You would think the police have way more urgent cases to worry about but apparently, a girl calling the officer a lesbian is an absolute priority. This is embarassing.
@@bj5731 She said something along the lines to the cop that she "looked like her grandmother who is a lesbian". Absolute unforgiveable felon, Am I right?
I’m autistic and this is especially upsetting to me, because one of the things I struggle with, and have struggled with all my life, is accidentally upsetting and offending people because I don’t always realise when I comment I intend to be funny, or even kind, will come across as rude.
I deal with the same issues. Hate having to walk on eggshells. That actually worsens my health problems and I’d even react the same as the autistic girl in the video
I’m British and I SINCERELY hope this family sue the police to high heaven. Absolutely outrageous and that poor girl is probably traumatised for life. And then when the inevitable pendulum swing comes, these stupid women like the policewoman there will cry about how they have no idea why this has happened.
@@revan5293 "I am not from the uk. But literally this cop is wrong in every way possible. She’s needs to be fired and sued. She does look like a lesbian tho. " Just because she acted like that people will start to call her a lesbian for the sake of it. That's the consequence of being a bad person.
it dont matter that she is autistic she can say what she wants in her own home. what next ? the police bugging all homes to make sure they dont say any offensive words. This is straight from the book 1984 this is the writing on the wall of what's to come, if we all just sit back and just let it happen.
A police officer had to tell me and explain to me the concept of a power trip and how lots of police officers let the power authority of being a police officer has get to their head and then they believe that they have more power and authority and it leads to irrational anger, and then they let all that anger that power that authority get to their head and they will just try to arrest someone anyone an easy target for literally no reason And it can also get very very violent very angry very quickly Have a police officer is in a power trip. Then they have no reasoning with them and a police officer. Also then told me that there is no reasoning with them. Your best thing to do is to escape if you can if they are in your house phone police ironically again ask for a police officer to come in to check on the situation And a police officer would usually come and help you, but you might need to explain the exact situation and just say that you have a police officer in your house that’s abusing their power. But obviously you want to do it as quietly as you can and it’s not easy.
REMINDER OF WHAT "HOMOPHOBIA" MEANS: "The irrational fear of BEING homosexual". Thats the actual definition, the original definition. The aggression of homophobes comes from a NEED to "PROVE" THEY are not gay by being mean to gays. So YES, the officer is being the LITERAL DEFINITION of homophobic. Being "accused" of being lesbian triggered her homophobia.
@@Apostate_ofmindThe biological reasoning behind phobias, such as arachnophobia is because some of them are venomous, so our ancestors developed a fear for them that is passed down to us to be a warning. I don't think they realize how that can be used against them should the opinions towards homosexuality turn a majority negative. You already see it in antiwoke circles, people calling themselves homophobes as a badge of honor. If this mindset takes over, the meaning will change again.
Thank you for covering this case Misha. This has been causing quite a stir here in the UK. The female officer who took offence clearly is not fit to be a police officer and is a disgrace to the uniform. If that police force had a shred of integrity, she would have been fired immediately. My sincerest best wishes to the young girl and her family, I hope they know how much support there is out there for them.
The moment the population will lose respect for the law enforcement, is when that country is doomed to function properly. One of the best pieces of evidence that a country is doing well is the percentage of that country's population who respects their police forces. In Russia for example, or Africa, the trust and respect for the police is miniscule and these regions are known for not a good living standard at all. In Nordic countries, the respect for the police is very high up to 90% of the population has a great and respectful attitude toward the police and the living standards are very high.
@@nikokapanen82It's actually the other way around. Respecting law enforcement doesn't make a country function properly on the other hand in a country that functions properly people respect law enforcement. If in a country the system doesn't work the citizens will be bitter with the government and law enforcement (since you could say that law enforcement is the military of politicians) and that will cause riots and distrust between people and political establishments.
I think it's almost universal that people can be arrested for COC (contempt of cop), just because they don't screen out the ones that can't control their emotions and remain rational.
I am an autistic woman and if I would have been in that situation (surrounded by all those people, everybody talking at once, people trying to get close to me) I would have completely lost it and would have had a meltdown! The sensory overload would have simply been too much! And it would have kicked me over the edge of self-control, resulting into tears and maybe screaming (if I REALLY let it all out) Cops should learn how to behave when an autistic person is involved! You know, we try our best to blent in with society. But it's a fact that our brains are "wired" differently and we can't always hide that.😧
@ronald2840 YES! Absolutely! I mean, don't they learn how to handle different situations as well? For example when a person tries to commit suicide. Aren't they taught how to talk to that person and how to treat them in that situation to prevent them from going through with it? Or am I remembering that wrong? And if they are not, they definitely SHOULD be taught how to handle situations involving people with a mental illness or neurodivergent people!😰😮💨
That’s the weaker argument, the stronger point is, even if the person wasn’t autistic, and even if they were meaning to insult the police officer , it should NOT be a criminal Offence. The way insult has now been defined as assault is deeply worrying. Not only from a policing perspective , but should a left wing government become elected, it’s only a small step for insulting the government to become criminalised.
@@strippins Section 5 is often misused for this purpose in principle it means provocation not that insulting someone is offence and as it is in effect a minor offence resulting in a fine it is important to question if reasonable grounds for arrest and on basis of facts there was no grounds for arrest as Engage-Deescalate-Warn was potential action if not ignoring the comment would also work
autistic people are different , as well as people with down syndrome or schizophrenia . very few of them can learn how to "tallk correctly" and hold inside their autistic enthusiasm( or at least learn when to release it ) . but the large majority of autistic people are misunderstood by Society , and it's NOT because autistic people deserve human rights or tolerated approach in a way simular to minorities . even if you will give autistic people all the tolerance , money and power in the world - it will not fix their problams or make autistic people happier , because most of them can't even speak correct words out of their Mouth or have a propper understanding of what to do with infinite amount of : tolerance , money and power. most of autistic people simply CAN'T UNDERSTNAD social concepts , such as: property , Society , merriage , trigger warnings and the list goes on ... for those reasons they prefer to limit themself into the world inside where they don't have to deal with their werid and unsocial behavior . to understand the autistic mind better , let's imagine this : you are a 4 years old child and you drink a cap of water for the first time . until now - milk was the only source of drink and Beverage , now you can also drink water when you are thirsty ! most kids would stop there . but when you are autistic you remember that there is also water in rain puddles or toilets . and once you been introduced to water , the next time you see a rain puddle or visit the toilet , you will try to check how different water taste . while to other people it whould seem repulsive and inappropriate ( including myself ) , let's ignore for a moment all the social norms we grown to accept and think of it this way : no one ever died from drinking water from the floor , in fact , the type of water who is most likley to be Contaminated are the water humans drink : we are adding to water too much suger along with artifical colors and flavores which make most of our food and drink unhealthy , if you drink rain and other water for your entire life you will be much healthier then drinking water and juices based on human behavior ( not that i reccomend ) . autistic people are just way more creative and strange then others , we can't normalize all our social norms for their comfort . but when autistic person is in danger of getting arrested or publicly shamed by other people , we should protect them and understand that there are minorities in need of our support OTHER then the LGBT community or whatever politions wants us to supports . when did polititans become honest and selfless ? thenk you for reading this ❤( i have an autism myself , as well as my sweet littel sister who suffering from infantile autism )
@@brosef5033 I know. I meant the officers as there were a few there, so used the plural. Mainly the female officer who got 'offended' and the others arresting the girl
The fact that the she was so offended by an innocent and not even slightly homophobic comment, that she and the officers were deliberately physically abusing the girl because they thought she was homophobic really says a lot about the kind of people who are let in the police force
I'm a lesbian who has been misgendered all of my 64 years. Am I due a breakdown or a tantrum yet? Or should I just get on with my life, like a grown up.
the adults have left the room. its all in the hands of tall children, bratty tall children at that. In fact, that might be insulting to children, some of whom i have seen act with a lot more maturity than this...
