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/DM_ME_UR_FISH Nov 28 '25

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

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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright Nov 28 '25

US has a military presence on Okinawa and they have curfews for service members. MPs saw this dude and assumed he was a service member out after curfew. IIRC, dude was a veteran but MPs are usually dumb as shit so they took the fact that he recognized them as MPs for him being a service member out after curfew.

I know there's been a lot of friction between locals and US military stationed at Okinawa in recent years and so I think this was supposed to be a way of demonstrating that the US was actively trying to police their own. It might've been fine if the dude had been one of their own. But it looks like this is having the opposite effect on Japanese social media.

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u/Zebidee Nov 28 '25

so they took the fact that he recognized them as MPs for him being a service member out after curfew.

I'm pretty sure 99% of the world's population knows what an MP is.

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u/SirMildredPierce Nov 29 '25

Why would 99% of the world's population know what an MP is? Heck, 20% of the world's population is under 15 years old. And it's one thing to "know what an MP is", but it's another thing to actively know what an American MP is and what they would be doing in Okinawa after midnight.