Trashy America-style sentencing
Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists
Submitted 3 weeks ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
No, this is a UK-style sentencing happening in the UK which the governing Labour party encourages.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
TIL 😞
jack@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
something english happeningly englishly in england:
wot are we, a bunch of yanks?
Sunshine@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Corrupt judges need consequences
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Wish it was just corrupt judges. But this is coming from most of the poltiical class
mjr@infosec.pub 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
That’s the idea
yuri@pawb.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Different government, possibly different rules for prosecutors, or maybe even laws?
baconmonsta@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Terrorist is the new communist
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Everyone’s a “terrorist” these days.
Cherry@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That’s the plan…
Carl@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Didn’t the jury refuse to convict on terrorism charges? Or was that a different case?
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Juries let people off, can’t have that!
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
150 years of civil disobedience celebrated in the UK but as soon as Zionist supremacy is challenged its all terrorism.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Asinine
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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“£ 212k of damage”… For some paint and a window?
mjr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Barclays is bad at negotiating with repairers, or is taking a cut.
bestagon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the quote they gave to their insurance company
Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.