@ronald2840"Ask god into your heart, give your life to Christ, and read the Bible. It’s never too late, good people don’t go to heaven, forgiven people do." This discussion is not about dusty storybooks.
@ronald2840 if you’re referring to the fact that this person is a lesbian then bro, shut the hell up. No one needs your homophobia here. Why you follow the misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic teachings of a figure that you don’t even know is real (and let’s face it, he probably isn’t) is beyond me.
This made me cry. As an autistic who used to have speech impediments, I can confirm that people like this are the reason why I didn’t speak much in my early childhood. If I don’t feel safe, I’m not speaking.
Regarding the situation (and as an actually autistic girl) people with autism can be quite blunt. But if you take a comment like that to heart you probably shouldn't be a police officer. I hope that girls ok now
Like even if it was an actual insult, as a police officer you're responsible for acting based on logic and reasoning, not emotions. If you let emotions control you so easily like this you shouldn't be protecting the people, you might just hurt them instead.
She was drunk or high or whatever. The GIRL CHOSE to put herself in that state. If she had not chosen to get drunk and start trouble requiring police involvement, NONE OF THIS WOULD'VE HAPPENED. And yes, I think it's beyond ridicule that the girl was arrested for saying something about lesbians. But if she had not been drunk and high, even with autism she may not have made such statements.
In the UK, you can be arrested for anything considered "hate speech". So the police monitors social media to see if anyone says naughty words online. Meanwhile "asian" (paki) rape gangs groom little girls and nothing happens, media doesn't even talk about it. As you can see, the island has its priorities straight, no pun intended.
I remember some months ago, the UK political commentator Posie Parker was visited by the police because she was being "untoward about p*edophiles" in some of her videos, so this case with the autistic girl is disgusting and vile but surely not shocking for me
When I went to school in the 90s-00s the students got their feelings hurt all the time. We used the f slur left and right. At no point did anyone try to call the police to arrest the kids responsible. We sucked it up and moved on. Literal elementary school kids have more common sense and strength than UK police.
I thought this was a USA thing. I had no idea that this insanity has spread around the world...and it's not illegal to insult a cop, in the United States, anyway. This is absurd.
@@jaycraw6978 Coppers can't even catch thieves, let alone a child-groomers ring. Arresting someone for "offensive words" is much easier, especially when those they arrest are teenagers.
It has been happening for years. It's because of Communication Act from 2003. A "blasphemy" law that is so vague & broad in meaning. Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) had a speech about this "hate speech" law on UA-cam. He's the prominent person who fights this bloody authoritarian law.
Three things: First, as an autistic person, I'm pissed that this girl who, as Misha said, may not have the filter most neurotypical people have is being arrested for making a strange but completely innocent observation. Second, you know what happens when someone comes at me with the "straight, white male" crap when I don't fall in lockstep with what they believe? Nothing. I correct them and ask what immutable characteristics have to do with what someone believes. There's no point being upset about someone falsely believing I'm straight. Third, I'm not sure how the UK's speech laws are structured, but my understanding is that it wasn't this bad throughout modern history until the last ten or fifteen years, when people started getting butthurt over tripe like this. Sure they didn't have Free Speech the way we do over here, but at the same time, it's distressing to know that saying the wrong thing to the wrong person is increasingly being used as grounds for criminal prosecution. Amendment to my comment about Free Speech: I live in Michigan, where "misgendering" someone can get you ten years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both. That's right: in Michigan, "misgendering" someone is now treated with the same penalties as a gun crime. 🙄🤦♂️
As another autistic person, I feel sorry that you have to live in a state with crappy laws like that. Imagine if we made an observation like “oh that woman has green hair” but that woman says she’s a man and then calls the cops 💀 absolutely insane. Stay safe out there 😕
Oh my god that’s a law? That’s so stupid. If people are misgendered, it’s most probably an innocent mistake so why can’t they just move on with their lives? Like it’s literally not even that difficult. People need to grow up. Hope you’re doing fine as well
Hey I’m an autistic child and I live in the UK… I struggle a lot with remembering pronouns and stuff and while I wouldn’t go over to an officer and just say stuff (I haven’t got autism that severely, though it does affect my life quite a lot sometimes and I may end up doing something ‘triggering’ to some kind of authority, like misgendering someone) but it’s genuinely scary… sometimes when I’m stressed I do hit myself, and make some strange noises/actions when I’m super stressed. I know for a fact I would react in a similar way to this and I would probably scream and hit them (and get in further trouble for ‘assaulting’ a police officer) , all because of some comment that was actually quite innocent in context. Here’s hoping she’s ok. It’s awful how shitty this place is. I’ve been called a transphobe and stuff and been harassed for it and the funny thing is? I do believe myself to be a trans person. Shits getting fucked up, and we’re having a lot of crime in the news and stuff and there’s like 3 officers that could be preventing murder that are physically and emotionally hurting a teen for some non offensive WORDS. This is genuinely angering. If you got this far, thanks for reading this. Also, thanks Misha for covering this.
Please do not ‘struggle’ with pronouns, because investing ANY brain power into this ridiculousness is wrong. I hope I get arrested for “misusing” pronouns sometime, because then I can let these morons know what I really think about them! I don’t know what happened to our world but I wish I could wake up & it was 25 years ago. The world right now is a sick woke joke!
I hope you're OK. Apparently, autistic teens are easy targets for coppers or anyone in authority like that to be exploited. In 2017, there was an autistic girl in Liverpool who was arrested for writting a rap song's lyrics containing n-words as a tribute for her friend who died in a car accident. Her friend liked that song, that's why she wrote in on her instagram. She was fined, got curview of 8 weeks, & had to undergo a traumatic trial. Fortunately, her family sued back in 2019 & won. There was an autistic boy who got expelled from school because he was accused of harrassment for being "creepy" towards his female classmate. All he did was smiling & touching her arm to gain her attention because he was trying to talk to her.
You and me both. It's so exhausting to have to remember not only all the cues but now all the pronouns and all the randomass things people get offended over.
