Streeting says officers should ‘police streets not tweets’ after Graham Linehan arrest
A senior cabinet Minister criticized the police after the comedian Graham Linehan was arrested from tweets about transsexual people.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that the government wanted to see that the government can be suggested that the legislation can be considered if the law cannot “get the balance right” in the free speech.
He said: “People are very easy to criticize the police. The police are applying the laws of the land we provide as a legislator,” he said. “So if we don’t make the balance correctly, this is something we should all look for and think.”
Mr Steeting’s intervention followed intense debates after the arrest of Father Ted Yazar Linehan at Heathrow Airport in a flight from the United States.
While Linehan’s treatment was rejected, Mr. Streeting said it was wrong to blame what happened.
BBC Radio Four: “They are there to implement the laws of parliament and we can’t go to the police if we can’t take the law correctly.”
Mr. Streeting said it was right to declare those who use social media illegal or illegally selling drugs and weapons to harass and abuse others. However, while online free speech, he added, “The context is the king,” he added: ız We should really print carefully when it comes to the limits of free speech. ”
Mr Streeting was proud to live in a country where we landed like a ton of brick on racism and discrimination ”, but there was always:“ Legitimate limits when it comes to free speech – this is about protecting others from damage … Sometimes these limits are blurry ”.
Mr. Streeting’s intervention claims that when he came from Arizona at the Heathrow airport, he was arrested by five armed police officers at the Heathrow airport, saying that the Irish Comedian was “arrested for three tweets on Tuesday.
Metropolitan police, a man in their fifties on Monday at 13:00 on Monday, because of the suspicion of violence against violence in X due to the suspicion of violence, although they did not confirm the identity of the shape was arrested, he said.
Linehan claimed that he had been arrested on his blog for three tweets published in April, and one of them punched the balls to the people who were trans-women, “calling the police” and “if everything failed,”.
Another article, a crowd in a protest, many transsexuals and LGBT+ Pride flags held and wrote on top: “A photo you can smell”.
In response to someone who commented under this photo, he said, orum I hate them. Mistogynists and Homophobes. F *** Em. He said.
Linehan claimed that he pointed to 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.
The controversial comedy writer 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 “repeatedly violating our rules against hateful behavior and platform manipulation”.
His account was later released when Elon Musk seized the social media platform in December 2022, while Linehan said that his “non -fashion” views on trans rights were caused by the entertainment industry to be listed from the entertainment industry and cost his marriage.
In 2024, Mr. Streeting, in 2024, was criticized by transgender activists after he claimed that “transgender women women, trans men men” and gender-critical feminists were “bigoted”.
