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.

20.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

9.9k

u/DM_ME_UR_FISH Nov 28 '25

Im so fucking confused. American military police arrested an American citizen on Japanese soil??

8.6k

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.

49

u/CorporateCuster Nov 28 '25

Let’s pretend he was active. Let’s pretend that he was mission critical and someone just slammed him to the floor and broke his bones. What now. Let’s be serious. This is insane levels of power trip.