Booby-trapped Trans tape on Edinburgh lampposts injures council worker during removal

So it seems likely that this has happened:

A man who claims to be a woman has carried out a terrorist act in support of men who claim to be women

Upon him being arrested, the police have released a statement saying he is a woman

The press have reported that he is a woman, and avoided mentioning that the terrorist act was in support of men claiming to be women

There are several stories there, if only journalists were brave enough to cover them

They might not be lying per se - if police say it’s a woman then in theory (though we know not in reality) that should be good enough.

Naming an accused person isn’t an offence. We have an open justice system in which the expectation is that accused people can be identified.

Jigsaw identification refers to information that could lead to the identity of people who have an expectation of anonymity- mainly children and complainers in sex cases.

Thanks @Hoardasurass

So it is the police who are providing misinformation rather than the press?

(Although I guess the original source of misinformation is the man claiming to be a woman)

Police Scotland released a statement saying that a woman was arrested however that would be a male woman. Police Scotland have so much form for this sort of shit.
The paper will have amended the reporting because enough people will have contacted them to say that its a man but the police wont have updated their statement

Latest article has removed the reference to the suspect being a woman:
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/arrest-made-after-substance-found-on-edinburgh-lamppost-8936585

If this is a man then I'm pretty shocked the Edinburgh Evening News originally reported him as being a woman. The coy references to pink and blue tape is one thing (would make the story a bit baffling to any readers not familiar with trans colours), but actively lying about the suspect's sex is another level

He's apparently well known locally and the cops raided his house

Technically its vandalism and if it cant be removed without damage it becomes criminal damage.
Though I can't remember the last time cops did anything about vandalism in Scotland so if im honest the only way I could imagine the police doing anything is if it was done in front of them and the person doing it was being a twat to the cops

See either it’s an act of aggression or it isn’t- either suffragette colours and woman stickers and definitions are ok and trans colours are ok, or neither.

And of course not defacing public property. For anyone.

Or more likely they think it’s TERFs removing their stickers and wanted to harm them. Either way still criminal.

Yesterday I was violently sick so ner!

Don’t name or describe him on here - it’s a live case and jigsaw ID got that nationalist man jailed!

well based on X - people have seen him do this for some time so locals know who it is.

I imagine whatever was put on the sticker might have reacted with whatever the council employees use to clean them off with. If they smelt something toxic they would quite rightly seek help

Yes, putting stickers and other unauthorised material on public or private property is illegal.

Edinburgh council evidently don't think putting up unauthorised material is acceptable, or it wouldn't have sent workers to remove it. Repeatedly.

Logically the reason some substance has been added to the material is to cause the council to stop sending workers to remove it, for fear of danger to those workers. That is undoubtedly criminal and IMO verging in terrorism.

That tweet doesn't give any indication of who the person is or how we are supposed to know its a man/TW as opposed to a woman. Has he been identified? If so, where?

How do we know the person is male - presumably this comes from a source who knows for sure who it is?

Doesn't surprise me at all if it is a male and the police are lying, but every time this happens, it pisses more people off and helps to get the message through to them that they're massively undermining public trust.

I live nearby and regularly walk past this area, and the tape thing has been happening for years. But although I am GC, I didn't really mind it and thought it was a pretty non-violent way for someone to express themselves. We are OK with suffragette-colour stickers it seems, and lampposts and electricity boxes often have stickers and posters all over them in Edinburgh generally, and even in fancy Morningside.

(I'm not sure on the law regarding putting up stickers or tape in flag colours and whether it is illegal, but I would not see trans colours in themselves as threatening. Certainly I'd rather the police prioritised various other things.)

Hazardous substances is obviously very different and would clearly be illegal and needs investigating, but I'm wary of acting like the stickering alone was a massive problem just because it was TRA-themed.

It's a man in a frock! Even trans-addled Police Scotland could have used that to narrow down the possible culprit had they wished to. I'm certain it would have been an open secret.

They’ve arrested a woman who turns out to actually be a man?

I'm shocked. SHOCKED I tell you.

How there’s not a criminal investigation into this and a bigger media presence is crazy!

‘peace, love and acceptance’ yea right…this is an actual if violence which is happening more and more!

With CCTV being available and facial recognition - hasn't that reached Edinburgh yet? This could have been sorted ages ago.

Fucking nutjob.

It's amazing how quickly he was caught when they put some effort into it, they could have done it ages ago considering it's been going on for 3 years. They could have given him a police caution or something, it might have stopped him, instead he kept getting away with it so his activities escalated and people were hurt.
If he deliberately applied something, then he intended to do harm, so he should be charged ABH at least.

The Scottish media are controlled by the SNP - have been for years