Met chief backs officers over Graham Linehan arrest row, but says they shouldn’t ‘police toxic culture wars’
Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley supported the officers as he faced criticism of the arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan, but the power should not be responsible for “toxic cultural wars discussions”.
Sir Mark said that his officers were “impossible, ve and said that power would now take action in social media abuse. Father Ted The author on Anti-Trarans is on social media.
Linehan claimed that he had been arrested by five armed police officers when he arrived at Heathrow airport from Arizona on three tweets on Monday on Monday. He said that he was arrested.
Both Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting responded to the arrest, and the second MET said that “not only the policing tweets, but the streets of the police”.
In the Prime Minister’s questions (PMQS), Sir Keir reiterated that power should focus on “the most serious problems such as anti-social behavior, knife crime and violence.
Sir Mark said in a statement: “On Monday, civil servants arrested a man in Heathrow in connection with the tasks on X in his fifties.
“In the current legislation, I understand the concern given between different perspectives between the free speech and the risks of provoking violence in the real world, although a threat to punch one of a protected group may be a crime.” “
One of the tweets that Linehan claimed to have been arrested called people to “call the police” to people who were trans-women, and “If everything failed, he punched him at the balls.” Another is in response to the photograph of a crowd with trancsual and LGBT+ pride flags: orum I hate them. Female hostile and homophobes. F *** Em. ”
Linehan includes other shows BT Crowd And Black BooksHe claimed that he was a “serious point with a joke”. He wrote on his blog that the single guarantee will not go to X and faced another interview in October.
Sir Mark continued: “The most reasonable people acknowledge that the threats of real physical violence against a identified person or group should be mobilized by civil servants. Such actions may have serious and violent real world effects.
“However, when there is less cases in terms of intention and harm, there is a policy between a rock that has no choice but to record events such as crimes when they are reported to the civil servants.
“I do not believe that we should be policing the toxic cultural wars discussions, and the officers are currently impossible, üm he continued, and offered to make suggestions to the home office about where the law and policy should be qualified.
Mr. Streeting argues that after the police reacted to the incident, the government can look at the changes in the legislation.
Times told Radio: “People are very easy to criticize the police. The police force the laws of the land we provide as legislators,” he added: “So if we don’t do the balance right, then we all have to look and think.”
Downing Street refused to directly comment on the arrest, saying that it was a “operational issue for the police, and said that the Prime Minister had made“ open ”policing priorities.
Sir Keir’s official spokesman: ” The Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior were clear about where crime and crime and policing priorities were, and this reduces serious violence crimes such as anti-social behavior, theft, street crime and knife crime and violence against women. “
Sir Mark announced that a change in the legislation will present “more clarity and common sense ;; This will enable us to distinguish to combat online expressions and limit us to situations that create real threats in the real world.
“If accepted, we may be ready to quickly test new approaches in a few weeks.”
Linehan is tried on Thursday for two separate charges at the Westminster Magistrate Court. One is about harassing transsexual activist Sophia Brooks on social media, and the other is to damage Mrs. Brooks’s mobile phone in October. He rejected the charges at a hearing on May 12th.
Linehan is increasingly known for sharing online rhetorics online, which has been criticizing significant criticisms from LGBT+ groups in recent years. In 2020, the Twitter account was banned permanently due to the repeated violation of our rules against hateful behavior and platform manipulation ”.
