A Conservative councillor was arrested for an alleged hate crime after sharing a video criticising how the police dealt with a Christian street preacher.
Cllr Anthony Stevens, 50, from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, told The Telegraph he was arrested at his home this month and taken to a police station to be questioned about tweets from his personal account.
One tweet shared by Cllr Stevens in May was a video showing how officers had handled the arrest of Christian preacher Oluwole Ilisanmi in Southgate, London, in 2019.
The police officer took away Mr Ilisanmi’s Bible after the preacher was accused of being Islamophobic and Mr Ilisanmi later received £2,500 for wrongful arrest.
The video also showed an officer appearing to state that a Muslim preacher was permitted to preach on a high street.
