Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained

It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.

The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up.

Speaking to the Guardian, Pickering admitted it was designed to be an easy mistake to make, appearing to look like the logo of Palestine Action, the protest group banned under terrorism legislation last month, but text underneath the logo reads: “We oppose AI-generated animation.”

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    They’re not far behind China

    They’re leagues ahead. We just don’t like to acknowledge it, because they’re White Westerners rather than Evil NonWhite Communists.

    Re: Reddit DC Sub

    I’m a naturalized immigrant and loudly anti-regime online. Just today I had two people tell me to “go back to China and see how long you last criticizing the government there”(ironically they never seem to realize that they’re advocating for Chinese style authoritarianism under trump), and “Get out of this country you commie.”

    Most non-POC simply don’t understand this reality of racism and tension in this country. It’s the definition of privilege. Not needing to think about how police forces or others will react to you because of the color of your skin.

    This is just normal treatment of any kind of POC in a western nation in the modern day. Getting randomly screamed at, assaulted, or reported to the police entirely due to skin color and accent.