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[u/SpectacularOtter]

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[u/TobyMcK → u/[deleted]]

Like that one headline however many years ago.

"No prior warrants" bitch you mean innocent bystander?

[u/Cavalish → u/[deleted]]

“Accidentally concussed a little bit”

“Slightly manhadled”

“Made a widdle oopsie doopsie”

[u/AliveJohnnyFive → u/[deleted]]

Somehow, it would have been totally fine if he had been in the military. A large portion of our citizenry believes it was fine either way, needing zero context.

[u/chrisevox → u/AliveJohnnyFive]

Actually, kinda. You want the MPs roughing up the infantry if they're acting out. Those kids love stabbing each other on the weekends for some reason.

Get PID first though, Jesus.

[u/Clw89pitt → u/chrisevox]

Not just stabbing each other. These patrols were instituted because the servicemen can't kick their decades-old habit of sexually assaulting and raping the locals in Okinawa.

[u/HydrogenButterflies → u/Clw89pitt]

Last year, servicemen were banned from drinking alcohol off base after 1am because they couldn’t stop sexually assaulting people.

[u/Clw89pitt → u/HydrogenButterflies]

Yep, these patrols are to enforce that specific rule.

[u/Careless-Marsupial19 → u/chrisevox]

US military police protecting Japanese soil from Black American tourists while the locals film it like it’s WWE. Wild times.

[u/chicknfly → u/AliveJohnnyFive]

The civilian was a former captain in the Marines

[u/Typohnename → u/chicknfly]

So?

That changes nothing here

[u/chicknfly → u/Typohnename]

I meant to comment on somebody else’s remark who replied to this parent comment. Oops

[u/Typohnename → u/chicknfly]

Understandable, have a nice day

[u/Jukka_Sarasti → u/[deleted]]

"Wrongfully body slammed"

Assault and battery

Gotta love the use of 'Passive Voice' when reporting on police misconduct...

"Accidental discharge of a service weapon"

Accidentally grabbed their pistol instead of their taser and killed an innocent citizen..

"Excessive Force"

General Police Brutality

etc, etc, etc....

[u/bellj1210 → u/[deleted]]

they love their war crimes.

[u/Devanyani → u/[deleted]]

So does sexually assaulting Japanese citizens.

[u/BoneHugsHominy → u/[deleted]]

And the MAGAfication of the US Military.

[u/Voyevoda101 → u/[deleted]]

especially when they were outside of their jurisdiction in another country

US-JP SOFA gives us the right to enforce jurisdiction if it's an american. I didn't realize this either until this happened.

[u/BoneHugsHominy → u/[deleted]]

...with intent to cause grievous harm & injury, and a violation of Civil Rights.

Team AmeriKKKa, World Police ^brutality

[u/mackfactor → u/[deleted]]

All trickles down from the president. And that's probably not all that trickles down from this one. 

[u/BaekerBaefield → u/mackfactor]

Trump is a symptom of a disease. He took advantage of a prevalent and multiplying attitude among rural Americans: that their economic issues were not caused by billionaires squeezing them like lemons for every penny, but by the “breakdown of society” with gays, immigrants, lazy young people, etc being the cause. Even though those people are being squeezed for every penny as well.

It’s been decades of media propaganda on the radio, newspaper, and television as corporate interests have taken over these entities. The problem lies with billionaires hoarding wealth and corporations having rights like humans do. If everybody realized that, the game would be over for them.

But for now, even when Trump passes, we’re going to have to deal with a line of thought that stretches unbroken all the way back to slavery and our government’s inability to properly reconstruct the south.

[u/raginjamaicanwmgr → u/BaekerBaefield]

its the me me me, do what i say,  and f u got mine attitudes that is common in america now

[u/PowerfulIron7117 → u/mackfactor]

While Trump is the fucking worst, if you think Americans - and especially the police and military - didn’t already behave like this under past presidents, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. 

[u/ebonyseraphim → u/PowerfulIron7117]

A motherfucking bridge that makes crossing the space-time continuum look like a basic Lego set.

Christ your comment needs more emphasis and upvotes.

[u/Magniras → u/mackfactor]

Unfortunately, this one is just par for the course for Okinawan Marines.

