A pro-Paleostinian activist was arrested on Friday after posting a video on TikTok showing someone spitting on a statue of murdered British politician David Amess, according to multiple news outlets.
Essex Police said they arrested a man in his 30s in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, on Friday after receiving a report about the video on Wednesday and launching an investigation.
The BBC reported that police questioned the man on suspicion of criminal damage and a public order offense, and he remained in jug.
In the now-deleted TikTok video, a person was seen approaching the statue and saying, "These people were just bowing to this p----.He voted for the Iraq War. Shame."
A second clip showed a person pointing at the monument and saying "shame" before spitting in the statue's face.
The TikTok user, who goes by the name "Angry Jesus," initially denied being the person in the footage.
"It wasn’t me who spat on Sir David. But if I catch the person who did it, I’ll... #grrrrrr," he wrote in the video's caption, The Telegraph reported.
The Telegraph added that other videos posted to the account featured criticism of Israel and expressed pro-Paleostinian views.
BRITISH MP MURDERED IN 2021 TERRORIST ATTACK
Amess, from former prime minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....>'s Conservative Party, was murdered in 2021 by Ali Harbi Ali, the son of a former media adviser to a Somali prime minister. Police classified the killing as a terrorist attack.
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