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Controversial U.S. livestreamer arrested over trespassing in Osaka (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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OSAKA – An American man known for streaming provocative videos has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a construction site in Osaka, police said Friday.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 23, known as "Johnny Somali" on YouTube, was arrested with another American, Jeremiah Dwane Branch, 24, who says he is a university student, according to police.

Ismael's videos include those in which he makes light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and makes racist comments about Japanese people.

The two men allegedly made an unauthorized entry into a hotel construction site in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Aug. 30 with Branch filming a masked Ismael at the scene, according to the police.

They have told police they will not speak until they see lawyers, police said.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will not speak until they see lawyers

If I remember correctly, police in Japan can hold you without a lawyer for 21 days, and then renew the detention more or less indefinitely.

I hope that they didn't try to claim their Miranda or fifth amendment rights.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

i think i read something similar on reddit years back. someone was arrested and everything was in japanese and he couldn't read anything. the police and lawyers were asking him to plead guilty or something and he was adamant on a lawyer which he never got. he was in jail for months i think.