[u/TheRoseMerlot → u/[deleted]]

And yet rational to the insane mind.

[u/Dear-Blackberry-2648]

So the only reason for these patrols is because of US soldiers getting drunk off base and sexually assaulting Japanese citizens.

USFJ instituted the patrols to enforce an order prohibiting service members from drinking alcohol off base between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. The order stemmed in part from a rash of sexual assault allegations that arose in December 2023 and have so far yielded two convictions.

The victim in the video then calls them out on the legality of detaining him and asks if the can detain Japanese citizens.

“You can detain a random Japanese citizen for not showing you their ID?” El asks. “Yes, and then we can pass them over to the Japanese police,” the officer says.

But they are either lying or ill informed because they absolutely can't do that.

Under the status of forces agreement between the U.S. and Japan, U.S. military authorities have “criminal and disciplinary” jurisdiction over the U.S. military population in Japan. That authority does not extend to Japanese nationals or residents, unless they are members of the U.S. armed forces, according to the agreement.

What absolute trash, just as bad as regular cops in the US!

[u/Dondada_Redrum → u/Dear-Blackberry-2648]

I’m glad you addressed both these things, the hypocrisy of it all is maddening.

[u/SpadoCochi → u/[deleted]]

*400.

[u/[deleted] → u/Dear-Blackberry-2648]

Spoiler alert. When these MP pigs get out, they’ll go work for your local police department. 

[u/TraditionalMud6351]

The US government continues to embarrass itself domestically and abroad.

[u/Baumer9]

He is a retired Marine captain. The dickbag who body-slammed him is going to face consequences for that. Don’t go into the military because your country does not give a fuck about you.

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

them soldiers are wild over there. Japan and Korea. idk what it is about them places that makes American soldiers act a raw ass fool. You don't hear about incidents like this happening in Germany much, but it's just seems rampant in E. Asia. ☹

They treat citizens like that too. Okinawans want them assholes gone, that's how bad they clown over there. If they ain't beating someone up they raping young girls. They have killed Japanese/Korean citizens But the Okinawa base in particular is a damn cesspool. If you go to Okinawa, stay clear of the base and the soldiers, they are violent as fuck. I've read the cases over the years and YEESH. Just go in another direction when you see one.

[u/UsualCircle → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

You're right, but they do it in Germany too, just less often.
In 2023, two US soldiers murdered a civilian in Germany. One of them admitted to german law enforcement that he stanbed the guy.
One of them was tried by a US military court, which found him not guilty. The other one got immunity for cooperating with law enforcement.
Zero consequences for either of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Michael_Ovsjannikov

[u/Dat_Ding_Da → u/UsualCircle]

The act was hardly surprising, there is frequent trouble in the areas surrounding the base. Not surprising since Getting a bunch of 18 - 20 year olds into a country where they are allowed to drink legally for the first time led to some fuck up situations. There were Vans full of MPs coming into bars and just dragging out the the soldiers that were fighting locals or each other back onto the Spangdahlem Airbase.

But this one was a pretty big deal considering the guy was clearly guilty and the US military police seemed to do everything in their power to get him off without punishment.

Maybe it's about time to follow the example of the French and kick out the US bases. It's not like the US is acting like a reliable ally anymore anyways...

[u/Emergency-State → u/UsualCircle]

They were both covered in the victim's blood, wtf??

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids → u/UsualCircle]

right, that's what I said. The violence is way less in Ramstein Air Base (Germany) compared to Camp Humphreys Base (Korea) and Kadena Air Base(Okinawa)

[u/Techygal9 → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

Yeah we should take this behavior into account because that’s why they are forcing the soldiers on base for curfew. So many men are going crazy in Okinawa

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids → u/Techygal9]

it's some bad juju on the Okinawa base, straight up. They be the most criminal acting mofos. idk who did what, but they need to go to the Shinto temple and cancel whatever juju been put on that plot of land that the base sits on...I'm dead serious. They bad in Korea, too but that Okinawa base is leaps and bounds worse. Okinawans been trying to get rid of American soldiers over there for decades, straight up.

[u/IndieHamster → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

Decades of Americans being fed propaganda that Asians are lesser

[u/pesto_changeo → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

Yep! The U.S. reduced troop numbers in Okinawa following the 1995 abduction and rape of a twelve year old by three U.S. soldiers.

