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Suranis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 6:44 pm So far, so publicity hound. But he posed beside a pizza box in replying to Thunberg, and that showed the police he was in Romania, where he has an active warrant for his arrest. So the police swooped on his brothers house and his house and nabbed him again.

Greta Thunberg mocks Andrew Tate after he was arrested in Romania, possibly due to a tip-off from their Twitter fight

Greta Thunberg tweeted gleefully after Andrew Tate was arrested by police in Romania.

She gestured to a theory that Tate led police to his door with a stray pizza box in a video insulting her.

Tate was arrested as part of a human-trafficking investigation.

Greta Thunberg mocked Andrew Tate after he was detained by police in Romania, zooming in on a theory that a pizza box contributed to his arrest.

It came after Tate, an influencer known for misogynistic posts, picked a fight with Thunberg, boasting about his carbon emissions and prompting a putdown from the 19-year-old activist.

The feud escalated after Thunberg told Tate to direct his concerns to "smalldickenergy@getalife.com," provoking an angry video from Tate in return.

Tate was given pizzas during the video, and told a person off-screen to make sure they didn't get recycled, another dig at Thunberg's climate activism.

Not long after, on Thursday, Tate was arrested by Romanian authorities in Bucharest as part of a human-trafficking investigation.

Officials accuse Tate, his brother, and two others of forcing women to make porn to be sold online, according to Reuters.

Romanian investigators said in a press release that the investigation concerned six women, at least one of whom was raped. Tate, Reuters reported, would be detained for 24 hours.

It isn't clear that the pizza boxes played a part in Tate's arrest, but the theory has gained traction online and there is some evidence to support it.

The Romanian news site Gandul reported that authorities watched Tate's social-media posts for proof he was in Romania, and his video did contain that kind of evidence.

Tate's video showed boxes from Jerry's Pizza, a Romanian chain with branches in Bucharest, that had Romanian text on them. Tate also posted a video of scenery on December 25 captioned "Romania."

Civil-rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo said on Twitter that the pizza post may have given authorities the certainty they needed to act. It contained evidence of both a location and also a time, since it responded to a new argument with Thunberg, she said.

The boxes with the pizza chain’s logo allegedly allowed Romanian police to pinpoint Tate’s location, leading to his capture.

Within hours, the Google page for Jerry’s Pizza was flooded with hundreds of gushing reviews.

“Pizza so good you’d incriminate yourself for it,” one internet wit wrote.

“The pizza is so unique that people can tell what country it’s from. Andrew Tate learned that the hard way,” a second reviewer gushed.

Claim - A Jerry's Pizza box that was visible in a video posted by former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate led to his arrest in Romania on human trafficking charges.
Rating:
False


In late December 2022, readers emailed us to ask if the Dec. 29 arrest of divisive social media star Andrew Tate in Romania had only been made possible thanks to a Jerry's Pizza box that was visible in one of his own recent videos. The pizza company is a brand that's local to that country. 

A popular tweet that pushed this rumor read, "Romanian authorities needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country so they reportedly used his social media posts. His ridiculous video yesterday featured a pizza from a Romanian pizza chain, Jerry's Pizza, confirming he was in the country. This is absolutely epic."

However, we soon found that this rumor was false.

Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson from Romania's anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said that the rumor was "funny," but was not true, according to The Associated Press (AP).

The AP also noted that, earlier in the same week, Tate had "posted a video on Twitter of a mountainous region of Romania, the Eastern European country where he is reported to have lived for the last five years." In other words, he had already indicated on his public social media presence that he was in the country.

In the video that Tate posted with the Jerry's Pizza boxes, he appeared to be attempting to respond in a clever manner to an extremely popular comeback tweet from Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.

As we reported in a different story, Thunberg's tweet had mocked Tate with a "small dick energy" joke after he had originally mentioned her name while bragging about his luxury car collection "and their respective enormous emissions." Her tweet received more than 3.5 million likes, far more than the hundreds of thousands of likes that Tate's tweets brought in.

Tate was initially detained for 24 hours on charges of human trafficking and rape. His brother Tristan was also part of the arrest, as were two other women, one who was described as a former policewoman. It's unclear if Tate will be released, but his Twitter account did show new tweets as of Dec. 30, apparently after the 24-hour period had ended.

According to The AP's reporting, Bolla said that prosecutors were attempting to extend the arrest warrant to 30 days.

DIICOT said in a statement late Thursday that the four suspects in the case, which include two British citizens and two Romanians, were arrested on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking and rape.

The agency said the British citizens recruited women who were subjected to "acts of physical violence and mental coercion," sexually exploited by group members and forced to perform pornographic acts intended to reap "important financial benefits."

The statement didn't name the Tate brothers. Photographs published by Romanian media outlets appeared to show Tate being led away in handcuffs by masked law enforcement officers.

DIICOT said it identified six people who were sexually exploited by the organized criminal group, and that five homes were raided on Thursday.

In the weeks before Tate's arrest, his Twitter account had been reinstated after Elon Musk took ownership of the company. Tate was previously banned from the platform in 2017 after posting tweets that the company found violated its policies. At least one of those tweets said that women should bear "some responsibility" for being sexually assaulted, according to CBS News.

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Indiana Lab Worker Fired Following Vicious Threats To Rep. Eric Swalwell, Family
The incident came on the heels of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy saying: “If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have Swalwell on any committee.”

Mary Papenfuss
Jan 13, 2023, 08:05 PM EST

An Indiana lab worker has been fired by his company following threats he allegedly posted against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and his family.

Those threats and others came hard on the heels of another attack on Swalwell by new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as he again vowed to bounce Swalwell off the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

A tweet sent to Swalwell Friday night from the account of lab worker Jonathan Reeser vowed to “break” Swalwell’s “f**king face” if he ever saw him in person and said he wished the lawmaker’s family would be “raped and murdered.”

Swalwell reposted the message on Twitter to track down Reeser.

Patients Choice Laboratories soon after issued a statement Saturday, saying an employee, whom it did not name, had been terminated, “effective immediately,” following an internal investigation into the comments.

The diagnostic laboratory company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, stated it was “appalled” by the comments made by the fired employee.




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/indiana- ... 724fcdf329

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:02 pm I thought most cities had public decency laws? How is this allowed? If’n he posted it on Fogbow he’d be baned.

bob wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:11 pm

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:02 pm I thought most cities had public decency laws? How is this allowed? If’n he posted it on Fogbow he’d be baned.

First Amendment, etc.