Good luck Harry The Owl

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Court case today.

twitter.com/WeAreFairCop

Judge - if Parliament wants to take away fundamental human rights it can't do it by general words, it must face up to the consequences of what it is doing

Yes indeed APerkyPumpkin - we could start with reporting the current election manifestos!

@APerkyPumpkin @ScapaFlo But I thought misogyny couldn't be reported as a hate incident? That's what I was told upthread (I think).

Oh bum - you're right

Haha

twitter.com/ismesarahjane/status/1197474095543324672?s=19

Well, Lesbians and Gay men can report everytime TRAs insists same-sex attraction is 'wrong-think'. For a start, eh?

Judge - What was the purpose of PC Gul going to work place. What was he going to achieve? Incident had been recorded and that is all could be done with it. It wasn't a crime. What was PC Gul doing? What was he trying to achieve?

5m

"I'm old enough to remember the miners' strike in 1984. Justice Wise is too..." Nice shade thrown at the young Aussie's ignorance, who, to his credit, did not reply with "Ok boomer".

The woman on the street might reply:

"Police harassment" Captain

Perhaps.

Judge - what offence did PC Gul think would occur?

Counsel for P - could be something under the Public Order Act ....

Judge - you will be familiar with phrase ex post facto rationalisation. Factors not necessarily in their mind at the time. Persuade themselves justified.

Hah!

I've just had to look up 'sussuration' . Great new word to add to my vocabulary. Initially I was confusing it with murmuration (starlings!!)

Def Counsel - purpose of policy is to protect communities not individuals. Its about non crimes

eh, what now?

so what are we protecting 'communities' from that we don't need to protect individuals from?

Judge is getting properly narked, going by the tone of the tweets.

Swear my heart's beating faster. Getting nothing done today apart from obsessive refreshing.

Yes the use of capitals is v telling!

Wow

So it looks like the police and the complainant were in cahoots to tell Harry off and get him to stop tweeting??!

The police clearly thought the could come in, say "it's the law" and the judge would diode with them.

Looks like the judge knows this case has a wide audience and is of huge significance by this comment.

Side not diode

Datun

I spoke to the 'woman in the street'. She muttered something about "getting cold, luv...and police harassment".

Flippin’ heck. This Judge is terrifying! Good. Assuming you’re not the CfP that is.

Are the police actually saying they've actually told Harry to stop it, or else???

This is excellent reading.

Does anyone know - might there be any come back on the police officer individually, if this does go the right way?

'bad tweeting'