Anyone seen woman arrested for saying f****t in a private text message?

Some of us bothered to look up with whole story though before just jumping to "you can't say anything these days!" When what you can't actually do is send a "barrage" of messages that distress someone.

The patriarchy.

The use of the word was the clickbait story that started the whole discussion, way before more information was added.

You don’t have to like my viewpoint. It’s okay to be different.

Yes, I am being deliberate because of how ridiculous this is. Yet, I am not miscontruing anything.

Where does anyone say that?

I agree. Some believe though that using the word on its own is a crime in itself

You completely, and deliberately, misconstrued what was said.

Oh dear, is @randomchap keen to police women who slag off men who beat the shit out of them? Gotta keep those bitches in line one way or the other huh?

Where are these coppers when Tommy Robinson is being racist?

So did my grandmother who was from the North-East.

Because they would be breaking every data protection law going. NHS/medical professionals can't disclose anything about those treated, regardless of whether the person themselves publicised their own information. For this reason, any such reporting of incidents/cases are going to be very one-sided

Nope. The offence is the malicious communication. 'f**t' is the aggravating factor.

Now we are getting somewhere.

You believe that "even without an aggravating factor" she still committed a crime. Which means that, to refer to someone as f-t in a private conversation is a criminal offence on its own.

So yes, going back to my original post which you queried, I was serious and I was gobsmacked. And yes, I would really like to know what insults can be used safely in private correspondence without being branded a criminal (no less).

For God's sake, "d--e" is used to refer to lesbians even by Netflix and nobody banned "The Beast in Me".

unless she sent like 100 messages and wouldn't stop.

You have no idea how may messages she sent or whether she'd stop. It's described as a 'barrage' in some reports, which suggests more than a few.

Right and referring to the 15 year old child as a young woman, when the press usually refer to grown women as girls, is what?

Doubling down on your bullshit? Tedious

Maybe follow the provided links and read her sentence

its certainly not hyperbole. Hurty words are the same as some very serious crimes. It should be taken extremely seriously and the book should be thrown at the alleged perpetrator.

She didn't make the comment online; she made the comment in person to a police officer, as she was being brought home after being involved in a disturbance in the city centre. From the IOPC investigation report:

"Our investigation looked at one of the officer’s actions and interactions with the girl on the night to determine whether they were appropriate and proportionate in line with approved police policies and training.

We established that officers were called to Leeds city centre to a disturbance involving the girl and officers made the decision to take her back home, rather than make an arrest.

Once back at the home address, the evidence suggested a potentially homophobic comment was made by the girl, which the officer believed was directed towards her. The evidence identified that the comment made was not as was reported on the short clip which appeared on social media. As a result, the officer took the decision to arrest the girl in relation to this offence.

We concluded that WYP officers at the address on the whole did attempt to de-escalate the situation and the level of force used appeared to have been appropriate in the circumstances.

However, we did find that some of the language used by one of the officers towards the girl was inappropriate and was not conducive to de-escalating the situation.

Our investigation found that the officer did not have a case to answer for misconduct or gross misconduct. However, we decided that it would be appropriate for the officer to undertake reflective practice – to reflect and learn from the incident to prevent any issues identified from re-occurring, as their actions fell short of the expectations of the public and the police service as set out in the Code of Ethics."

So the police didn't cover themselves in glory here. But they are also not banging down a door to arrest a child for something they said online.

The 'friend' she messaged is described as 'the victim' so the offence is likely the messages causing her distress. I'd imagine it was reported maliciously as most people wouldn't be offended enough by this to involve the police, unless she sent like 100 messages and wouldn't stop.

Yay, more hyperbole that's just what this thread needs

Hurty words are literal violence so I assume she’s going to go to jail for a good few years.