Police "arrest a child for viewing a social media post" FAKE NEWS

[noblegiraffe]

I've just been on twitter and seen multiple people reposting a video of two police officers apparently threatening to arrest a child for viewing a post on social media. The video is heavily edited.

The police have issued a statement

https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/september/disinformation-circulating-around-walsall-investigation-into-indecent-messages/

"We are investigating after a complaint from a member of the public that a fake social media account had been created in their name and had been used to send indecent messages.
The offence being investigated is one of malicious communications - sending indecent or grossly offensive communication to cause distress or anxiety.
The messages are of an incredibly serious nature and have caused serious concern for the victim."

This is why they wanted to confiscate the phone before evidence could be destroyed.

While I agree that there have been some stupid arrests in the past, this isn't one of them.

I bloody knew there would be something like this behind it. Seen several people share this today, all banging on about Starmer's Britain and Big Brother yada yada.

Just control your kids' access to social media FFS.

Yes, and given one of the police officers was wearing a hijab it also attracted racist comments from the likes of Tommy Robinson.

Someone deliberately edited that video and put it on social media with a lie as a caption and it went around like wildfire. I wonder who and why.