• galmuth@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Educate her, sure

      “now honey, what you said was deeply offensive to your grandmother. she doesn’t look like a thumb-cop!”

    • temptest [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      The bottom line is, the victim having autism and being young is irrelevant in the sense that no-one should be treated like that for such a trivial insult.

      It’s obviously still relevant, the victim is particularly vulnerable, making the abuse so much more obviously callous and disgusting. But I say if this happened to Joe Citizen, it would also be horrific.

  • Kofu@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • terry_tibbs@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      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.