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https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/11/is-it-a-crime-to-call-a-police-officer-a-lesbian/
So many questions are left dangling here. If this ‘additional context’ exists, why haven’t we been provided with it? If the alleged offence took place ‘upon returning her to the address’, then how has she committed a public-order offence? (The Public Order Act has a so-called ‘dwelling defence’ to stop people being criminalised for comments made in their own homes.) Did the girl say anything other than what her mother has claimed? Surely, saying a cop resembles a lesbian is not an arrestable offence, even under Britain’s ridiculously censorious speech laws?
So many questions are left dangling here. If this ‘additional context’ exists, why haven’t we been provided with it? If the alleged offence took place ‘upon returning her to the address’, then how has she committed a public-order offence? (The Public Order Act has a so-called ‘dwelling defence’ to stop people being criminalised for comments made in their own homes.) Did the girl say anything other than what her mother has claimed? Surely, saying a cop resembles a lesbian is not an arrestable offence, even under Britain’s ridiculously censorious speech laws?