Yet more police idiocy.

Mouthing off?

Have you been outside lately?

Does this mean that Actual Nanna Lesbian also looks like Conan O’Brian and if so, can Actual Nanna L now sic the West Yorkshire Police on the twitter person?

I disagree with this. Meltdowns in autism are uncontrollable and not a choice. The police officer chose to abuse her power and commit a hate crime against a vulnerable autistic youngster for the "crime" of saying a slightly awkward comment. Her power-tripping tantrum is not comparable to an actual meltdown.

This! So much this!

My eldest (a boy) had a terrible time when puberty hit as it made his autistic meltdowns seem really scary (he went from little boy to over 6 ft within a single summer). We had police involvement three times and they were truly excellent with him. The one time he was arrested and driven away from the family home they immediately made arrangements for my best (male) friend to be his approved adult and released him to stay overnight with said friend within an hour or two.

They then made arrangements for my son to attend a Youth Offending Team appointment, which wasn’t in the police station but in a neighbouring building, and the YOT referred him for Multi Systemic Therapy via the NHS (something we wouldn’t have been able to access without the police involvement).
He’s 23 now and has no other contact with the police (except when they returned a lost wallet!)

The police are actually able and capable of being really helpful with autistic teens, shame this particular bunch was so power-mad and ableist because any parent of an autistic child who has seen that footage will be thoroughly put off from contacting police themselves in future.

Which ultimately will be bad for the parents and autistic teens who would actually benefit from a little police involvement (as we did) and bad for society as a whole because being able to trust the police is part of a functioning, democratic society.

Someone on twitter said the police woman looks like Conan O'Brian and now I can't unsee it.

I'll report myself for hate speech...

Sorry - quote function fail that was to Aaron

I have no idea why they couldn't have written down a note in their little notebooks and picked up the matter in the morning when she was sober and not in such a state.

Either they could have attended the house or asked her to come in voluntarily. What on earth was she dragged down to the station for, when she was already safe in her own house in the care of her Mother?

What possible good did that do, except a vindictive Punishment By Procedure?

which is make no mistake, exactly what this is. A weak move by a weak person, who lost their shit over nothing and abused their power.

Pack in.

There is NOTHING in that video to indicate anything other than an overwhelmed child.

If it takes 5 officers to handle that they are not fit for purpose and should be sacked.

They are treating her in a disproportion way and I belive she may have been drunk.

Urgent reviews and training should be triggered and they all need to understand different disability. What an unnecessarily traumatic experience all around.

They’ll all be on the Reddit thread (shared further up) congratulating each other.

It is very distressing and frightening. As PP have said imagine what it would be like if the police routinely carry guns here. Not one of those officers in attendance have any sense of proportionality.

I've only just seen this. It's absolutely horrific. I actually can't believe how they've treated her. Thank God it's on camera.

This really is so distressing.

Once upon a time in a land far away I had a drunk autistic meltdown and called several police officers that were trying to help me "a bunch of effing cnuts", I have no idea why I did that... I was drunk and mid-meltdown.

They said "well isn't that charming language for a young lady" or something and proceeded to delivery me home to my rather bewildered housemates.

Because... proportionality? It probably helped that I was (reasonably) well-spoken and formally dressed (had got raging drunk at a black-tie event) at the time.... but I don't know that.

That video was extremely distressing. I can't imagine what the girl could possibly have said to justify that response. They've responded as if she was a knife-welding maniac. It's rediculous.

That is fucking disgusting.
I'm furious.
If there are any police reading this thread, this is why so many people have a problem with you.

This video is one of the most upsetting I’ve seen. The officers are grossly homophobic and ableist (and sexist to boot, with 7 hulking male officers intimidating and cornering a young girl in her home). WY Police need to be sued to this heavens for two hate crimes against protected classes. To hell with them. This should not be buried.

If I were a police officer and I dropped what I was doing to rush to the aid of a colleague calling for backup, only to find said colleague in a strop about a terrified child hiding in a cupboard, I'd be really pissed off with said colleague.

Probably a TERFY old lady too <spits>

Absolutely need autism training for police.

That young lad who has a record for asking whether someone is a man or woman needs his record wiped clean as well. Definitely would contribute to a crowd funder for that.

The mother wasn't 'mouthing off' she was advocating for her child.

Not really - you are encouraged to shout for assistance if situations go beyond your control.

Would calling for assistance because you overheard an autistic teenage girl saying you looked like a lesbian be reasonable though?

Would this particular scenario, which, however you look at it, is an overreaction, be deemed suitable measures by the police?

If I, a member of public, phoned the police because I overheard someone saying something about me, would they come out and assist me? If they did would that be considered reasonable use of police time?

I would bet money that the hateful ableist policewoman is a lesbophobic non-binary or pansexual, and is projecting her own homophobia onto the girl.

Is it possible for members of the public to report this as a hate crime? This is definitively an ableist assault and harassment, along with false arrest. Abusing, threatening, ganging up on and harassing a girl with impaired social skills for having impaired social skills is the definition of a hate crime. As is purposefully manhandling a girl with scoliosis after being told this would cause her pain.

When I tried to report on WYP own website, it says you need permission from the victim and their name and area.

Also, I have archived West Yorkshire Police's victim-blaming and disparaging statement, in case they try to change it:

<a class="break-all" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230811061039/www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/statement-social-media-video-leeds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">archive

There is some debate on Twitter over whether the insult was being called Nanna or lesbian with posters referring to Nanna lesbian. Though PC Poface is also excellent.

The officer may have been additionally outraged by being compared to a lesbian nana - one of those nasty older type of witches, you know. An unbearable concept for a young woman of that mindset.

I think the final shot of the lesbian police officer (aka victim of hate crime) does not show an individual reflecting on the enormous mess she has created instead it is designed to show how traumatised she is. Except she is a poor actress so her stimulation of emotion seems false and staged. I despair of the British police; no interest in solving real crime, instead driven by divisive ideology and populated by officers with a grudge to bear.