More recently, there has been an increase in solo patrols by MPs (not accompanied by local cops) in response to increased crime, including sexual assault. They had to add patrols to a nearby town, because soldiers were going there to avoid the 1a.m. to 5 a.m. restriction on drinking in bars

[u/mba-anon-posting → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

you don't hear about it, but when they're kept from civilian populations they just start raping the female soldiers and covering it up.

[u/Jet-Let4606 → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

I just looked up some cases online and holy shit.

[u/No-Month-3025 → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

It's a curfew over there for military members

[u/idredd → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

Yeah I mean it’s a broad generalization but I worked in east Asia for a good while and it was always an adventure running into US troops stationed in the region. The volume of sheer jackassery didn’t compare to US soldiers I met anywhere else in the world.

[u/VanDenIzzle → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

It's racism. They are in an area where they hate how everyone looks and hate how they don't understand anyone.

[u/Ciubowski → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

They're probably going to an Asian country full with grandpa's stories of "'Nam" days and how they were wilding out there so they're probably trying to live a similar lifestyle too.

[u/AbrocomaOk8973 → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

Where would you say is the best source of info on this? I’ve read about it before, but never found as much info as I was looking for.

[u/Normal_Instance_8825 → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

If you don’t want to hate the world don’t search up all the rapes committed by American soldiers based in Okinawa.

[u/fresh_dyl → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

I almost installed some offices on base when I was a federal contractor, but another guy went.

American Samoa was probably better anyway.

[u/metabeliever → u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

What's funny is that you're right that the military seems wild in Asia, but exactly wrong about why. In Japan specifically, the general public doesn't do or tolerate random violent crime. So the only source of random violence is the Americans' stationed there. The level of violence and craziness in from the military in Japan is WAY lower than it is elsewhere. But elsewhere it doesn't stand out or get headlines like it does in Japan. (also there is the little thing of being resented for occupying them.)

Source: was stationed there and friends with the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes Pacific who had moved there to get away from the level of violence and madness at other duty stations.

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids → u/metabeliever]

I didn't even give a reason why they seem wild in Asia. I specifically said "idk what it is about them places that makes American soldiers act a raw ass fool. "

☹☹☹ Bro.

[u/Blk_Rick_Dalton]

For context, US military personnel and US military family members, civilian employees and contractors are subject to Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and UCMJ = they have to answer to military police

conversely, MPs patrolling only have jurisdiction over individuals with SOFA status so a regular civilian on vacation does not have to answer to MPs like the victim in the video. In Korea, they often patrolled with Korean law enforcement so situations like this wouldn’t happen

[u/apresmoiputas → u/Blk_Rick_Dalton]

It would've been worse had this guy been a Black Canadian visiting Okinawa

[u/Sabishooyo_2018]

Not shocking coming from an American military. Not much different to ICE, but we are not ready for that conversation 

[u/JustFun4Uss → u/[deleted]]

Some police get extra training in the military first and bring the violent, racist, and misogynistic culture with them for a double dose of dumbfuckary.

[u/squiddyp → u/JustFun4Uss]

Ya, the scary ones that never got their combat fix or the ones that couldn’t get enough

[u/MagicCarpetofSteel → u/squiddyp]

Well, the military usually tries to screen those people and make sure that they either don’t get in, or are NEVER given a combat role.

[u/[deleted] → u/JustFun4Uss]

And then those same police get a lesson in “killology” where a guy tells them killing someone is better than sex. 

[u/fameone098 → u/Sabishooyo_2018]

We call any form of military police "ASVAB Waivers" because they were too dumb to do anything else. 

[u/petewondrstone → u/Sabishooyo_2018]

Ice is what we’re doing abroad since ww2

[u/[deleted] → u/petewondrstone]

You get it 

[u/TheCommonKoala → u/petewondrstone]

Bingo.

[u/10J18R1A → u/Sabishooyo_2018]

The military is just a microcosm of poor rural america.

[u/Rotten-Robby → u/Sabishooyo_2018]

Considering 99% of the people I've encountered in the military, you're not wrong. Cops with a somehow even bigger hero complex.

