Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(
Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, there’d be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She’s a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.
Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, SO WHAT FUCK OFF COP, INSULTS AREN’T ILLEGAL!!!
Fixed that for you.
I’m an autist, and I very well might have meant it as a burn.
The article mentions drink was involved - I don’t know if its the neurodivergence or just me, but I could definitley find myself saying that if met someone who looked like my gay Nan while having a pissed up panic attack
That is a pretty sick brurn though. Good on ya, autistic lady whether you meant it as an insult or not. Sorry about the pigs throwing a temper tantrum
If this girl is so far gone she can’t stop herself from accidently being homophobic, why were the parents letting her out to drink on the street at midnight?
I’m sorry what?
You clearly read the article to know she was intoxicated, so you must have also seen the kids words quoted as "you look like my Nana, she’s a lesbian.
That’s oversharing, people do that on a normal day, let alone that she was an intoxicated neurodiverse child having a panic attack. Without context it’s not an insult, with context its a child being manhandled while in distress.
It seems like you have a problem with her as a person for either being a drunk teenager, neurodivergent or possibly something else? Kids fuck about, the consequences in this instance should be a hangover and a stern talking to, not assault and arrest.
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Honestly, I don’t think it is.
From an outside perspective, someone might genuinely have that opinion. It might be up for debate (and ratio), however.
From another, you could understand how someone was willing to take the risk to experience a more normal life.If she was 18 and drinking in a pub, I have no issue whatsoever. However she was 16 and drinking on the street at midnight. Her mother can’t allow her out to do that, but at the same time argue that she’s such a special delicate flower that she shouldn’t have to take criminal responsibility for hate speech. Pick a lane.
Also, if a 16-year-old in the UK wants to go out and get pissed, stopping them is no easy feat.
Police can’t handle entry level banter here, every officer I’ve dealt with has been a power tripping cunt including the PCSO’s who don’t even have arresting powers.
Yeah it’s the worst people that sign up for that job (obviously not all of them). Especially the parts where they wield power the density of assholes increases.
Nah, it’s all of em.
You’re telling me…
all cops are bastards?
No. Not all of them.
Some of them lack the brains
Bastard is as bastard does.
Especially the PCSOs.
Plastics are the absolute worst.
Unfortunately that’s how we humans are. We are giving power and we grow over other people. Its really hard to get power and stay close to the ground.
She is right. The cops here in the UK are bullies and they treat the public like crap. Bullied in school became a cop to get power, uses power to bully others. The way they treat people is awful. I work in accommodation for the homless and the diffrece in the way the police talk to me and them, is night and day.
Thing is, no one want to be friends with a cop or be in a relationship with them… could you imagen breaking up with a cop? Fuxk that! i’d sooner cut a finger off.
I think this applies everywhere. The power attracts a particular personality type that is less than trustworthy.
Oh yeah this is definitely the case, but if you know anything about UK playgrounds, you definitely know the type.
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Is freedom of speech not protected there? Or are the cops that much of a cunt that they ignore it?
Let’s just say… you have that freedom but who says they can’t get rough before you get a chance at some actual policing when you are in front of the Sargent.
They are on edge and jump at the opportunity to arrest someone for even a simple infraction, what makes it worse is that, resisting, talking back, swearing and in anyway make the police officer technically feel “upset” or “afraid” can add more to the case, so you can imagen a mouthy person getting manhandled like this person.
They love it.
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P.S Don’t get me wrong, there are good cops but its pay is shite, its just a job to some and the lack of funding is a joke. also for real, corruption needs to be addressed.
There is no equivalent of the first amendment in the UK - we don’t have the right to freedom of speech in that sense but do have freedom of expression (from the Human Rights Act if nowhere else).
It is an offence to say hate speech or commit certain offences against public order (which the police claimed in this case).
Effective the UK operates on all speech is legal unless it is legislated against, which hate speech is.
I figure it might be like here in the US. Nobody stops cops so they can enact vengeance at will
Contempt of cop is the only actual crime in any juristiction.
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When you’re a cop, you get to hurt anyone who upsets you in any way. The law is secondary, if it shows up at all. You’re a tool for indiscriminate violence.
I’m jealous of you guys that this is a scandal there.
We Americans would just be like “She’s still alive!? Cop must have gotten laid that morning or something to be in such an un-murdery mood.”
We will get there don’t you worry.
The UK police don’t have the funding to attrace the uterly ruthless. It isn’t reall fair.
Reminds me of Elijah McClain, he had autism. He was killed by police in Colorado via asphyxiation and ketemine. Not ketemine he had taken, no, they injected it to sedate him. I’ll bet you can guess his skin color too.
Nah Americans are crying about it and terrified it’s going to happen here. They’re cool with black people getting brutalized but now they’re worried their homophobia (not saying the girl was homophobic) is going to get them beat up. Kind of poetic.
“Upon returning her to the address, comments were made which resulted in the girl being arrested on suspicion of a homophobic public order offence. The nature of the comments made was fully captured on body-worn video.”
So they are justifying their behavior by calling her homophobic?
Not the first time they’ve pulled this kind of stunt, a few years ago an autistic teenager was arrested for asking a trans PCSO if he was a boy or a girl. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/teen-prosecuted-after-asking-whether-17651755
I’m not from the UK, what is a “public order offence”? Can that encompass anything “disturbing the public order”?
Alright.
So why are there like 8 police officers in the house before the arresting comment is even said?
Why was this fragile person with scoliosis and severe autism out, pissed up, past midnight on a Monday night in Leeds city centre?
I have no idea, but to play devil’s advocate, it kind of sounds like this kid is a piece of shit and got arrested for it, and the parents are hiding her behaviour behind the autism shield for sympathy.
I’m suddenly reminded of that dying man who mooned a speed camera only for loads of police to swarm his house later on.
Sounds to me like it’s the police who are homophobic, taking “lesbian” as an insult.
He must look like an aging lesbian. They’ve blurred his face in every picture.
Ah…a touchy subject.
That’s a solid burn though.
It’s not even a burn, if the officer is older they could very well look like that girl’s lesbian grandmother. And if they do, so what?
Exactly. The girl was stating a fact and it reminded the cop of when he used to get made fun of in grade school.
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Especially in Leeds. That policewoman is probably about the same age as her grandma.
Funny burn, awful treatment. Shame on the police.
🎶Fuck the police!🎶
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