POLICE mistakenly arrested a protester over terrorism offences
because they thought his ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt read ‘Palestine Action.’
Miles Pickering, 59, says senior officers burst out laughing when
they realised the blunder before releasing him without charge.
He told Metro that he turned up to a protest in Parliament Square
on August 9 over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza wearing the T-shirt.
However, when a police officer saw the tee, he arrested the
59-year-old and hauled him to Scotland Yard.
This shirt was only a few jumbled letters away from Palestine
Action, a group banned under terrorism legislation last month.
Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 makes it illegal to wear
anything supporting a banned organisation.
Instead, the T-shirt was for Plasticine Action, a group of artists
who campaign against animation generated by artificial intelligence (AI)
Plasticine is a modelling material used to create stop-motion
figures, such as the character Morph, who features on Miles’ shirt.
Miles, from Brighton, told Metro: ‘He must have misinterpreted the fact that I was wearing a Plasticine Action T-shirt as me wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt.
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