There's Police, and there's Police. The Met have always been scrupulously fair in their management of antiscientology demonstrations, but the force responsible for this arrest is City of London... Who have been taking freebies from the cult.
City are not all that well-respected - look up their abysmal incompetence during the May Day protests a few years ago - and they have just stepped boots-first into a beartrap.
It's possible that they targeted a minor so that the case wouldn't end with a working adult getting a criminal conviction. Possible, but unlikely: they simply aren't bright enough.
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Date: 2008-05-21 08:06 pm (UTC)There's Police, and there's Police. The Met have always been scrupulously fair in their management of antiscientology demonstrations, but the force responsible for this arrest is City of London... Who have been taking freebies from the cult.
City are not all that well-respected - look up their abysmal incompetence during the May Day protests a few years ago - and they have just stepped boots-first into a beartrap.
It's possible that they targeted a minor so that the case wouldn't end with a working adult getting a criminal conviction. Possible, but unlikely: they simply aren't bright enough.