To think that the UK police have no right to "check our thinking"?

[HawayMan]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6636383/Twitter-user-investigated-police-posting-poem-social-media-site.html

Yes, its a DM link; however, the Guardian and BBC don't seem to be covering this story yet...

From the article...

A Twitter user is planning to complain to the Home Secretary after police investigated him for retweeting a poem which suggested transgender women are still men.

Harry Miller is furious at his ‘Orwellian’ treatment by an officer who rang to check his ‘thinking’ after he had ‘liked’ a limerick

In better news, I'm planning on moving to Humberside. Clearly, there must be no actual crime there!

General statements that offend our feelings are not a police matter

This was discussed here on mn not long ago. Maybe somebody will kindly link to it I can't find the darn thread

I suspect if liking a tweet warrants a PC-PC visit then resources are being woefully misused. Soft target and all that.

It’s like me in the office looking at my ‘to do’ list and knocking off a few minor tasks to get a few ticks rather than tacking a huge (more important) project that will take me ages.

Besides, if the narrative from the PC was reported correctly then there are some very worrying things these for starters.

According to the other thread on this, apparently Labour 'officially' agree that the police were right, or some such nonsense.

Oh what a surprise. Was that proper grown up Labour (wherever the hell they have got to) or the Tweenies Twitter Wing?

Sorry but Humberside police are famously shit. Have a look at their Ian Huntley antics to see how they deal with real threats. We didnt even bother with them when men hacked our door down with a machete.

And heres another thing I never repeat to people about the corruption I've seen from them first hand because people just dont believe it, but I know the truth.

Humberside police take hate crimes seriously,

That's nice.

But even the police here admitted it wasn't a crime.

So in reality, Humberside police take "nearly crimes" seriously too. Which is good news for anyone "nearly robbed" I guess ?

Humberside continuing to embarrass themselves by arguing (incorrectly) about what the protected characteristics are and being schooled by the great British public.

mobile.twitter.com/Humberbeat/status/1089899900177956864

I hate twitter but sometimes it is amusing.

Under the FOI act can you ask who put in (vexatious and frequent) official complaints to the PC-pc? Asking for a friend.

Probably not, their name would be redacted under data protection I think? Unless you could make a case of it being in the public interest?

Hmmm interesting.

Very public interest if there is an orchestrated wasting of police time. 🤔

You’d be relying on whoever does the redacting to make the correct call. If it was just a random trans person who genuinely felt distressed and who would be made vulnerable by media attention then their name should be redacted but if its someone like challenor doing it for political purposes or Mermaids,( I’m sure I’ve read somewhere recently that both of them were doing or have done FOI’s to schools) then that is VERY much in the public interest.

Harry should sue them for that statement.

Child Protection training gives a very different story on what happened in the Huntley case.

Very sad that lessons STILL haven’t been learned. The law was misinterpreted then and it is being misinterpreted now.

Their sexual assault and rape clean up rates suggest that while they might be engaging well with LGBT they could do with focusing some attention on a rather large protected group who they're failing dismally.

Humberside has strong community LGBT support? hahahahahaha

The force really is that incompetent that they dont even realise how much they're despised do they?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1465256/How-the-police-lost-track-of-Ian-Huntley.html

He was known about for years in Barton. By the general public.

Finally I would much.more trust Humberside police then a bigoted twitter troll. But then I know how dedicated 99% of Humberside police are

You know Huntley now identifies as a woman yeah? You good with that obviously or you would be a bigot, right?

Glad you find it funny. If humberside's database hadnt been a 'shambles' those murders woulldnt have happened.