British police forced a Newport shopkeeper to remove his “Obey Our Laws” T-shirts.
The shirts might “incite racial hatred.”
ARREST THREAT: Matthew Taylor and the T-shirt police have forced him to remove from display (SW Argus)
Police threatened to arrest Matthew Taylor if he did not remove the T-shirts.
South Wales Argus reported, via Tundra Tabloids:
A NEWPORT shopkeeper has been forced by police to remove a T-shirt from his shop window because they felt it “could be seen to be inciting racial hatred.”
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Matthew Taylor, 35, the owner of Taylor’s clothes store on Emlyn Walk in the city, printed up and displayed the T-shirt with the slogan: “Obey our laws, respect our beliefs or get out of our country” after Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, was killed in near Woolwich barracks in London last week.
But following a complaint from a member of the public, police came to his store and threatened to arrest him unless he removed the Tshirt from sight…
…A spokeswoman for Gwent police confirmed: “ We did have a call from a member of the public. We visited the shop and asked him to remove it (the T-shirt) as it could be seen to be inciting racial hatred.”
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