@@silentautisticdragon-kp9sw they removed my comment so. Let’s try again. Pronouns and gender/sex and designated at birth technically the womb. Go by there actual pronouns. Don’t let the mentally ill win
The UK has been full nanny state/authoritarian/1984 for quite some time, but significantly worst in the last ten years. The social contagion has completely infected every aspect of their institutions.
A lot of autistic people don't have the understanding of social rules like neurotypical do. I'm autistic and when I was a kid a was called rude for saying litteraly anything that crossed my mind without realizing that it could hurt people (for example telling somebody that i don't like a gift they offered me, because in my mind I thought it was okay to inform them so they could buy me something i loved next time. It wasn't mean, but then I was taught that it was not okay and ungrateful to say such a thing and I realized that it was making the person sad by informing them that i did not like their gift), and even if I've learned a lot, sometimes I still say things that hurt people feelings without realizing it... Also, since the cops are informed that the girl is autistic, they should be more cautionnous and avoiding shouting or touching this person. Some autistic people have a very hard time being touched, and all this sudden noise and agitation could trigger a sensory overload leading to a meltdown where the girl could have lost any ability to control herself and hurt herself ot the others around. The girl has a neurodevelopmental disability. The cop doesn't. The adults are supposed to be mature enough to overcome this, especially coming from somebody with a disability. They simply should have tried to explain that it was innapropriate, but honestly I don't understand how telling to someone that they look like a lesbian is bad ? Except if the cops doesn't like lesbians and takes this as an insult ? I don't understand why it is insulting frankly, it's not as if she said "oh you're ugly just like my grandmother was"... Also, i would like to add that I see SO MUCH tik tok defending the rights of disabled people, so much woke claming that they have this and that disability/mental illness. But then, when they stumble onto an autistic person that hurt their feelings without realizing it, they're just forgetting all of the preaches they constantly do. Not saying it's the case for all the community and I'm sure some things they did have actually helped, but I think there is a lot of hypocrisy in all these groups (mental health awareness, body positive, etc.)
This girl will be scarred for life by the experience, every police 'person's present should be charged with assault and sacked as none stood up for her. Absolutely disgusting treatment.
WOW. Please keep us updated on the autistic girl's situation, it is absurd. I'm in the UK, I'm an autistic man, I could literally have my life ruined and then broadcasted to the world because I'm autistic. This was an irrational fear of mine as a kid. IRRATIONAL.
Context: the girl was taken home by the police since she was drunk. When they arrived home, she made the comment about one of them looking like their grandma who is a lesbian. The UK police are high on massive ego trips.
As an autistic guy, I feel it's pretty embarrassing that these officers put a lot of emphasis on neurodiversity, but first of all, have no idea what's the difference between a normal comment an autistic person makes and homophobia. Autistic people just often have their own headspace, and that sometimes leads to references other people don't understand. But even worse is that they then mistake an autistic meltdown for aggression. Really embarrassing.
Even if it was intended as an insult and person saying it wasn’t autistic, it’s not a big deal. Actual homophobic hate crimes exist. (I.e a lesbian couple were assaulted by a group of men) If you get upset by a comment like this then you shouldn’t be in the Police. Also it’s very obvious that the girl is autistic, so the Police’s response is a disability hate crime.
It also teaches that words and physical violence is treated the same. Hell in some cases, physical violence is punished lesser. So they(lawmakers) think it will stop all potential problems, but all itll do is transfer it to a physical crime more likely. Basically if saying "I hope someone shoots her" is punished closely to actually shooting them, then there are only 2 real paths a person can take if they will be punished the same either way.
As someone who is both gay and autistic, I never really felt offended for people calling my gay or a f@g before I even knew I was gay. People especially the authority needs to grow a pair. My heart goes to the girl who had to deal with this
Same… I don’t like being called those things, but I still get on with my life, it’s still a word at the end of the day. I believe in freedom of speech first…. it’s a very basic right in the USA that i don’t want gone. I feel like being overly offended by it and having a tantrum makes you look weak imo.
it's created by woke policies within the police force. The charges were dropped because they know that they violated the policing guidelines and Equality Act.
I didn’t read the article, but I get what the comment is saying. I have seen cops come up with any excuse to arrest someone that damages their egos. That is really common, in the US at least.
@@davemccage7918 show me proof When I see woke people they always say that they are accepting and nice but then they have the audacity to arrest over stupid stuff like that
If you can’t handle a comment (not even an offensive one !) made by a 16 yr old teenage girl you should not be in the police. And they were 7 to arrest this girl ?? They didn’t have anything else to do like arrest real criminals ? Anyway great video Misha as always.
Same thing happened to me. Was having a meltdown at a train station and the passengers were fearing for my life. 4 people called 999 to report a mental health crisis just for the police to arrive and arrest me claiming I was drunk. I was hitting my head on the concrete, punching myself and lashing out at others which is was ‘warranted’ my arrest. Police in the uk have absolutely no clue how to deal with any situation relating to mental health, especially autism. Really hope this girl is okay.
I heard this story over the radio on my way to work the other day and I was absolutely appalled. As someone who has an autistic sibling I'm honestly really concerned about the police's reaction to an innocent comment. People really need to get over themselves.
Sensitive training how to handle autistic people.. trust me in the US & my state that kind of thing is not allowed. Without a warrant. The police d’ go for sensitive training.
Of course it is! You can only call them non men loving non men! Because the only difference between men and woman is that woman are not men, obviously woman are less than men! /s
It does suck how cops are more worried about them being respected then protecting the people, and they just let crime go, I feel it’s out of laziness the police don’t wanna deal with it, it’s more paperwork for them to put in more time and energy to deal with it, but then it shows criminals they can just get away with anything, which in turn will create more crime.
Thank you for this, Misha. My 20 year old is autistic. Was born without the ability for language. Took several years of in home therapy and special programs to change that. He has a severe stutter now we're working on. Autistics literally will just state something as facts, and people can't understand the difference between a person making a factual observation and an insult. It's ridiculous! This poor little girl must have been so scared. I hope this woman gets fired & never hired again anywhere else. She deserves nothing less.
My little sister is autistic. She used to go up to people and would ask really blunt questions like "Why are you so ugly?" are we gonna start arresting autistic kids who don't have the social skills to understand what is and isn't an appropriate question?
I am an autistic 18-year old and I have a girlfriend (not romantic) who identifies as a man and wants me to treat her like a man. Throughout 18 years of my life, I've never spoken to or interacted with an LGBT person in real life. Never have I ever seen a neurodivergent individual and her "trans" reveal has been causing me stress because I've tried desperately to get over it but couldn't because she is the only neurodivergent person (she has ADHD and told me that she also stims and is sensitive just like I am) in the school and because she's also a biological girl with a voice of a girl, it presents me an opportunity to get along with the girls who are neurodivergent and like-minded. We are mostly like-minded but her desire to become a man and how she actively pursues it is something I have never been taught in my life and most likely I won't be able to help that much but remain neutral and stay out of the gender warfare because I don't want to be labelled a "homophobe", "transphobe" "queerphobe" and such. I am a man who wants to have a family but also a man with a mental disability called "autism" which negatively impacts my social interactions due to my behavior being perceived as "sub-human". But now, I don't worry just about neurotypical people perceiving me as weird but also I am worried about how I'm going to interact with LGBT people who would make negative remarks on me and call me names because I did something on accident and not on purpose.
