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Merseyside Police

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TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 02/03/2021 14:36

If there’s a thread on this already I’ll ask for this to be deleted, but I just saw this and find it very, very scary:

twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1363627584236437504

Merseyside Police proclaiming to the public that:

“BEING OFFENSIVE IS AN OFFENCE”

With a massive rainbow alongside just to make it absolutely clear who no one is allowed to be “offensive” to.

I mean, didn’t we have a JR recently where the judge ruled the exact opposite? That being offensive is not an offence, that nobody is entitled never to be offended? That it’s a good thing we’ve never had a Gestapo or Cheka or Stasi here?

Isn’t this literally the police rewriting the law themselves?

I’m really struggling to look at this picture and not think “police state”.

Chilling effect.

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Justhadathought · 02/03/2021 14:57

They have made these ‘mistakes’ often enough now and they need to seriously train their thugs better, or be made to disband the whole thing

Merseyside police are not " thugs". they do a good job in often very difficult circumstances. And next time you request, or require their assistance i hope you remember that.

As for the banner on the police van; someone higher up apologised for that. It seems that many organisations are exposed by people lower down the chain, or in some social media office, going off on one and doing their own thing.

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TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 02/03/2021 14:54

@Liquorishtoffee

They did post another tweet - well someone higher up with authority did - to say that this was well meaning but incorrect. Im not sure if they came back with details of who created, wrote, signed off and paid for the campaign...
That’s good to hear at least - don’t suppose you have a link to that?
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Ninkanink · 02/03/2021 14:51

As in train their officers to be absolutely clear on the fact that they’re not thugs! That they don’t make Law, they serve the law.

Ninkanink · 02/03/2021 14:49

It shouldn’t fucking happen in the first place though!

They have made these ‘mistakes’ often enough now and they need to seriously train their thugs better, or be made to disband the whole thing.

ShaneTheThird · 02/03/2021 14:49

Yes it was a horrible photo all right. Merseyside police are utter horrors anyway but this really takes the biscuit. They have rainbows on their cars, some on their uniforms as badges. Its very much a chilling political statement they are making as they decide to make up their own laws.

Ninkanink · 02/03/2021 14:48

It’s absolutely out of order.

The police as an institution need taking in hand.

They are no longer fit for purpose. They no longer serve the people. They no longer even uphold the law.

Just throw their weight around, like a little privately sponsored army.

It makes me so angry.

Liquorishtoffee · 02/03/2021 14:46

They did post another tweet - well someone higher up with authority did - to say that this was well meaning but incorrect. Im not sure if they came back with details of who created, wrote, signed off and paid for the campaign...

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TalkingtoLangClegintheDark · 02/03/2021 14:43

Merseyside Police stand with and support the LGBTQI+ community, we will not tolerate Hate Crime on any level

More rewriting of the law. Causing offence is now not just potentially a “hate incident”, it’s a full on Hate Crime, according to MP.

And what about police neutrality? Can they really claim to be ignorant of the fact there’s a growing grassroots feminist movement which challenges “LGBTQI+” ideology? And yet they’re clearly saying they support those on one side of this debate? How can women expect fair and impartial policing when the police are openly boasting about being partisan? (Rhetorical question. I know we can’t.)

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