.@SurreyPolice consider this a public order offence and wish to arrest the person who posted it.
Please retweet if you disagree this is a public order offence and that the police should have better things to do.
Please retweet if you disagree this is a public order offence and that the police should have better things to do.
Even if this met the evidential requirements for a public order offence - and we really don’t see how it does - how is it in the public interest for the police to be investigating this?
First step is surely to make complaint to the social media site on which the picture was posted. If the site finds it does not breach terms and conditions of its use, then surely that is an end to if.
We can see that euphoria after Miller v CoP was short lived. There is an ingrained and harmful response now hard baked into police forces - that the feelings of offence from one particular minority group overwhelm the actual law or any common sense application of it.
2022 will therefore be the year of injunctions and damages, over and over again until lessons are finally learned.
Seriously. Tell us how this is a public order offence. It’s clearly a joke. What ‘intent’ do they think they can prove here?
Or how does it fall within section 5? How is any of this ‘threatening or abusive’?
We spoke with the investigating Constable. He is being directed by a Detective Inspector who is on a mission to find a crime. The suspect is now under threat of arrest for refusing to turn himself in voluntarily. For a retweet.
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