MEGA-THREAD: Vigilante violence and hard-right thugs

[Artaxerxes II]

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/tee ... tok-trend/

Police are trying to crack down on several gangs responsible for the social media trend.

Police are on offense confronting teenage gangs terrorizing gay men in “pedo hunts” in the Sydney area.

New South Wales (NSW) Police have run multiple strike forces and investigations for nearly a year into assaults across the city’s northern beaches, western and south-western suburbs, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Nearly a dozen organized attacks have been connected to the mostly teenaged gangs, likely a fraction of the actual number, police say.
In each case, the victims were gay men who arranged to meet in public parks with someone they met on a dating app like Grindr. Instead of a consensual hook-up, they were confronted by multiple teenagers, who then taunted, beat, and robbed the victims, sometimes using weapons.

Several of the victims were forced to confess to being pedophiles while being filmed, which led investigators to discover videos of the attacks online, including an Instagram account called “pedohunting_syd.”

The attacks and videos on social, including TikTok, are part of a trend known as “pedo hunting,” police say.

Seven attacks took place over five days in April alone, prompting police to form Strike Force Section in the areas affected. A 16-year-old boy was attacked in a public park on April 2, while four males in a car followed a 21-year-old through a square in a suburb asking if he was gay or Muslim. Four teenagers attacked and robbed the man and his friend.

At least five boys, ages 14 to 17, have been charged in connection with the assaults and robberies, as well as “corporal violence” and possessing unauthorized firearms. Police are describing the gang as a terror group.

A second squad, Strike Force Dividing, has made arrests over similar attacks around Sydney’s northern beaches, charging 14 youths with assault and extortion.

One gang, led by a 21-year-old, was intercepted on their way to an attack, police said. Members of another gang, including two juveniles and an 18-year-old ringleader, were apprehended as they traveled south out of Sydney.

Investigators have connected a member of the “pedo hunt” gangs to the attempted murder of a far-right Christian preacher, who was stabbed repeatedly in front of his congregation. “Extremist material” was found on the 16-year-old boy’s phone. He and six friends corresponding in a group chat were charged with terror offenses.

Gay men in the Sydney area were subject to an epidemic of violence from the 1970s to the 2000s while police looked the other way. The NSW government and NSW Police have since apologized for their institutional neglect and failure to secure justice for the victims of previous hate crime attacks.

The latest attacks, a police spokeswoman said, are being treated with the utmost seriousness.

The incidents are similar to those performed by ultra-nationalists in Russia a decade ago, who used social media to lure gay victims to meeting places, where they were then harassed, brutally beaten, humiliated and forced to perform sexual acts with inanimate objects.

[RoosterDance]

Hey, I just want to take this time to say thank you, Artaxerxes. Compiling all this news for us has helped me out a lot. I appreciate it.

[Jim Burton]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250106020 ... iktok.html

Five college students in Massachusetts are accused of luring a man to the Assumption University campus in a plot that the police said was inspired by the television show “To Catch a Predator” and a fad on TikTok.

The students were part of a larger group that chased the man from a campus building after he was invited there by a student on the dating app Tinder, expecting to meet an adult, according to a criminal complaint issued in Worcester District Court on Dec. 4.

[...]

Two students assaulted the man, the police said.

There was no indication that the man was trying to meet underage girls and the woman who invited him to the campus, Kelsy Brainard, 18, said on her Tinder profile that she was 18 years old, the police said. The police did not provide the man’s age.

Videos of the episode, which happened on Oct. 1, were shared among students and seen by the police, who said that minutes after the man arrived on campus, he was watching a baseball game on a couch in a student lounge with Ms. Brainard and there was “ample personal space between them.”

Suddenly, a large group of students appeared from hidden locations, the complaint said. The students berated the man “as a sexual offender,” grabbed him and blocked him from leaving the room, the police said.

This is what happens when fandom age-gap discourse graduates high-school ffs.

[Artaxerxes II]

It turns into real-life violence. Only time will tell when will such vigilante actions will stop. We are kind of witnessing that with an increasing part of the online leftist community turning away from Tik Tok vigilantes given the latter's unpalatable "wignat"-adjacent political views.

[Jim Burton]

We are everywhere. Even in the halls of power.

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/202 ... -arrested/

https://x.com/ReduxxMag/status/1878127089968128131

The former Labour MP for Hove, Ivor Caplin, was arrested today (Saturday 11 January) after a sting by paedophile hunters.

What if all of the MAPs in parliament unionised. That would be a force to reckon with.

[Jim Burton]

This guy is a former MP who has an X account ivorcaplin where he posts NSFW behind tags, including midgets and asian twinks.

Maybe he is bold enough to become a spokesperson for MAPs if he is at risk of losing everything.

[Lennon72]

I can see that he is part of the LGBT community. I too am on that spectrum. And so I find this to be rather bitter sweet as the LGBT community in general tend to deny that we are actually one of them.

[BLueRibbon]

The poor man looks terrified.

These 'predator hunters' are looking for any excuse to bully and hunt down people as a sport. The UK is especially evil for that mentality. So-called 'predators' are the easiest target, encouraged by the appalling discourse toward MAPs propagated by British establishment figures and wider society.

I hope one of these vigilantes eventually gets what they deserve.

[Jim Burton]

Comments:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-w ... n-34464113

https://www.outinperth.com/former-briti ... nte-group/

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... n-34463923

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... child.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... olice.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32746797/ ... -arrested/

https://www.gscene.com/news/former-labo ... h-a-child/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ex- ... able-elon/

[BLueRibbon]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/708461204535603/

This is the group that entrapped him. 'STOP Stings UK'.

Any information would be much appreciated.

b.ribbon@map-union.org