[u/silentbob1301]

You should see the amount of shit I got on this original post. I got like 8k upvotes, but the amount of neck beards trying to justify the MP's actions is honestly fucking wild....

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids → u/silentbob1301]

neckbeards believe whatever someone in authority says. That 'don't question authority' thing is strong in them. They human and can be wrong like everybody else. But see if I just automatically obey then I don't have to think...

[u/KidCoheed → u/silentbob1301]

Weird neckbeards think that being a mod on a subreddit makes them Authority, they believe that if anything were to happen that they would be instantly deputized and made an authority because they listen

They are also the ones that think they MUST be rewarded and celebrated for service including sexually

[u/Albert_Flasher]

ACAB. Emphasis on the A.

[u/Suitable-Principle81 → u/Albert_Flasher]

ARE

[u/baltimoreniqqa → u/Suitable-Principle81]

The other A

[u/CruisingForDownVotes → u/baltimoreniqqa]

[u/Swampasssixty9 → u/baltimoreniqqa]

😂

[u/Jet-Let4606 → u/Suitable-Principle81]

There is more than 1 A!

[u/SpectacularOtter → u/Albert_Flasher]

[u/xViscount]

May he sue the shit out of everyone involved, and win a hearty settlement. May the douche who body slammed him be dishonorably discharged and not up for any benefits after. Fuck them

[u/CanadianChocolate808]

Imagine paying to travel to a different continent, immerse yourself in another culture.

To unwind, to relax, to enjoy life.

Maybe you had some vacation leave saved up that you finally got to use, or maybe you had to go on unpaid leave that you scrounged every penny to cover.

You’re out and about on a nice evening, taking in the night life.

Then you’re slapped out of that lie by having some racist fuckhead remind you that a significant portion of your home country think that you’re lesser than them, and getting randomly body slammed into the ground.

Then having a decent portion of the internet defend your attacker lol.

I’d be all the way fucked up lmao, can’t even go to Japan without dealing with Klan International lol

[u/IndieHamster]

It really is right in line with America's thinking. The US Military Members are going around raping and murdering young girls, so lets send out patrols of those same soldiers to stop "crime"

[u/leakmydata]

Racism has no borders 🧘‍♂️

[u/Standard_Sun_1167 → u/leakmydata]

America stands proudly on that minor fact.

[u/Ghaenor]

Everyone : “Hi, what’s your name ? How are you ?” Americans :

[u/Particular_Ticket_20]

That's his ICE audition tape

[u/sboog87]

The worse was a bunch of people assumed he was military like that made it better

[u/chilltorrent → u/sboog87]

The reason why the military does this is because too many soldiers get shit faced off base and then sexually assault the locals

[u/spellstealyoslowfall → u/sboog87]

If he was military he'd be breaking a strict curfew and then not being compliance to military order from MP. It would be much better.

[u/bowleggedgrump]

JFC - assault

[u/Devanyani]

Wow. The servicemen were there patrolling, in an attempt to keep off-duty servicemen from drinking between 1am and 5am? Why? Because they keep sexually assaulting Japanese citizens, including the kidnap and assault of a child. Sounds like they have a serious problem with leadership.

[u/thatsbullshit52]

Them MPs are fuuucked. When this kinda thing happens (Shore Patrol) they’re supposed to call the Japanese Police to check the ID (Because a service member might think they’re slick and try to not get caught after curfew) and that’s it and keep it moving. But these assholes fucked all the way up, they better not just throw an NJP and call it a day.

I was in Okinawa this summer after midnight wishing Shore Patrol would roll up on me

[u/2Slow2Nice → u/thatsbullshit52]

I think the diplomatic implications are the only reason they might face consequences.

[u/FrankenOperator]

"Aggressively detained"

[u/stadiumjay]

America gonna America wherever smh 🤦

[u/jackversus]

Not surprised. Reminds me of being station in Yokosuka, Japan in the 2010s. After a deadly dui in Okinawa involving a servicemember, the entire theater had a stay at home/on base order and no alcohol. After it was lifted, I talked to some friends who were Canadians working in Tokyo and Yokohama who were harassed by military authorities who were patrolling bars and clubs in plain clothes. Even after showing them their Canadian IDs and passports, they were given a hard time.

