Trashy America-style sentencing
Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists
Submitted 3 days ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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yakko@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 3 days ago
No, this is a UK-style sentencing happening in the UK which the governing Labour party encourages.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 days ago
I'm a proud America hater, but this is more of a European tradition. Terrorism charges in America (all state-level or local; no federal terrorism charge exists) only exist as addons to other crimes, so this isn't something that could've happened there.
mjr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
“We have not been charged with, nor convicted of, any terrorism offence,” said Malik. “At no point during our trial did the prosecution seek to pursue anything to do with terrorism, and the jury were kept completely in the dark and were not told that if convicted, we could be sentenced as terrorists.”
It seems like this an add- on too.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 days ago
TIL 😞
jack@hexbear.net 2 days ago
something english happeningly englishly in england:
wot are we, a bunch of yanks?
Sunshine@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Corrupt judges need consequences
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Wish it was just corrupt judges. But this is coming from most of the poltiical class
mjr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
In fac, the judges might be true, but believe they have no alternative to following corrupt rules set by politicians.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
If IDENTIFYING as a Palestine Action Activist gets you MORE time in Jail then MURDER it’ll DETER people from being Activists! That’s the ONLY thing that’ll Happen!
CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 3 days ago
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 days ago
That’s the ONLY thing that’ll Happen!
For those that can’t seem to make 2+2=4…
If you get more time for using pray paint than murder… Might as well just murder instead of using spray paint.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That’s the idea
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
150 years of civil disobedience celebrated in the UK but as soon as Zionist supremacy is challenged its all terrorism.
yuri@pawb.social 2 days ago
In 2023, climate activists from Extinction Rebellion staged a similar protest against Barclays, breaking windows at the bank’s Canary Wharf headquarters and causing £500k worth of damage. But they were never treated as terrorists and avoided jail.
huh.
mjr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Different government, possibly different rules for prosecutors, or maybe even laws?
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Curious how corporations can get a lot of stuff done for very cheap, practically free sometimes. But when it’s time to ‘calculate damages’, all of a sudden they take the borderline scam options that they would have never used. In addition to multiplying the end sum by 4 for good measure, of course.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Everyone’s a “terrorist” these days.
Cherry@piefed.social 2 days ago
That’s the plan…
Carl@hexbear.net 2 days ago
Didn’t the jury refuse to convict on terrorism charges? Or was that a different case?
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Juries let people off, can’t have that!
baconmonsta@piefed.social 2 days ago
Terrorist is the new communist
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Asinine
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
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“£ 212k of damage”… For some paint and a window?
mjr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Barclays is bad at negotiating with repairers, or is taking a cut.
bestagon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s the quote they gave to their insurance company
Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
There are lots of ways to manage your money. And if they’re paying that much for repairs then I’d find someone else to manage your money.
Redfox8@mander.xyz 2 days ago
That looks like a historic town centre building so the cost is likely for replacing the blocks with identical sandstone pieces in line with historic conservation laws. I suspect the paint won’t just clean off.
They’ve got plenty of money though.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Not replacing but restoration work involves studies of the materials to choose the chemicals, meticulous cleaning (sometimes with a toothbrush) and even repainting with the exact color match which again involves studies, sometimes it goes as far as taking samples and running chromatography on them.