Video shot outside the Ripped Gym in Wych Elm on Thursday shows dozens of Essex Police officers and several police cars on the scene as an officer demands that a woman believed to be the owner accept a ยฃ1,000 fine for breaching the newly implemented lockdown.
The woman refuses to provide her name or other ID details to the cops, claiming to be protected "under common law," and is then arrested for not cooperating. Essex Police confirmed on Thursday they had arrested "a gym owner in Harlow" on "suspicion of breaching coronavirus legislation," also revealing they'd filed a prohibition notice requiring her to close the business indefinitely.
Comment: The criminality of those in power and the blind obedience of the police mean that attempts to debate 'the laws of the land' are, as it is, likely going to be met with force.
Comment: Former Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption has been very critical of the subversion of law and democratic processes since the very first lockdown at the beginning of this year: "This is what a police state is like": UK's ex-supreme court judge lambasts policing, 'collective hysteria' and the lockdown
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More footage showing the UK's police behaviour following the forced closures was just posted on Twitter: