Comment on Police Raid Home of 84-Year-Old Priest Who Joined Just Stop Oil Protest
doleo@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago- peaceful but disruptive protest has effectively been made subject to police permission.
- The person in question was not an 84-year-old who joined a far-right protest that was suspected of having been organised to incite racial hatred
Therefore not a weird thing to be writing an article about.
FishFace@piefed.social 21 hours ago
But they did join a disruptive protest that hadn’t been approved. So… that’s to be expected.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
…approved? You’ve got to be fucking joking. If your protest is “approved” by the corrupt government you’re protesting, then you might as well stay home.
FishFace@piefed.social 20 hours ago
I obviously don’t disagree. I don’t think it’s weird to report on peaceful protests that are undemocratically banned; I think it’s weird to separately report on the police doing normal police shit that happens when someone gets arrested.
“84 year old priest has house searched by police” is newsworthy if the priest didn’t do anything illegal. It’s not newsworthy if they did.
“Some people did something illegal which should not be illegal” is newsworthy, but that’s not the content of the article.
It’s reporting that’s just trying to play on the emotions of the readers.
WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Why is it reasonable to go from “person participated in illegal protest” (which is NOT some extreme protest for an illegal topic), to “we’re going to raid their residence”? How is that relevant to the act of attending a protest. Fine or jail the person as prescribed by the (inane) law and move on, searching their home is overreach.
Zorque@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
What if the illegality is newsworthy?
Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Ok bootlicker
FishFace@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Did you not expect this kind of thing to happen? Do you think expecting it means you respect the people doing it?
Or do you not think about any of this and just respond rudely and stupidly because you don’t like that this happened and think that I’m not expressing enough disapproval for your tastes?
Zorque@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Just because something is expected doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about it. Especially if, by omission, its assumed that nothing happened at all.