A team of at least seven law enforcement officers dragged an autistic teenager from her home in Leeds, England, after a policewoman took offence at being told she looked like the teen’s lesbian grandmother.
Video footage published on social media shows the 16-year-old cowering in a cupboard as her mother explains to the policewoman, who has a cropped, male haircut, that her daughter has autism and meant no offense, while the officer shrieks: “I don’t care, she’s gonna be arrested!”
After some time, the girl is indeed dragged out of the house by the policewoman’s male colleagues while she looks on nonplussed. The girl’s mother says she was held in a police cell for 20 hours before being released on bail, and was interviewed without her being present.
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West Yorkshire Police have complained that people should “avoid reaching conclusions solely on the basis of the social media video” as it “only provides a very limited snapshot of the circumstances of this incident” in a statement published to social media.
They confirm, however, that the girl was “arrested on suspicion of a homophobic public order offence.”
Such crimes do exist and are enforced in the United Kingdom, which has no meaningful free speech protections. The alleged offender was even in her own home at the time of the so-called offense.
West Yorkshire cops are already infamous for their “serious systematic failure” to protect mostly white working-class girls from mostly Muslim rape gang groomers – with one member of the force responsible for promoting diversity and liaising with ethnic minorities being even being tried as a groomer himself.