This is terrible. I burst into tears when that poor girl shrieked as her Mom tried to defend her. I have a young adult autistic daughter and I'm so frightened for her whenever she's out of my sight because so many humans are terrible.
I'm gay & I don't care if the whole world hates me, as long as I don't get beat up or fired from a job because of it. This crowd has been brainwashed into thinking that if they are offended, it's a violent crime against them. They have no idea how much they are shrinking their own rights done to nothing soon.
@@mrpickles-hb6zx Thank you & you are making my point. Most people are very accepting. Arresting an autistic kid for saying a word is frightening. Why did she assume it was meant in a hateful way & why such an extreme reaction?
They seriously need to get a grip. I happen to also like girls but don’t really associate myself with the community and I’m an autistic girl from the UK. There was absolutely nothing offensive about what she said and even if it was out of line, someone shouldn’t be arrested for it, especially not someone who finds it hard to monitor their language. We should not be policing people’s language to the extent that it is today. The world has gone absolutely crazy, thanks for bringing light to the situation Misha 💕
As a guy with autism from the USA, who happens to like guys… I agree with all that. I’m so done associating with the “community”… and i’m so much happier for it. This girl obviously was not trying to be offensive at all, and I don’t see anything offensive about what she said🤷♂️.And even if it was offensive, that response would be blown out of proportion.
I remember few years back arguing with my idiotic woke roommate about censorship online and criminalizing "hate-speech" and how he was vehemently reassuring me that it would never ever get out of hand... these types of measures would just be against the badies and yazis and people calling out racial slurs etc. Not only I was prove right and he wasn't, situation is far far worse, that I could even imagine back then.
Thankyou for bringing this to light. I live in Pontefract West Yorkshire and even recognize sed police officer, I hope she gets sacked for this. Absolutely appalling treating this girl this way. Police are supposed to de escalate the situation not make it worse. This hasn't been on news here either which is worrying
Autistic people are more likely to tell the truth and not lie and they're more logical so they will stay biological fact and I should know I'm autistic myself😅
As someone with autism and adhd, this not only angers me but also scares me cuz like…what if it happens to me? Or someone close to me? This was really hard to watch, like I can’t believe cops would do that to someone.
its not homophobia. its self hatred. She would be able to handle the term lesbian, if she actually was proud of herself and who she is and felt secure with that. Realistically she shoulda laughed and said "yeah its the hair" cause we really all do know, its the hair. Everyone i know that is lesbian, has the hair. Its not an insult. People want to be identified by how they LOOK in 2023, so exactly why was this cop so offended? Would it be wrong to tell a trans person, that they look like a woman now that theyve transitioned? Or that they look like their a trans woman or man? If you dont want to be called something that offends you, dont dress that way or simply go reflect. because theirs some issues deep within LOL Im from the US and i stand with you and the rest of the sane UK. i cant believe society has shifted this bad.
it IS homophobia, but from the officer! The definition of homophobia is : "the fear of BEING gay". Thats why the suffix -phobia is in there. (and why "internalized homophobia" makes no sense, its already internal!)
Misha I thank you for your compassion for this autistic teen. I'm also glad you pointed out that being a hooligan and a criminal is not okay no matter what age you are.
And to think that Hellyweird put out so many movies back in the day when people would (I remember personally as a little kid) say to each other “you’re gay!” Or “That’s gay.” As an expression and NO ONE back in the good ole days got all up in arms about jokes in movies!!! This world has literally gone insane! And needs a chill pill! Like oh my Gosh! 😂 Seriously though everyone should be ashamed of themselves who grew up back in the days of not giving a care! It used to be totally radical.. Now they’ve become some radical nut jobs. Shame on them for doing this to a person who has a mental issue in this mixed up backwards world. Shameful.
I have two autistic cousins and an autistc nephew... the way you teach an autistic person the world is by being specific and direct with the information, like you do with children. Humans learn things by repeating them, that goes with knowledge and language, experiences they have with all kind of people and how specific and repetitive the parents and familiars help them to learn social behaviours... the fact that this girl understands what a lesbian is because someone dear to her is one shows how much she cares about that person and how she cares about learning... This is unacceptable! The cops that mistreated her and her mother deserve to be pulled out of the police force as soon as possible and be sued by the family!
I just keep thinking about another girl truly being assaulted and needing help while this number of law enforcement officers were busy arresting a helpless disabled teenager. So essentially two crimes were allowed to happen because this woman's feelings were hurt. Textbook narcissism.
Guess we better understand why the First Amendment was the _first_ amendment. They had experience with the speech-regulating ways of the English government.
All the nonsense about potential homophobia aside, the idea that they're treating someone like this despite having their disabilities explained to them by the mother is crazy. Dare I say... abelist?
I’m an autistic white Christian (ikr I’m such a bad person) teenage girl in the uk and I always get accused of being rude and homophobic I love this but it hurts to watch. Society is collapsing and it’s genuinely really scary. The world is giving 1984 😂
Shame you've fallen for Christian propaganda. Do you think that's why they call you homophobic? It's says in the Bible that all LGBT people should be unalived so I can see why they would call you such.
I think the officer herself is actually being unreasonable. If someone told me I looked like a lesbian, I wouldn’t get angry and I’d just laugh it off. Most women probably would. The fact the cop got so upset over a rather harmless comment shows her true colours.
Of course it's the UK. We arrested a teenage girl just for posting rap lyrics on Instagram with n-words in it as a tribute because her late friend who died in a car accident loved that song. Our dimwitted police force cares more about someone's "offensive" words than actual theft, robbery, & other real crimes. Bloody hell.
@@revan5293 Aye. Search Chelsea Russell Liverpool. She was arrested in 2017 & she was given an eight-week 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. curfew, an ankle tag, & orders to pay a £500 fine & an £85 victim fee (even though there was no real victims of hers in this case because she didn't force those words/lyrics onto anyone in particular). She sued back & won in 2019. She was convicted under the 2003 Communications Act. It's a blasphemy law, which is a stupid bloody law because of how vague it is & how easy it can be exploited as a totalitarian law.
As a lesbian, I often get called funny things by children in my family or my friends' families. A few weeks ago I worked as a volunteer on a vacation, founded by a charity, for children who cannot afford it, some of them had special needs. While I was filling in some forms ehich every one of us had to, a random girl came up to me and started talking to me. She was really sweet and then she all of the sudden asked me if I have a boyfriend. I just said I didn't, because I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to talk about this with a 7-year old. She added "maybe it's because you look like a boy." I answered "maybe." She then started playing with my hair while talking to me about some completely other topics. The thing is it was a pleasant interraction, I wasn't offended at all and I think people shouldn't take unfiltered comments to heart and I don't know what the matter was with this cop.
