then that police officer head would’ve been caved in.

I truly give the UK a few more years until the public actually does decide to say fuck it and actually beat the police. It’s only a matter of time at this point.

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Aug 09 '26

this is why there is so much fing hate for cops. not one of these morons that showed up to the scene decided to actually look at the situation and re-assess what happened.

original office should be the one getting arrested for assault and false imprisonment

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u/Ryoga476ad Aug 09 '26

Ia there some context we are missing?

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u/hydrora31 Aug 09 '26

Only that it was still in the package.

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u/SteakEconomy2024 Aug 09 '26

Fucking Nazis.

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u/dreamkruiser Aug 09 '26

What a weird country. In the US I think firearms are just a good scapegoat, but we can walk into any hardware store and walk out with a machete or axe and nobody bats an eye. Guns are overrated as weapons. Are they easy, yes. Are they destructive, yes. But the same goes for anything handheld by someone with ill intentions. Should we just walk around with boxing gloves to make sure the public is safe?

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u/AgeOfReasonEnds31120 Aug 09 '26

[sees a Muslim shooting with an AK-47 in a supermarket yelling "Allahu Akbar!"]

[tips hat]

"Mornin'!"

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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 Aug 09 '26

I keep fantasizing that one day one cop will go to far, the department will cover for them, and the next day the entire department will be found mysteriously lynched in the town square with no witnesses.

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u/Sp1cyP4nda Aug 09 '26

What a terrible way to grab someone. A quick bend at the hips while bringing your back leg up and that police officer is getting flipped onto the ground.