Nottingham becomes first city to impose balaclava ban to fight ‘intimidating’ use

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Timothy Miller, 76, from Southampton, was charged with concealing his identity after police warned they would use powers to arrest demonstrators wearing face coverings at an anti-immigration protest in Portsmouth at the weekend.

So, sounds like rightwingers are making very poor attempts at trying to get religious face coverings banned, by being dicks while wearing barely recognizable attempts at those face coverings…

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- rah@hilariouschaos.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  sounds like rightwingers are making very poor attempts at trying to get religious face coverings banned, by being dicks while wearing barely recognizable attempts at those face coverings
  
  It doesn’t sound like that to me at all. It sounds like antisocial people trying to avoid being identified while they commit antisocial and/or criminal acts, nothing more.
  
  That you would read into this story some convoluted attempt to get burkhas banned says more about you than it does about them.
  
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