I know right! She wasn't using it as an insult either. Just pointing out she was like her Grandma. Her Grandma is married to a woman! She's no way homophobic! I'm not sure what high schools are like these days, but when I was in high school 2001 to 2006, she most likely would have got bullied because her Grandma was a lesbian. I'm guessing that the police woman must have been bullied in high school to be so triggered, or rejected by family. Or maybe just been convinced the whole world is against her because of who she's attracted to. This video really hit me because my baby girl is 3 and she's just been diagnosed with autism. She's so innocent in everything she does, they just don't have the same filter as most people. The world is so confusing to her and finding any little patterns or similarities seems to give her comfort. I just assumed this was what this teenage girl was doing.
Mass murder suspects who have been arrested have been treated with more respect than this girl. I fear you're correct Misha, as the testicles of woke attitudes ensnare more of the culture we will be be seeing more of this.
the thing is aswell, autistic people (not all) tend say how they see things, not in a rude way but in a nice way. she probably loves her grandmother dearly and thought it was cool! it's not a bad thing 😭😭
I'm going with your theory #2. These people are so "woke" they can't think & function in reality. Extreme victim status - they're ALWAYS looking for something to be offended by. It's exhausting & creates perfect opportunities to abuse others in situations like this - especially the UK police. They say officers in the USA are so brutal, but look at UK law enforcement. They show up in huge numbers over crap like this ALL THE TIME. Police state.
I miss when cops arrested real criminals. Also, being autistic, this is terrifying. Thankfully, I live in the US (in a red state no less) so I can safely that I’m not worried about this happening to me
I'm autistic and I feel that girl so much. We have to live in the world which is not made for us, our life is complicated (I should say that I don't feel oppressed because of this, that's just how the world works), and people like this are making our lives so much harder. I clearly see that this girl had sensory overload when they were arresting her for literally nothing, and in that state we're so vulnerable cus of all that sensory information and they just made that so much more severe. I thought almost everybody knows that you have to leave person in the state of sensory overload alone, and don't touch them at all. Everything about this situation is horrible and I glad that people talk about it
As a British person who is also autistic I can only apologies for the state of my country. That is why I'm entering politics to fix this country and make it the free and democratic country I thought I grew up in. Maybe we need more autistic politicians. Also I wouldn't trust the conclusion of any internal police investigation. They never find themselves guilty.
What sickens me is the fact that people are behind bars in other states for far less offenses. But in the cities - and for an even worse crime, you're supported by your governor?
West Yorkshire Police have a reputation for heavy handed policing like this, this was a straight up abuse of power and broke at least a dozen guidelines. I'm not a lawyer, but no laws were broken by the girl here. Yeah, British Police forces are recruiting with Diversity and Inclusion. It's fully top down. I think you need to make a British police skit.
Wtf is this world we’re living in? I’m not autistic but I’m learning disabled and struggle to read social cues, and have always felt so bad when I said something that was intended to be funny or kind and someone ended up getting offended by it. I can’t imagine how scary this must’ve been for that poor girl…
Misha, I want to correct you, I am an autistic person myself and live a few miles from where this took place and also studied law here in the UK. Firstly, the girl said that the police officer (female) "looked like her lesbian grandmother", a comparison was made, in the girls private home. In UK law there is no power of arrest for calling a cop anything at all. there is no law or offence for doing such. the police office mis-used a Public Order law called the Public Order Act 1986 section 5 to giver the police officer the power to arrest for the "hurty" words the girl said to the officer. However, the words were uttered while the girl was in her home, not in Public making the Public Order Act 1986 not a valid application of law (it does not apply in a private home). this then led to the arrest being unlawful as there were no legal grounds for arrest as not crime or law had been cited as to what offence had been committed. Then we have the law of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (aka PACE) section 17 (police powers to enter and search premises or people). Section 17 only allows police to enter a private dwelling (home), to effect arrest for a warrant, for specific crimes like animal health and children and young person's offences (running away from child care homes etc) apprehending a fugitive of lawful custody (i.e. a prison fugitive) or for a serious crime known as an indictable offence in the UK those are Murder, Rape, Fraud, Terrorism etc crimes that need a Judge and Jury to be tried. Calling a cop a "hurty" word is not an indictable or either-way crime it is a summary offence a low-level crime similar to a misdemeanour in the USA. these are such things as common assault (low level injury), theft of small value items (not a diamond heist or bullion, more like a car or stealing from shops like looting or shoplifting), motoring offences, public order offences like swearing in public causing offense to the public at large, which is where this cop took the law from and applied to a private home. This is not the law or way policing is done in the UK, however it is the way that certain officers are choosing to apply the law on their own choices. The girl was released later from police custody without any charges, because the police knew that there was no crime committed and the girl could not be charged with an offence. The UK police have a set of rules called 'The Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999' Schedule 1, in this legislation the police are expected to uphold certain standards of conduct whilst on and off duty. sections 3, 4, 6 and 12 of that regulation were all broken by every single officer on scene (seven officers in total), every single officer had a duty to abide by those regulations. they are:- *Politeness and tolerance* 3. *Officers should treat members of the public and colleagues with courtesy and respect, avoiding abusive or deriding attitudes or behaviour*. In particular, officers must avoid favouritism of an individual or group; *all forms of harassment, victimisation or unreasonable discrimination*; and overbearing conduct to a colleague, particularly to one junior in rank or service. *Use of force and abuse of authority* 4. Officers must never knowingly use more force than is reasonable, nor should they abuse their authority. *Lawful orders* 6. The police service is a disciplined body. Unless there is good and sufficient cause to do otherwise, *officers must obey all lawful orders and abide by the provisions of Police Regulations. Officers should support their colleagues in the execution of their lawful duties, and oppose any improper behaviour*, reporting it where appropriate. *General conduct* 12. Whether on or off duty, police officers should not behave in a way which is likely to bring discredit upon the police service. The UK Government has a body called the HMICFRS (His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services) rb.gy/l6hlt this states that the police and their staff must take into consideration a young or vulnerable adult or persons welfare and if possible, avoid taking them into custody at all. These officers did no such thing, seven officers all pursued an attack on an autistic and terrified girl, not a single officer pulled the female officer aside and said _"hey, ya know what it's no big deal, i know ya dont like what was said but no harm is done, this girl is terrified were out of the rule of law here, let's just leave let it settle down and if we need to we can come back and arrest her if it serves the public interest after talking to our superiors for advice"_. not a single officer second thought their actions or attempted to de-escalate the situation. It is criminal behaviour. I also feel that it is a MiPO (Misconduct in Public Office), as defined by the UK prosecutor (Crown Prosecution Service - CPS) rb.gy/hn4j2 they state: _"Misconduct in public office (“MiPO”) is a common law offence that can be tried only on indictment (a serious crime). It carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The offence concerns serious wilful abuse or neglect of the power or responsibilities of the public office held. There must be a direct link between the misconduct and an abuse of those powers or responsibilities"_ I would say that all seven of those officers are guilty of MiPO and should be tried for that crime. The female officer and her colleagues by extension and their lack of reticence to carry out their unlawful act along with the female officer. The Police in West Yorkshire have made a statement rb.gy/g1tck where they say they are no longer pursuing any charges. In truth because they have none, and they broke the law to make a charge to arrest unlawfully. they are trying to pour oil on the waters to prevent a backlash over the assault of an autistic girl by police, because that is what this amounts too, under the guise of enforcing the law, which was not even present in anything these officers did.
