‘Special Powers, Government Powers’: British Man Told He Can’t Be In His Own Yard

by | Apr 10, 2020

When UK police enact restrictions they (perhaps predictably) go insane.

Watch this encounter where a man in his own garden is told to get indoors or “the coronavirus will get you!”

At one point the officer even begins dictating how many times the man is able to go to the local grocery store. “I saw you carrying two bottles of pop earlier.”

Just maddening.

Of course the state never “apologizes”. Since the UK went on lockdown there’s been endless examples of such outlandish abuses.

Brad Hoff

Brad Hoff

Brad is a native Texan and US Marine veteran who after leaving the military began wandering around the Middle East, eventually making Syria his second home. He's authored multiple stories for his blog Levant Report which gained international attention. Find his writing at Antiwar.com, SOFREP, Foreign Policy Journal, The Canary (UK), and others.

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