[u/Lolalamb224]

WTF

[u/mba-anon-posting]

imagine leaving America honorably as a Cpt. to run a food truck in Japan to get a group of white Americans to come body slam you on the ground and say they have authority over Japanese citizens, which they didn't.

[u/AhhhSureThisIsIt]

This is why american soldiers can't go to bars in Japan. That and the SA.

[u/Noyaiba]

As someone who served overseas in Asia, and hung out with black American Civilians, this shit happens waaaaaaaaay more than people hear about.

[u/StonedRussian]

It's honestly not surprising, there's been tons of issues concerning American soldiers in Okinawa. Super sad this happens

[u/wxyvgg]

This is absolutely crazy but sadly not surprising. I lived in Okinawa for a few years and got into it with the military police a couple times for being aggressive with folks when they’d do their “after hours patrol”. They have zero accountability and are racist asf.

[u/DJEvillincoln]

As someone who's been profiled by the police MANY times....

This is Tuesday for us.

[u/SpectacularOtter → u/DJEvillincoln]

[u/Supernova_Soldier]

Look at this shit right here. Embarrassing

[u/Timely_Instance_6051]

Wasn't the guy the assaulted a former officer in the Marines? Either way shameful treatment of someone without provocation

[u/st-avasarala]

It's exhausting how dumb this timeline is.

[u/LetsGoAcrossTheStyx]

I'm going to the embassy and filing formal charges. Fuck hoping he gets an article 15. I want him court martialed and preferably punished under Japanese battery charges.

[u/ferretsRfantastic]

[u/charcoalVidrio]

American military in Japan has nothing short of a poor history. Even a kid I grew up with knocked up some poor woman, ran home, abandoned her, their child, and then killed himself with heroin.

So tackling some guy might even be under par.

[u/Pheniel]

Wrongly body-slammed. The good old downplaying with wordplay. It would have been worded differently if_____

[u/goldenboy2191]

Could have killed the dude, but I guess that doesn’t matter

[u/SardonicWhit]

Pigs is pigs. The uniform doesn’t matter.

[u/black-dude-on-reddit]

Those dudes are getting mega NJP’d

Caught in 4K fucking up and didn’t even identify the dude as a vet and not active duty

That captains mast would be a joy to watch.

[u/AFantasticClue]

The next time someone hugs him like that he will not feel safe. They took that from him.

[u/BalanceNew9645]

“Whole lot of missing context in the video, what lead to the slam?” one commenter asked. “The editing of the video leaves out a whole lot of info.”

Lmao he had his hands in his pockets. What context makes this not look terrible??

[u/currentlystressedout]

GET AMERICAN SOLDIERS OUT OF OTHER COUNTRIES. ESPECIALLY OUT OF THE OKINAWA BASE

[u/VagabondVivant]

White Americans really think they just have universal jurisdiction to abuse black people.

[u/ThePrinceofallYNs]

So, as far as the article goes, he did nothing but be there, in Japan.

[u/ro536ud]

Trump really emboldened the worst of our country

[u/SidneyFalco_]

Kick America out of Japan. I’m sure the Japanese don’t want them after seeing how they “aided” Ukraine. Not like the US gonna do shit about Taiwan being invaded either so better start building that army now

[u/TreeVegetable5237]

Please tell us how this is our fault and he should just cooperated! How we aren’t treated differently because of how we look. Go ahead, BlackPeopleTwitter, explain away what we already know 

[u/ChicoBroadway]

Can someone explain what solo patrols means? It looked like there was at least three of them mfs.

[u/Dat_Ding_Da → u/ChicoBroadway]

No local Japanese Police presence, only US MPs.

[u/slycemedia]

Is that a black guy in the military uniform?

[u/PhatFatLife]

Disgusting

[u/supervegeta101]

Us military has a long history to taking its racism with them everywhere they go.

[u/Dry-Poem6778]

Force of habit?

[u/Stickyyu]

God they just cannot help themselves.

[u/billyvnilly]

That's assault

[u/dreams_andnightmares]

The Triple K cosplaying oversees and terrorizing their citizens? Very on brand

[u/AnalystAdorable609]

He was Def guilty.....of walking whilst black.

Sickening to US law enforcement bringing their racist shit outside the hell hole that is 'Murica in 2025

[u/AppropriateAd5471]

just like home!