You would think the police have way more urgent cases to worry about but apparently, a girl calling the officer a lesbian is an absolute priority. This is embarassing.
She didn't call the cop a lesbian.
So what we she detained for? The story is hard to follow if that’s not what happened.
Disgusting
@@bj5731 She said something along the lines to the cop that she "looked like her grandmother who is a lesbian". Absolute unforgiveable felon, Am I right?
There are people who literally play in traffic but this is where the UK cops draw the line.
I’m autistic and this is especially upsetting to me, because one of the things I struggle with, and have struggled with all my life, is accidentally upsetting and offending people because I don’t always realise when I comment I intend to be funny, or even kind, will come across as rude.
There's also the possibility that the people on the receiving end lacks humor or is a bad person.
It’s very difficult to control blunt comments. I also agree with the reply, people nowadays get so offended, even by compliments.
I deal with the same issues. Hate having to walk on eggshells. That actually worsens my health problems and I’d even react the same as the autistic girl in the video
As a fellow neurodivergent the left tries to use us as pawns in their game.
I feel your pain. I have a very big tendency to piss ppl off. Tho usually it's bc I'm giving them hard facts and they don't like it.
I’m British and I SINCERELY hope this family sue the police to high heaven. Absolutely outrageous and that poor girl is probably traumatised for life. And then when the inevitable pendulum swing comes, these stupid women like the policewoman there will cry about how they have no idea why this has happened.
Yes. Ironically the Police response is itself a Disability Hate Crime.
I am not from the uk. But literally this cop is wrong in every way possible. She’s needs to be fired and sued. She does look like a lesbian tho. 😂
End the cop eithet job, or other.
@@peteryang8991 Isn't Australia pretty woke already? Especially in Victoria.
@@revan5293 "I am not from the uk. But literally this cop is wrong in every way possible. She’s needs to be fired and sued. She does look like a lesbian tho. "
Just because she acted like that people will start to call her a lesbian for the sake of it. That's the consequence of being a bad person.
She’s autistic!!! How inhumane to arrest her for something she said. This is absolutely unacceptable.
"DIE YOU FUCKING COP PIG." => Acceptable free speech, reasonable language.
"You look a bit butch." => Grounds for execution on the spot.
it dont matter that she is autistic she can say what she wants in her own home.
what next ? the police bugging all homes to make sure they dont say any offensive words. This is straight from the book 1984 this is the writing on the wall of what's to come, if we all just sit back and just let it happen.
@derbettnasser4027 agreed.
Its still injustice even if she was not autistic. It absolutely unacceptable anyway.
@@johnjay370 I agree with you.
This is a disgusting abuse of power.
cops already laughed it out,not taken any further the cop got a yelling at.
A police officer had to tell me and explain to me the concept of a power trip and how lots of police officers let the power authority of being a police officer has get to their head and then they believe that they have more power and authority and it leads to irrational anger, and then they let all that anger that power that authority get to their head and they will just try to arrest someone anyone an easy target for literally no reason And it can also get very very violent very angry very quickly
Have a police officer is in a power trip. Then they have no reasoning with them and a police officer. Also then told me that there is no reasoning with them. Your best thing to do is to escape if you can if they are in your house phone police ironically again ask for a police officer to come in to check on the situation And a police officer would usually come and help you, but you might need to explain the exact situation and just say that you have a police officer in your house that’s abusing their power. But obviously you want to do it as quietly as you can and it’s not easy.
Police are called that for a reason poo lice perfectly encapsulates the type of people that they are > Poo and Lice.
It's not the first time
As a woman with autism and ADHD, this infuriates me to no end. I can’t imagine how she must have felt. My heart goes out to her and her family.
She was released in 20 hours.. She ll need instive therapy.
REMINDER OF WHAT "HOMOPHOBIA" MEANS:
"The irrational fear of BEING homosexual".
Thats the actual definition, the original definition.
The aggression of homophobes comes from a NEED to "PROVE" THEY are not gay by being mean to gays.
So YES, the officer is being the LITERAL DEFINITION of homophobic. Being "accused" of being lesbian triggered her homophobia.
"Homophobe" is a generic and meaningless physical taunt. Akin to a chimpanzee pousing its chest
@@JamesEvans-ow1wc it used to mean something, before the postmodern rainbow brigade decided "definitions are oppressive"
@@JamesEvans-ow1wc Same thing to “transphobe”.
Yeah, if the lady wasn’t a lesbian, she could have just laughed it off. If someone said that to me, I would have laughed it off.
@@Apostate_ofmindThe biological reasoning behind phobias, such as arachnophobia is because some of them are venomous, so our ancestors developed a fear for them that is passed down to us to be a warning. I don't think they realize how that can be used against them should the opinions towards homosexuality turn a majority negative.
You already see it in antiwoke circles, people calling themselves homophobes as a badge of honor. If this mindset takes over, the meaning will change again.
Thank you for covering this case Misha. This has been causing quite a stir here in the UK. The female officer who took offence clearly is not fit to be a police officer and is a disgrace to the uniform. If that police force had a shred of integrity, she would have been fired immediately. My sincerest best wishes to the young girl and her family, I hope they know how much support there is out there for them.
And Imprisoned
@@TheGreySage0she was for 20 hours…
Same story here in Australia. You have to 'respect' the police or you can be jailed. It's craziness.
The moment the population will lose respect for the law enforcement, is when that country is doomed to function properly. One of the best pieces of evidence that a country is doing well is the percentage of that country's population who respects their police forces. In Russia for example, or Africa, the trust and respect for the police is miniscule and these regions are known for not a good living standard at all. In Nordic countries, the respect for the police is very high up to 90% of the population has a great and respectful attitude toward the police and the living standards are very high.
Stop voting for people that support this. Resist this!
@@nikokapanen82It's actually the other way around. Respecting law enforcement doesn't make a country function properly on the other hand in a country that functions properly people respect law enforcement. If in a country the system doesn't work the citizens will be bitter with the government and law enforcement (since you could say that law enforcement is the military of politicians) and that will cause riots and distrust between people and political establishments.
I think it's almost universal that people can be arrested for COC (contempt of cop), just because they don't screen out the ones that can't control their emotions and remain rational.
That's called tyranny.
