Met Police chief calls for law change after Graham Linehan arrest
Metropolitan police president, comedian Graham Linehan’s online duties after the arrest of the law to “change or clarify” called.
The 50 -year -old child was arrested on Monday within the scope of Monday on suspicion of provoking violence in relation to tasks related to trans people in X.
On Wednesday, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley defended the officials, but he knew the concern of such events, which have given different perspectives in the balance between the risks of free speech and the risk of provoking violence in the real world. “
Sir Keir Starmer said that when asked about the arrest at Commons, the police should “focus on the most serious problems”.
His arrest reacted from some public figures and politicians who said that he brought questions about free speech in the UK.
Early on Wednesday, the health secretary of the health Secretary Wes Streeting said Following the arrest, you need to “look” to the relevant legislation“They want the police to focus on the streets rather than tweets”.
Linehan said his arrest in Heathrow was about three tasks in X in April.
The first article called it “a violent, abusive action” for a man defined as a trans-suggestion in the field of women. “Make a scene, call the cops, and if everything fails, he punches him in the balls.”
Linehan was accused of bail under the investigation and was not accused of a crime.
In a statement on Wednesday, Sir Mark said that the decision to arrest Linehan was “in the current legislation – a threat to punch one of a group of protected groups,” he said.
Sir Mark said that his officers had a reasonable justification to believe that a crime was committed, but when the police were investigating the online conversation, he said that he was more broadly “between a rock and a difficult place”.
“I don’t believe we need to polish the discussions of toxic cultural wars, and the officers are now in an impossible position.”
Sir Mark said that the police should “make similar decisions in the future unless the law and guidance is changed or clarified.”
He said that he hoped that this would be “delay”, but he would immediately take action to update what cases he decided to investigate a police investigation.
Sir Mark said: “As an urgent way to protect our officers from the situation where we find ourselves today, we will put forward a more strict triggering process in order to ensure that only the most serious cases come to the fore in the future – there is a clear risk of harm or disorder.”
In an online article describing his arrest, 57 -year -old Linehan said that he was detained by five armed officers waiting for him at Heathrow Airport, where he returned from the USA.
He said that he was detained to question and then suffered from high blood pressure levels and accompanied the hospital.
