Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-21 month agoNo criminal charges over British woman shot in US during a holidaywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down11
arrow-up1143arrow-down1external-linkNo criminal charges over British woman shot in US during a holidaywww.bbc.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square48linkfedilink
minus-squareSpaceShort@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoThe UK should expell US diplomats over this, or at least cease all US trade talks.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 month agoWe didn’t even expel them when one of them killed somebody in the UK…
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoanne sorkin was on the wrong side oncoming traffic and fatally struck a brit, and she fled to embassy for protection.
minus-squareDenjin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWhich she wasn’t entitled to. Diplomatic immunity doesn’t cover spouses.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI don’t think it even covers CIA spooks, does it? I thought it was just for embassy staff.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoAnne Sacoolas, not Sorkin. Anna Sorkin was the woman who pretended to be rich and then a load of US banks just gave her a load of free money. And apparently it’s illegal when poor people do that, so she went to prison.
The UK should expell US diplomats over this, or at least cease all US trade talks.
We didn’t even expel them when one of them killed somebody in the UK…
anne sorkin was on the wrong side oncoming traffic and fatally struck a brit, and she fled to embassy for protection.
Which she wasn’t entitled to. Diplomatic immunity doesn’t cover spouses.
I don’t think it even covers CIA spooks, does it? I thought it was just for embassy staff.
Potato potato
Anne Sacoolas, not Sorkin.
Anna Sorkin was the woman who pretended to be rich and then a load of US banks just gave her a load of free money. And apparently it’s illegal when poor people do that, so she went to prison.