I am an autistic woman and if I would have been in that situation (surrounded by all those people, everybody talking at once, people trying to get close to me) I would have completely lost it and would have had a meltdown! The sensory overload would have simply been too much! And it would have kicked me over the edge of self-control, resulting into tears and maybe screaming (if I REALLY let it all out) Cops should learn how to behave when an autistic person is involved! You know, we try our best to blent in with society. But it's a fact that our brains are "wired" differently and we can't always hide that.😧
@ronald2840 YES! Absolutely! I mean, don't they learn how to handle different situations as well? For example when a person tries to commit suicide. Aren't they taught how to talk to that person and how to treat them in that situation to prevent them from going through with it? Or am I remembering that wrong? And if they are not, they definitely SHOULD be taught how to handle situations involving people with a mental illness or neurodivergent people!😰😮💨
Exactly. I’m an English teen and if this happened to me and they were grabbing me and stuff then I would lose my shit. So dumb
Or they should learn how to job their job and arrest people for actual crime
That’s the weaker argument, the stronger point is, even if the person wasn’t autistic, and even if they were meaning to insult the police officer , it should NOT be a criminal
Offence.
The way insult has now been defined as assault is deeply worrying. Not only from a policing perspective , but should a left wing government become elected, it’s only a small step for insulting the government to become criminalised.
@@strippins Section 5 is often misused for this purpose in principle it means provocation not that insulting someone is offence and as it is in effect a minor offence resulting in a fine it is important to question if reasonable grounds for arrest and on basis of facts there was no grounds for arrest as Engage-Deescalate-Warn was potential action if not ignoring the comment would also work
That poor girl. I'm appalled at their treatment of her. Disgusting
autistic people are different , as well as people with down syndrome or schizophrenia . very few of them can learn how to "tallk correctly" and hold inside their autistic enthusiasm( or at least learn when to release it ) . but the large majority of autistic people are misunderstood by Society , and it's NOT because autistic people deserve human rights or tolerated approach in a way simular to minorities . even if you will give autistic people all the tolerance , money and power in the world - it will not fix their problams or make autistic people happier , because most of them can't even speak correct words out of their Mouth or have a propper understanding of what to do with infinite amount of : tolerance , money and power. most of autistic people simply CAN'T UNDERSTNAD social concepts , such as: property , Society , merriage , trigger warnings and the list goes on ... for those reasons they prefer to limit themself into the world inside where they don't have to deal with their werid and unsocial behavior .
to understand the autistic mind better , let's imagine this :
you are a 4 years old child and you drink a cap of water for the first time . until now - milk was the only source of drink and Beverage , now you can also drink water when you are thirsty !
most kids would stop there . but when you are autistic you remember that there is also water in rain puddles or toilets . and once you been introduced to water , the next time you see a rain puddle or visit the toilet , you will try to check how different water taste . while to other people it whould seem repulsive and inappropriate ( including myself ) , let's ignore for a moment all the social norms we grown to accept and think of it this way : no one ever died from drinking water from the floor , in fact , the type of water who is most likley to be Contaminated are the water humans drink : we are adding to water too much suger along with artifical colors and flavores which make most of our food and drink unhealthy , if you drink rain and other water for your entire life you will be much healthier then drinking water and juices based on human behavior ( not that i reccomend ) .
autistic people are just way more creative and strange then others , we can't normalize all our social norms for their comfort . but when autistic person is in danger of getting arrested or publicly shamed by other people , we should protect them and understand that there are minorities in need of our support OTHER then the LGBT community or whatever politions wants us to supports . when did polititans become honest and selfless ?
thenk you for reading this ❤( i have an autism myself , as well as my sweet littel sister who suffering from infantile autism )
Me too 😿😾…
Her treatment. She is a girl, not a they.
@@brosef5033 I know. I meant the officers as there were a few there, so used the plural. Mainly the female officer who got 'offended' and the others arresting the girl
The fact that the she was so offended by an innocent and not even slightly homophobic comment, that she and the officers were deliberately physically abusing the girl because they thought she was homophobic really says a lot about the kind of people who are let in the police force
Truly a police state here in the UK. Imagine getting arrested for "mean words" said to a complete stranger online. Absolute sissies.
In NI if you have a verbal argument with your loved one that's considered domestic abuse
@@vasyear That's crazy! Couples always argue!
@@Gh0stGaminginc That's true over here you argue with your other half the psni consider that domestic abuse
I'm a lesbian who has been misgendered all of my 64 years. Am I due a breakdown or a tantrum yet? Or should I just get on with my life, like a grown up.
the adults have left the room. its all in the hands of tall children, bratty tall children at that.
In fact, that might be insulting to children, some of whom i have seen act with a lot more maturity than this...
@ronald2840 Do you know how terrible you sound? Who gave YOU the authority to declare ONLY forgiven people go to heaven.
I get misgendered because of my short hair but I’m vert straight 😂. I just correct them.
@ronald2840"Ask god into your heart, give your life to Christ, and read the Bible. It’s never too late, good people don’t go to heaven, forgiven people do."
This discussion is not about dusty storybooks.
@ronald2840 if you’re referring to the fact that this person is a lesbian then bro, shut the hell up. No one needs your homophobia here. Why you follow the misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic teachings of a figure that you don’t even know is real (and let’s face it, he probably isn’t) is beyond me.
This made me cry. As an autistic who used to have speech impediments, I can confirm that people like this are the reason why I didn’t speak much in my early childhood. If I don’t feel safe, I’m not speaking.
Regarding the situation (and as an actually autistic girl) people with autism can be quite blunt. But if you take a comment like that to heart you probably shouldn't be a police officer. I hope that girls ok now
True. I can be bad as a kid with some things that come out of my mouth without thinking first.
Same
100%! I mean cops get called every name under the sun. It's just ridiculous
Like even if it was an actual insult, as a police officer you're responsible for acting based on logic and reasoning, not emotions. If you let emotions control you so easily like this you shouldn't be protecting the people, you might just hurt them instead.
She was drunk or high or whatever. The GIRL CHOSE to put herself in that state. If she had not chosen to get drunk and start trouble requiring police involvement, NONE OF THIS WOULD'VE HAPPENED.
And yes, I think it's beyond ridicule that the girl was arrested for saying something about lesbians. But if she had not been drunk and high, even with autism she may not have made such statements.
These officers deserve jail. And hell. Absolutely disgusting.
I curse them to a special place I call Hell Jail.
How do you arrest someone for words? As usual in the UK, the police don't do their job :)
In the UK, you can be arrested for anything considered "hate speech". So the police monitors social media to see if anyone says naughty words online.
Meanwhile "asian" (paki) rape gangs groom little girls and nothing happens, media doesn't even talk about it. As you can see, the island has its priorities straight, no pun intended.
Yep
Yes tragically it is against the law in England to cause offence by your speech. You can be arrested and prosecuted for literally anything.
How did society get so pathetic
@@Gh0stGaminginc more like western countries I believe. The east would never support alphabet rainbow community
I remember some months ago, the UK political commentator Posie Parker was visited by the police because she was being "untoward about p*edophiles" in some of her videos, so this case with the autistic girl is disgusting and vile but surely not shocking for me
WHAT 😃
Not surprising ..
