By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 08:08:50 | Updated at 2024-11-16 10:26:56
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UK Police Investigated a 9-Year-Old Kid For Saying 'Retard'
Cybercast News Service ^ | November 15, 2024 | Brittany M. Hughes
Posted on 11/16/2024 12:07:20 AM PST by Olog-hai
Police in the U.K., who I’m assuming have run out of stabbings to look into, are now investigating a nine-year-old boy for calling his classmate a “retard.”
That’s according to The Times, which did an investigative dive of their own into some of the “non-hate crime incidents” U.K. cops had recorded in the interest of “public safety.” (And yes - this is the same country currently jailing people for making "offensive" social media posts.)
This newest insanity is all thanks to the U.K.’s recently implemented Non-Hate Crime Incidents law, which, according to government guidance, mandates that police investigate reported “incidents” that are “clearly motivated by intentional hostility” or that risk “causing significant harm or a criminal offense.”
The law has led to more than 13,000 “hate” incidents being recorded by the U.K.’s less-than-50 police departments between June 2023 and June 2024 alone. …
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: keirstalin; retard; starmer; uk
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1 posted on 11/16/2024 12:07:20 AM PST by Olog-hai
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