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Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ (www.thepinknews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] jumperalex 42 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I'm an autist, and I very well might have meant it as a burn.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Nah, it's all of em.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Especially the PCSOs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Plastics are the absolute worst.

[–] electrogamerman 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] AllonzeeLV 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] zaph 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this applies everywhere. The power attracts a particular personality type that is less than trustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah this is definitely the case, but if you know anything about UK playgrounds, you definitely know the type.

[–] RivenRise 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is freedom of speech not protected there? Or are the cops that much of a cunt that they ignore it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

Edit: some spelling

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] captainlezbian 1 points 1 year ago

I figure it might be like here in the US. Nobody stops cops so they can enact vengeance at will

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

Contempt of cop is the only actual crime in any juristiction.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] qaz 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

“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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not from the UK, what is a "public order offence"? Can that encompass anything "disturbing the public order"?

[–] drekly 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm suddenly reminded of that dying man who mooned a speed camera only for loads of police to swarm his house later on.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He must look like an aging lesbian. They've blurred his face in every picture.

[–] zaph 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah...a touchy subject.

[–] Madbrad200 10 points 1 year ago

Funny burn, awful treatment. Shame on the police.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

🎶Fuck the police!🎶