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G4Z ( G4Z@feddit.uk )  to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 years ago

Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’

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Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’

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G4Z ( G4Z@feddit.uk )  to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 years ago
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Police arrest autistic girl 'because she said officer looked like lesbian nan'
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West Yorkshire Police reportedly arrested an autistic girl because she said an officer looked like her grandmother, who is a lesbian.
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  • galmuth ( galmuth@feddit.uk ) 
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    Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(

    Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, there’d be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She’s a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.

    • Colour_me_triggered ( Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ) 
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      I’m an autist, and I very well might have meant it as a burn.

      • Iama_fish_ama ( Iama_fish_ama@beehaw.org ) 
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        The article mentions drink was involved - I don’t know if its the neurodivergence or just me, but I could definitley find myself saying that if met someone who looked like my gay Nan while having a pissed up panic attack

    • BarrelAgedBoredom ( BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ) 
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      That is a pretty sick brurn though. Good on ya, autistic lady whether you meant it as an insult or not. Sorry about the pigs throwing a temper tantrum

    • NuPNuA ( NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) 
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      If this girl is so far gone she can’t stop herself from accidently being homophobic, why were the parents letting her out to drink on the street at midnight?

      • Iama_fish_ama ( Iama_fish_ama@beehaw.org ) 
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        I’m sorry what?

        You clearly read the article to know she was intoxicated, so you must have also seen the kids words quoted as "you look like my Nana, she’s a lesbian.

        That’s oversharing, people do that on a normal day, let alone that she was an intoxicated neurodiverse child having a panic attack. Without context it’s not an insult, with context its a child being manhandled while in distress.

        It seems like you have a problem with her as a person for either being a drunk teenager, neurodivergent or possibly something else? Kids fuck about, the consequences in this instance should be a hangover and a stern talking to, not assault and arrest.

  • terry_tibbs ( terry_tibbs@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Police can’t handle entry level banter here, every officer I’ve dealt with has been a power tripping cunt including the PCSO’s who don’t even have arresting powers.

    • sexy_peach ( sexy_peach@feddit.de ) 
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      Yeah it’s the worst people that sign up for that job (obviously not all of them). Especially the parts where they wield power the density of assholes increases.

      • 🦄🦄🦄 ( Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ) 
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        Nah, it’s all of em.

        • gk99 ( gk99@beehaw.org ) 
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          You’re telling me…

          all cops are bastards?

          • Echo Dot ( echodot@feddit.uk ) 
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            No. Not all of them.

            Some of them lack the brains

            • gk99 ( gk99@beehaw.org ) 
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              Bastard is as bastard does.

    • peto (he/him) ( peto@lemm.ee ) 
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      Especially the PCSOs.

  • argv_minus_one ( argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) Banned
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    Sounds to me like it’s the police who are homophobic, taking “lesbian” as an insult.

  • Kofu ( Kofu@lemmy.ml ) 
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    She is right. The cops here in the UK are bullies and they treat the public like crap. Bullied in school became a cop to get power, uses power to bully others. The way they treat people is awful. I work in accommodation for the homless and the diffrece in the way the police talk to me and them, is night and day.

    Thing is, no one want to be friends with a cop or be in a relationship with them… could you imagen breaking up with a cop? Fuxk that! i’d sooner cut a finger off.

    • watson ( watson387@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      I think this applies everywhere. The power attracts a particular personality type that is less than trustworthy.

      • Kofu ( Kofu@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Oh yeah this is definitely the case, but if you know anything about UK playgrounds, you definitely know the type.

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  • Alien Nathan Edward ( reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ) 
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    When you’re a cop, you get to hurt anyone who upsets you in any way. The law is secondary, if it shows up at all. You’re a tool for indiscriminate violence.

  • Colour_me_triggered ( Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ) 
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    He must look like an aging lesbian. They’ve blurred his face in every picture.

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    • Blackmist ( Blackmist@feddit.uk ) 
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      Especially in Leeds. That policewoman is probably about the same age as her grandma.

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    • OOFshoot ( OofShoot@beehaw.org ) 
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      It’s not even a burn, if the officer is older they could very well look like that girl’s lesbian grandmother. And if they do, so what?

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        Exactly. The girl was stating a fact and it reminded the cop of when he used to get made fun of in grade school.

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    🎶Fuck the police!🎶

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