Re: [OT] Anatomy of a "non crime hate incident"

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I recently posted about the existence of "non-crime hate incidents" as a
new class of offence in Britain and got some fairly perplexed reactions,
especially when I mentioned that such offences could make you eligible
for significant jail time.

I just noticed this video which does a deep dive into one such
"non-crime hate incident", this one being a journalist's tweet. It has
made the headlines in Britain and brought the police into even greater
disrepute than they already had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jiTv1duFKo [1 hour, 15 minutes]

I love this woman. "I'll pulled myself up to my 5'3" height, reminded
them that this (it may have been a tweet posted on Remembrance Sunday
2023 opposing anti-Semitism in Britain after the attack on Israel from
Gaza) is the solemn occassion of Rembrence Day in which we commemorate
the deaths of soldiers of WWI and WWII -- about your ages -- who died
fight forces of a tyrranical enemy so that the rest of us could live in
peace. What would they think of two policemen showing up at someone's
door acting tyrranically about what someone wrote?"

She said the two men looked shame faced.

Along the way, the journalist shares how these offences first came into
existence and how even the new Labour government, which clearly supports
this sort of thinking, is distancing itself from the idea as the
reaction to this incident circulates.