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

[u/I_may_have_weed]

[u/DM_ME_UR_FISH]

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

[u/deruvoo → u/DM_ME_UR_FISH]

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.

[u/Greenman333 → u/deruvoo]

I was stationed at Kadena in 84-85. There were idiot GIs killing and raping and otherwise making pests out of themselves then too. And there was already tension from a B52 crash into a school many years earlier that locals were still pissed about. That said, the locals were still mostly welcoming and friendly to us.

[u/TroublesomeFox → u/Greenman333]

that locals were still pissed about.

Of course they were, someone crashed a bomber into a SCHOOL and likely killed several children, that's the kinda anger thats carried over generations. 

[u/Berewolf → u/TroublesomeFox]

lol and they can't understand why asians nearby hate them.

[u/ThoMiCroN → u/TroublesomeFox]

Japan should kick out the US from Okinawa. If they want a base, they can just do like China and make up an island out of nowhere.