Lesbian nana goes viral again

To be fair, when police from other forces were drafted in during the London riots, I've never forgotten an account of 5 officers from Strathclyde Police.

Faced with a group of @ 100, the 5 sized them up, based on their experience of managing crowds in Glasgow after an Old Firm match in Glasgow, and charged them in the authoritative way they'd manage Rangers and Celtic fans.

The group dispersed.

The Scots police were also noted for playing football with teenagers at the time and sitting down and having a natter and cup of tea with people.

Nobody is actively trying to catch her out as far as I can see or wage a targeted shaming exercise against her.

What we have is two totally unrelated incidents, filmed by different people which show extreme responses from the same officer (based on what we see from the footage - I appreciate we should always consider there maybe more context we can't view).

You would have thought after the first incident this person might have reflected on how best to de-escalate situations or been offered support/training to do so.

The (over) reaction of this officer in comparison with their colleagues is very, very stark. The use of pepper spray, rushing at people, chasing after those already moving back to highly agitated body language and yelling was in significant contrast to her peers.

The reason this second film has gained traction is not because she is in it, but because of the behaviour she displayed which has echo's of previous recorded "form" for inflaming situations.

Had she behaved like the other officers, this second film wouldn't have gained any traction at all.

I have wondered the same. Hopefully from now on assuming she is not sacked or promoted to anywhere off the streets, people will see her and start filming.

I watched the footage and was just aghast. Lets hope they dont promote her to the firearms unit.

A very good point.

I don't think recording and posting shameful conduct counts as shaming.

She's not being shamed, she's (rightly) being held to account.

The police are there to protect the public and therefore the public need to have trust in them. She is. Undermining that trust.

It's amazing that this is the behaviour that has been recorded twice. How often is this happening when there is nobody filming her

I think people should be a lot more self-aware of what jobs are appropriate for them. This woman is way out of her depth. Maybe she's good at writing in exams or something.

At this stage she's a victim of public shaming, though, and I don't think many people deserve that.

Far too excitable to be trusted on the front line. She will have to be promoted like Cressida Dick.

Thanks, @DrBlackbird for the link to Duncan's FoI request.

'Lesbian Nana' has really entered the lexicon.

LN is making the rounds of all the newspapers again. Apparently any charges were dropped against the autistic girl the police dragged away, but I did wonder if there was more to the story.

It was hard to believe that 5 police would be sent to arrest a 12 year old girl at her house for simply saying the woman looked like her lesbian nana. The police woman herself may have rejection sensitivity dysphoria and over reacted but someone else in the force would’ve gone, naah let it go. Apparently not.

Anyhow, Duncan wants to know what happened so I’ll follow the FOI request with interest.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lesbian_nana_case

Crikey, the student officer on the left looks about 12!

I’m thinking LNan failed to follow WYP protocol:

https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/sites/default/files/2020-02/pava_irritant_spray.pdf

Section 5 Firearms:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/5

Apparently WYP are second only to the Met in the submission of ‘use of force’ paperwork:

https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/media/9025/item-4-use-of-force-aug-2022.pdf

WYP think this is a good thing, (presumably because they consider high volumes of completed paperwork to be more important than… not subjecting the public to police brutality? 😬)

Off topic, but fuck me, this made me feel ancient 😐

Lesbian Nana stars in ‘The Peppering’.

I’m not convinced she’s picking out ring leaders to spray to make a point, seeing as she lunges at the calm-seeming lady in the florescent sports top?

Pava/CS/Pepper spray are all prohibited firearms under the 1968 legislation - if a member of the public behaved like that they would presumably be up on a serious charge?

Thank you Moley and @BoreOfWhabylon

I keep reading the title as Les Bananas when I'm scanning the active threads *sighs

https://x.com/moleatthedoor/status/1716859303238230443?s=20

Is she a "transman"?

Is it terrible that I'm absolutely LOVING the fact that she was so offended by a little autistic girl calling her lesbian nana and now the whole of Britain is calling her that because of her tantrum over it 😂😂😂

I can't work twitter so would be grateful if you had a link.

I see another source is saying that the mum of the teen is stating that she was told that the officer involved was suspended... can't have been a very long suspension!

I know exactly why this story has piqued my attention so much. I work with autistic young adults and it always worries concerns me they will run into a police officer like this - we've had some pretty hairy experiences over the last couple of years with frankly, batshit decisions from officers who seem to have very little life experience or understanding of the mental capacity act.

There's always been the odd police officer who is known as a bit of a dick but it feels endemic currently at the coal face trying to work with them and often finding their 'help' is mostly counterproductive.

I'm a middle class, middle aged professional who used to have good working relationships with the police. Wouldn't ring them now for anything unless I was professionally obligated to and even the I'm very very careful in how I word my reports.

She is an absolute liability. She loses her head, places herself and colleagues at risk and gains more ridicule in the press.

I would hate to be one of her colleagues on shift wondering what situation she is going to inflame next.

moley has done a fantastic thing on Twitter about this. The details are great.😂

Fuck around and find out policing?? 😮

Come the fuck on. Indiscriminately pepper spraying people in the face is what happened.
Police really shouldn't be using weapons to fuck around and find out.

She is to face no further action.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/teenager-leeds-west-yorkshire-tiktok-west-yorkshire-police-b2391764.html