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Two Christian preachers were stopped from handing out Bible extracts by police because they were in a Muslim area, it was claimed yesterday.
They say they were told by a Muslim police community support officer that they could not preach there and that attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity was a hate crime.
The community officer is also said to have told the two men: ‘You have been warned. If you come back here and get beat up, well, you have been warned.’
A police constable who was present during the incident in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham is also alleged to have told the preachers not to return to the district.
What the fuck is that all about? PCSO Naeem Naguthney can kiss my pork eating, beer swilling, not sky fairy believing, arse. But don’t worry, chaps, I’m sure he was instantly sacked and then prosecuted for attempting to pervert the cause of justice, or some such.
Nope.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said an investigation into the complaint had concluded that the PCSO had acted ‘with the best of intentions’ when he ‘intervened to diffuse a heated argument between two groups of men’.
A statement added: ‘Following this investigation, the PCSO has been offered guidance about what constitutes a hate crime and advice on communication style.’
Oh, I see. West Midlands police. You know, the ones who tried to fit up Channel 4.
I didn’t think it was possible for me, a law abiding soul, to despise the police (yes, every single one of them ~ don’t give me the few bad apples / ‘I was just driving the trains, gov’ bullshit argument. The police are politically corrupt. To continue to work for them is to condone this corruption) any more. I was wrong. May their anal tracts be infested with extra strength itching powder.
Update ~ Alerted to story via Umbongo’s comment
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I’ll join you in your contempt for the police.
This example of the police at work should disgust us all. This quote from the report, to the effect that “members of the public who have innocently and legally [my emphasis] stored their valuables were “inevitably” going to get swept up in the disruption, it was predicted. Police said they could use a freephone number - 0800 030 4613 - to claim back their goods.”, illustrates only too clearly everything about the respect the police (and their outriders in the judiciary) have for the rule of law (or respect for anything else but their pay packets and throwing their weight around) .