7 police officers versus 1 autistic girl

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https://metro.co.uk/video/teen-girl-autism-arrested-telling-officer-looks-like-lesbian-nana-2995683/

AIBU to think these Police officers should be disciplined for arresting this autistic

girl for a ‘hate crime’ then dragging her out of her home kicking and screaming?

The police officer who the girl said looked like her ‘lesbian nana’ seems very unprofessional.

Why the fuck did they need 7 officers to sort out what basically is a misunderstanding involving an autistic minor. That is not exactly keeping the peace is it? Discipline all of the officers I say!

They should all be arrested for assault and sacked. Homophobic my arse.

@imautisticandalsoabitch

Agree, this is utterly disgusting.

Incredible that they don’t see their hypocrisy, they’re the ones committing an injustice and abuse of power.

Jesus Christ, that’s horrendous! They should all be sacked

Think they should spend more time investigating burglaries and catching actual criminals causing problems with the social fabric and less time on this sort of thing.
All 7 of them should be answering some bloody hard questions about this and potentially be sacked.
It's always women they use disproportionate force on and try to intimidate.

I don’t understand…since when can somebody be arrested for saying something? And with force..to a child?!

There were some horrible disablist posts on here earlier tonight too, minimising ASD and stating that "everyone's precious child has it these days". We need to challenge this sort of nonsense.
Autism is real, it causes meltdowns.
West Yorks police should be ashamed of themselves.

So what are we actually gonna do about this? Who do we write to?

There is another, longer, chain on this

It’s horrendous and I’m glad it’s getting shared all over the world.
The officer who escalated it deserves to be sacked. The others involved should be very ashamed of themselves.
Why don’t they solve some actual crimes instead of chasing down children?

Very sad to see those attitudes, how awful for parents of autistic children and other disabilities already struggling to have to listen to that.

I have no idea but I hope someone else does, perhaps on the longer other post about this which I haven’t been able to find as yet

Apologies, I had a look and can’t see it

Yes me too, the first step is exposing this as much as possible.

Why were the police called in the first place?

Do we have the full story of what happened or just media headlines ?

There are already 2 long, detailed threads on this with all the information and links to other reports.

Yet more police idiocy. | Mumsnet

Here is one. The other is in AIBU. I will look for it.

Fair points, and much appreciated, this is the first I've heard of this.

I think the other one might have gone. I understand there were some unpleasant comments about autistic children on the AIBU one. I did not see it.

As the parent of an autistic teenager I can say that video is horrific and extremely worrying

The police have made a full statement about the circumstances but tbh I still can not see a crime was committed and definitely the reaction was well out of proportion and they were wrong to not try and calm the situation rather than escalate it .

We have only one side of the story. The officers and the police will not comment on an ongoing investigation.

That female police officer had the biggest chip on her shoulder. She should not be in that job. She has a vendetta. Its so sad this generation they are too busy being offended they aren't doing their actual jobs.