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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Aug 18, 2018, 09:10 PM Aug 2018

Uganda police arrest US citizen after viral video shows attack on hotel workers

Police in Uganda said they arrested a U.S. citizen this week after reviewing video that appeared to show him physically attacking hotel employees.

The official account for the Uganda Police Force wrote on Twitter Friday that they had arrested Jimmy Taylor after reviewing footage of the incident, which occurred at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala, Uganda.

Taylor was detained at the Central Police Station in Kampala and is being charged with assault, police wrote on their official Twitter account.

"Thank you for your vigilance and sending us a video of an incident that happened at Grand Imperial Hotel. We have arrested the suspect, Jimmy Taylor, an American citizen," the Uganda Police Force Twitter account wrote. "He was detained at the Central Police Station, Kampala on charges of assault. #CommunityPolicing"




Video of the incident was posted on Facebook and shows a man, identified as Taylor, striking hotel workers and telling them to obey his orders.

The clip begins with Taylor jumping over the reception desk and knocking what appear to be glass items off of tables. He later comes to the hotel lobby where he is seen hitting one of the employees and accusing them of hating Jesus.

“F--k Uganda,” Taylor says in the video. “I’ve come to love Uganda, I’ve come to help Uganda, but Uganda hates Jesus through this son-of-a-bitch.

Taylor later states that the employees need to “obey what I say.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/402498-us-citizen-arrested-in-uganda-after-attacking-hotel-workers-in
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Uganda police arrest US citizen after viral video shows attack on hotel workers (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2018 OP
What's he doing in our shithole country? malaise Aug 2018 #1
Lock him up. We don't want him back. No absentee ballot for him. Marcuse Aug 2018 #2
What a disturbing and disgusting UGLY AMERICAN. secondwind Aug 2018 #3
All I could think of when I saw that video was Christopher Hitchen's book Poiuyt Aug 2018 #4
Definitely Deserves A Ride On Disney Fist... Grassy Knoll Aug 2018 #5
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