DDay Memorial

hell yes it got worse and ended up in the courts www.melaniephillips.com/need-check-thinking-english-police-officer/

the actual judgement is here www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/miller-v-college-of-police-judgment.pdf

Melanie Phillips.

Jesus wept. Only a short step up from Hatie Kockpins.

Yes, I thought there had to be quite a bit more to it than that...

Somebody had complained about transphobic things he'd posted on twatter being transphobic.

"An officer went to the Claimant’s place of work to speak to him about them. The Claimant was not present. He and the officer subsequently spoke on the phone. The details of what was said are disputed"

Read para 19, referring to his previous witness statement, and he's obviously got some kind of bee in his bonnet about trans people, and isn't afraid of shouting about it... And he's ex-Police himself.

Then you get to his actual tweets, as reproduced there. The police decided they fell short of actually being hate crimes, but clearly not by much. He is clearly a gobby raging bell-end. While that is not in itself illegal, he obviously needed reminding about the protected characteristics within the Equalities Act 2010. Which is what the police did.

The judgement seems to be a very narrow, very legalistic one - which does not come down firmly on his side. It dismisses most of his complaints, says the original complaint was correctly handled, says the guidelines in place for dealing with such complaints are correct, says the PC in question broadly did the right thing - but that he has the legal right to be a gobby raging bell-end. Even then, it's mostly because he was shouting into an echo chamber, and nobody had to listen to him.

He has the right to be a gobby raging bell-end, and everybody else has the right to think of him as such and point at him and laugh then ignore him completely.