Harry the owl visited by police

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This whole hate speech/incident law is completely out of control. This is sinister.
Check out @HarryTheOwl’s Tweet: twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1088144870991114241?s=09

Hull had 600 cases of rape / sexual assault reported. 24 people charged. Wonder what the police have been investigating instead?

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/revealed-sickening-number-rapists-facing-1004366

Oh my, they have just made themselves look even worse with that statement. This isn't going to die down now. Every single tweet they put out about any incident is being roundly mocked. It's also pretty disturbing to see how many local people have been fobbed off by them when reporting actual crimes.

It’s never going to get old is it? Every time they describe a suspect as ‘male’ or ‘him’.

I have never been more embarrassed to live in this country.

And the person who made the complaint was "distressed"?

So distressed by the first tweet that they then decided to choose to read another 29 tweets by Harry? And presumably become further distressed?

Reading stuff that causes you distress on Twitter isn't compulsory you know. You could choose not to read them.

The person ‘down South’ was not just distressed, they decided that, on the basis of my GC stance, my workplace was not a safe place for trans people. The complainant was bravely and stunningly fighting on their behalf.

Using the location of your business as the basis to pursue you Harry looks like a really dodgy use of police powers. Because they had no intention of going after your company, they were after you personally.

Well funded lawyers could have a field day with all of the different aspects of this but it would be expensive and draining of your time and energy.

But I hope you do make a formal complaint about the non-crime and outside of jurisdiction aspects at least and then escalate it (I'd expect this to be inevitable). In your shoes I'd also be pushing for an apology that you made 30 transphobic tweets.

So the cops get 1.2K comments on their most recent statement.

twitter.com/Humberbeat/status/1089899900177956864

The natives are restless.

Wow that thread. About a 100 likes and well over a thousand comments against them. No wonder the TRAs are pretending this didn't happen. They normally can't wait to gloat that they've called the cops on someone for wrong think.

This really isn't going away is it!

Omg the police have so misjudged this
Us the public. Well peaked by this utter shite from them

Wow that twitter response!

This is what ordinary ppl feel,about this batshittery

I'm thinking we should start to report every "hate incident" ie threatening comment towards women that we see on Twitter. Based on their recent tweet, they're duty bound to call up the person responsible, and if they try and dismiss it then surely that's breaching discrimination laws themselves!

In fact, I've got time this week.. if someone can find a threatening, misogynistic tweet or comment,(shouldn't be hard) then it might distress me enough to report it to the police

And I'll tell them that if it's not dealt with appropriately by the same standards as other protected characteristics then they're breaching the equality act

The public have never wanted any of this. Now that they know they can voice their objections.

Where did the police policy come from: existing law; drafted by policy civil servants in the Home Office; or does it result from the regular and lucrative Stonewall consultancy services provided to police forces.

If the latter, here is evidence that good policy needs transparency and should be based on democracy.

Exactly

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Are the police accountable for the statements they release on Twitter? I want to send an email to them to complain about them missing out sex as a protected characteristic, guessing I should look up the official complaints procedure

Making the complaint now

After some research it turns out hate crime against women is currently legal in England

Funny that the hate crime laws apply to most of the protected characteristics except women and that relating to women such as pregnancy, and age

It's unfathomable, isn't it Ode ?

I just can't imagine how women were left off the list....

Someone on the twitter thread had posted a police flow chart for dealing with reported "hate incidents". What was quite telling is that, unless I misread it, there was no exit criteria for "not really an incident". Report, assess whether there's a specific threat, assess if it's a crime...log as hate incident or hate crime.

Talk about an invitation to vexatiously report...

Maybe I could make an official complaint about pc Gul's comments, any thoughts?

And a source of shocking statistics about the rise in ‘hate incidents’.

If women could do the same when faced with misogyny, perhaps it would provide some perspective. Though overall I would prefer police to be tackling real crime.