If you are not familiar with the story of how the editor of this blog was arrested by members of Sadiq Khan’s ‘hate speech and hate crime’ team for allegedly creating memes mocking high profile individuals and for criticising Islam, then please see this post.

Following my arrest, which was captured in its entirety on CCTV, under the ‘Malicious Communications Act’ and ‘Racial and religious harassment’, the footage of the incident was, quite rightly, sent for safe keeping with friends of this blog in the North. Edited selections (without the boring bits of hours and hours of empty road and garden) are to be found below.

The first video shows the officers knocking on the front door demanding entry ‘for a chat’. The lead officer, the Asian gentleman who can be seen prominently in this video, is PC Choudhury of Khan’s ‘hate crime’ vanity project. The older white haired man is a Met Pol civilian worker and the bulk of the other officers are from West Mercia Police, which is, as you may know, the same force that did the square root of bugger all to stop the Islamic Rape Gangs in Telford from abusing over one thousand girls and young women.

The second video is a higher level view of both the police activity and the arrest. My colleague has pixellated me out for some reason but you should be able to get the gist of what is going on.

The next video is from Camera Five and Camera Six which cover the side alley next to my house, which the police used to gain access to my back garden and the camera covering the opposite corner of my front garden.

Other camera channels were either switched off for maintanance or were not relevant to this story. Audio is currently being extracted from the files and will be put up at as soon as possible.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank again all those who are offering moral and practical support and also to all those others who are spreading the word about this particular arrest. I’d particularly like to thank all those who let organisations like Jihad Watch become aware of my case and the many others who have commented in my favour on social media.

This arrest is not just something that has been done to me, these sort of arrests for ‘hurty words’ are getting all too common in the United Kingdom. In 2016 alone over 3000 Britons were arrested and or prosecuted for various ‘hate speech’ ‘offences’. People have in recent years been arrested for teaching a pug to give a right arm salute and for making sick jokes about the Grenfell Tower fire. People have also been prosecuted for putting in joke job applications to Islamic groups and even a teenager who used the ‘N’ word which came from the lyric of a rap song which she put on social media as a tribute to a dead friend, found herself at the blunt end of Britain’s all too easily exploited and abused ‘hate speech’ laws.

These laws need to go. They offend against a fundamental princple of justice, which is that we should all, no matter what our colour, faith, gender or sexuality, be treated equally under the law. As I have said before elsewhere, I find it morally intolerable that a drunk who punches me in the face on the way back to the pub one night would get a far lesser sentence than if he’d racially or religiously insulted me in the process. In both the scenarios the injuries are the same, but because some mere words were used or even perceived without evidence to have been used, the offender can get a much more harsh and maybe unjust punishment. A punch in the face is a punch in the face and it should not be treated any differently depending on what words were used by the attacker or words that were percieved by the victim to be used.