Trashy America-style sentencing
Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists
Submitted 1 month ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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yakko@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 1 month ago
No, this is a UK-style sentencing happening in the UK which the governing Labour party encourages.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 month 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 month 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 1 month ago
TIL 😞
jack@hexbear.net 1 month ago
something english happeningly englishly in england:
wot are we, a bunch of yanks?
Sunshine@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Corrupt judges need consequences
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Wish it was just corrupt judges. But this is coming from most of the poltiical class
mjr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
In fac, the judges might be true, but believe they have no alternative to following corrupt rules set by politicians.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 1 month 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 1 month ago
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
That’s the idea
yuri@pawb.social 1 month 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 month ago
Different government, possibly different rules for prosecutors, or maybe even laws?
baconmonsta@piefed.social 1 month ago
Terrorist is the new communist
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Everyone’s a “terrorist” these days.
Cherry@piefed.social 1 month ago
That’s the plan…
Carl@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Didn’t the jury refuse to convict on terrorism charges? Or was that a different case?
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Juries let people off, can’t have that!
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
150 years of civil disobedience celebrated in the UK but as soon as Zionist supremacy is challenged its all terrorism.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Asinine
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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“£ 212k of damage”… For some paint and a window?
mjr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Barclays is bad at negotiating with repairers, or is taking a cut.
bestagon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s the quote they gave to their insurance company
Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.