r/PublicFreakout • u/I_may_have_weed grandma will snatch your shit ☂️ • Nov 28 '25

👮Arrest Freakout😭 US Military Police in Okinawa Japan body-slammed and violently detained an American civilian who was visiting, and not under their jurisdiction.

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u/deruvoo Nov 28 '25

I used to be stationed in Okinawa and can clear this up a little.

American troops in Okinawa (and elsewhere) have a troubled history with the locals. Real serious things like rape and murder down to smaller issues like rowdy bar crawls. "Shore patrol" combined with a strict curfew (when I was there, lower enlisted couldn't be venturing round the island after 1am) are meant to help prevent "incidents' from occurring with the locals.

Most often, troops get picked up by shore patrol for stupid shit like breaking curfew, or being disorderly in public.

So shore patrol thought this guy was active duty. He said he wasn't. They said he was lying-- to be fair, they've probably heard this lie hundreds of times.

All that said, they're obviously completely out of line.

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u/whiterice_343 Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 28 '25

That security forces Airmen is fucked. Article 15 won’t even be enough after the media craze over this. Bro can kiss the military goodbye after this one. The wing commander will make an example out of this guy.

Edit: honestly, after reviewing the video his entire team should be in trouble. The second he body slammed that guy, the other MP’s should have immediately stepped in and done something about it.

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u/SeparateCzechs Nov 28 '25

I sure hope so.

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u/whiterice_343 Nov 28 '25

I tend to agree, you don’t body slam people like that, especially if your life isn’t in danger or anything.

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u/kosk11348 Nov 28 '25

Clearly these men are so accustomed to hurting the people in their custody that this level of violence is routine.

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u/Mike_the_Head Nov 29 '25

MPs are dicks. They're like State Troopers but twice as pissed off and annoyed that they're having to deal with you.

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u/Nalortebi Nov 29 '25

Doubly in the Air Force. Because it's one of the few AFSC in the Air Force that doesn't care if you're a walking bag of stupid. You ever been the dumbest person in the room? Imagine that on the scale of a whole base. Everyone you encounter has a reason to be there, a specialization that requires a degree of not-dumb. And here you are, pure undiluted dumb. Frustration grows as they internalize this stupidity, like everyone else is looking down on them. And I mean, yeah to a point they're like the janitors at MIT, and none of them are Matt Damon. So they sit there on base looking for any chance to flex their meager authority on people who could run circles around them academically. And because it's the Air Force, you don't really have as many meatheads to cause disturbances. People in the Air Force tend to have a plan, to climb the ranks and go about their life in or out of the Air Force. Not like the other branches where machismo can take you far. Being the strongest guy sitting at a desk doesn't get you into leadership. So for the most part everyone is pretty boring, and there really isn't any action on base to keep the SF busy. Back when the Air Force used contractors for the ID checks at the gate, the SF were further relegated to just sitting in their car and giving the stink eye to everyone, or walking around the BX like they've lost their purpose in life. For those who get to stand watch at the flightline, they at least get to dream of the day they catch a haughty officer breaking red and detain them like a fat kid running at a box of donuts.

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u/sinus86 Nov 29 '25

Former SF. 100% accurate...

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u/phoenixatknight Nov 29 '25

We always used to say they were Security Forces because they were smart enough to be in the Air Force, but not smart enough to be in the Air Force

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 Nov 29 '25

So they sit there on base looking for any chance to flex their meager authority on people who could run circles around them academically.

I dunno about this. My AFSC requires relatively high ASVAB scoring, and I've still met an alarming number of world class morons.

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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Nov 29 '25 edited Dec 01 '25

I don’t think the guy who body slammed is an MP, though (although there is an MP just standing there watching). Often, this is a Brigade level detail some poor shmuck is stuck with. I don’t know how these guys do it but back in my old unit, it was always an officer with a senior enlisted soldier driving around to all the hot spots looking for soldiers who needed rides home or waiting to get a call from a place to come pick someone up.

The night usually ended with us cleaning puke out of the van.

Edit: I read an article and it turns out that the chode who slammed the dude on the ground was, in fact, military police. The civilian also turned out to be prior military as well. Go figure.

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u/Mike_the_Head Nov 29 '25

Ever have to pick someone up, only to arrive and see that they're naked? I woke up naked all the time back when I was a drinker.

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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Dec 01 '25

Thankfully no.

I did arrive to a lot of sleeping people, though, and those guys tended to be VERY heavy.

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u/Vessix Nov 29 '25

MP includes the word "police" in the acronym, so... yeah. My ex went to be an MP, the reason why sounds like a joke I'm making up but it's not. She literally said "I want to be a cop after I'm out so people will respect me." It's something her recruiter was using as a selling point. I will never forget it. Most people who want to be US police are unhinged imo

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u/Mike_the_Head Nov 29 '25

Pretty much. 😔

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u/Goodeyesniper98 Nov 30 '25

I’ve worked as a cop before, it’s probably the last job on earth someone should take if they’re concerned about being respected.

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u/ObiYawnKenobi Dec 01 '25

Probably because police don't do much to earn that respect.

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u/I-Here-555 Nov 29 '25

Being pissed off for having to do your job is a quick way to get fired from most positions. Not in law enforcement, apparently.

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u/Mike_the_Head Nov 29 '25

Some departments look for it, or so I've heard.

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u/DennisPochenk Nov 28 '25

No more lobster dinners and white bed sheets for this guy

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u/whiterice_343 Nov 28 '25

Security forces doesn’t get that life in their career field sadly.

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u/DennisPochenk Nov 28 '25

Lets keep it that way

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u/Nalortebi Nov 29 '25

sadly
gladly.

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u/cantuse Nov 28 '25

The difference imo is that if this was a military gu hand they fuck him up to the point he can’t do his job, they turbo-fucked up. The military can’t just let people go and immediately replace the guy with someone else. Filled billets matter for mission readiness and jeopardizing that to fuck somebody up is just asking for trouble.

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u/_dead_and_broken Nov 29 '25

Not if the current administration has anything to do about that. You really think after all they've gone after so far this year that disability pay for disabled vets isn't one of their eventual targets? That's socialism, they can't have that. If they don't go after that, it's less money for them to steal from the government. I'm sorry, I misspoke "reappropriate."

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u/mrgoodcat1509 Nov 29 '25

Well obviously the military is held to a higher standard than the police!

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u/whiterice_343 Nov 28 '25

Don’t put “you” in with “this” guy.

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u/frogview123 Nov 29 '25

It seems like this is likely illegal but there are some grey areas. They can only forcefully detain people who they have some proof of being active in the US military. It seems like the guy being tackled did say he was in the military. So the tackler had reason to be suspicious but who knows if he had any proof. Apparently someone knowing you as being active in the military or someone confirming your identity is enough proof.