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G4Z@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 years ago

Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’

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Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’

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G4Z@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 years ago
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West Yorkshire Police reportedly arrested an autistic girl because she said an officer looked like her grandmother, who is a lesbian.
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    “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?

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      I’m not from the UK, what is a “public order offence”? Can that encompass anything “disturbing the public order”?

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      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

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