When I went to school in the 90s-00s the students got their feelings hurt all the time. We used the f slur left and right. At no point did anyone try to call the police to arrest the kids responsible. We sucked it up and moved on. Literal elementary school kids have more common sense and strength than UK police.
I thought this was a USA thing. I had no idea that this insanity has spread around the world...and it's not illegal to insult a cop, in the United States, anyway. This is absurd.
Nah they've been arresting people for words in the UK for a while now, while ignoring grooming pdf rings.
@@jaycraw6978 Coppers can't even catch thieves, let alone a child-groomers ring. Arresting someone for "offensive words" is much easier, especially when those they arrest are teenagers.
It has been happening for years. It's because of Communication Act from 2003. A "blasphemy" law that is so vague & broad in meaning. Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) had a speech about this "hate speech" law on UA-cam. He's the prominent person who fights this bloody authoritarian law.
@@P.Whitestrake ah ah ah! They can only catch Autistic kids with physical disabilities. The other ones are too fast
You should do more research... because stuff like this is FAR WORSE in places like the UK.
Three things:
First, as an autistic person, I'm pissed that this girl who, as Misha said, may not have the filter most neurotypical people have is being arrested for making a strange but completely innocent observation.
Second, you know what happens when someone comes at me with the "straight, white male" crap when I don't fall in lockstep with what they believe? Nothing. I correct them and ask what immutable characteristics have to do with what someone believes. There's no point being upset about someone falsely believing I'm straight.
Third, I'm not sure how the UK's speech laws are structured, but my understanding is that it wasn't this bad throughout modern history until the last ten or fifteen years, when people started getting butthurt over tripe like this. Sure they didn't have Free Speech the way we do over here, but at the same time, it's distressing to know that saying the wrong thing to the wrong person is increasingly being used as grounds for criminal prosecution.
Amendment to my comment about Free Speech: I live in Michigan, where "misgendering" someone can get you ten years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both. That's right: in Michigan, "misgendering" someone is now treated with the same penalties as a gun crime. 🙄🤦♂️
Freedom of speech essentially died here due to the Communications Act of 2003 as Count Dankula has pointed out several times in his videos.
As another autistic person, I feel sorry that you have to live in a state with crappy laws like that. Imagine if we made an observation like “oh that woman has green hair” but that woman says she’s a man and then calls the cops 💀 absolutely insane. Stay safe out there 😕
Oh my god that’s a law? That’s so stupid. If people are misgendered, it’s most probably an innocent mistake so why can’t they just move on with their lives? Like it’s literally not even that difficult. People need to grow up. Hope you’re doing fine as well
@@callummoore6962 intelligent people find comparatives. You appear incapable of finding comparatives. So...
@@AGnorTheChannel Wow that's unnecessary abrasive for no reason
Hey I’m an autistic child and I live in the UK… I struggle a lot with remembering pronouns and stuff and while I wouldn’t go over to an officer and just say stuff (I haven’t got autism that severely, though it does affect my life quite a lot sometimes and I may end up doing something ‘triggering’ to some kind of authority, like misgendering someone) but it’s genuinely scary… sometimes when I’m stressed I do hit myself, and make some strange noises/actions when I’m super stressed. I know for a fact I would react in a similar way to this and I would probably scream and hit them (and get in further trouble for ‘assaulting’ a police officer) , all because of some comment that was actually quite innocent in context. Here’s hoping she’s ok. It’s awful how shitty this place is. I’ve been called a transphobe and stuff and been harassed for it and the funny thing is? I do believe myself to be a trans person. Shits getting fucked up, and we’re having a lot of crime in the news and stuff and there’s like 3 officers that could be preventing murder that are physically and emotionally hurting a teen for some non offensive WORDS. This is genuinely angering. If you got this far, thanks for reading this. Also, thanks Misha for covering this.
Please do not ‘struggle’ with pronouns, because investing ANY brain power into this ridiculousness is wrong. I hope I get arrested for “misusing” pronouns sometime, because then I can let these morons know what I really think about them! I don’t know what happened to our world but I wish I could wake up & it was 25 years ago. The world right now is a sick woke joke!
Don’t do the pronouns that is the designated at birth
I hope you're OK. Apparently, autistic teens are easy targets for coppers or anyone in authority like that to be exploited. In 2017, there was an autistic girl in Liverpool who was arrested for writting a rap song's lyrics containing n-words as a tribute for her friend who died in a car accident. Her friend liked that song, that's why she wrote in on her instagram. She was fined, got curview of 8 weeks, & had to undergo a traumatic trial. Fortunately, her family sued back in 2019 & won.
There was an autistic boy who got expelled from school because he was accused of harrassment for being "creepy" towards his female classmate. All he did was smiling & touching her arm to gain her attention because he was trying to talk to her.
You and me both. It's so exhausting to have to remember not only all the cues but now all the pronouns and all the randomass things people get offended over.
@@silentautisticdragon-kp9sw they removed my comment so. Let’s try again. Pronouns and gender/sex and designated at birth technically the womb. Go by there actual pronouns. Don’t let the mentally ill win
The UK has been full nanny state/authoritarian/1984 for quite some time, but significantly worst in the last ten years. The social contagion has completely infected every aspect of their institutions.
I mean the book 1984 takes place in the UK.
A lot of autistic people don't have the understanding of social rules like neurotypical do. I'm autistic and when I was a kid a was called rude for saying litteraly anything that crossed my mind without realizing that it could hurt people (for example telling somebody that i don't like a gift they offered me, because in my mind I thought it was okay to inform them so they could buy me something i loved next time. It wasn't mean, but then I was taught that it was not okay and ungrateful to say such a thing and I realized that it was making the person sad by informing them that i did not like their gift), and even if I've learned a lot, sometimes I still say things that hurt people feelings without realizing it...
Also, since the cops are informed that the girl is autistic, they should be more cautionnous and avoiding shouting or touching this person. Some autistic people have a very hard time being touched, and all this sudden noise and agitation could trigger a sensory overload leading to a meltdown where the girl could have lost any ability to control herself and hurt herself ot the others around.
The girl has a neurodevelopmental disability. The cop doesn't. The adults are supposed to be mature enough to overcome this, especially coming from somebody with a disability.
They simply should have tried to explain that it was innapropriate, but honestly I don't understand how telling to someone that they look like a lesbian is bad ? Except if the cops doesn't like lesbians and takes this as an insult ? I don't understand why it is insulting frankly, it's not as if she said "oh you're ugly just like my grandmother was"...
Also, i would like to add that I see SO MUCH tik tok defending the rights of disabled people, so much woke claming that they have this and that disability/mental illness. But then, when they stumble onto an autistic person that hurt their feelings without realizing it, they're just forgetting all of the preaches they constantly do. Not saying it's the case for all the community and I'm sure some things they did have actually helped, but I think there is a lot of hypocrisy in all these groups (mental health awareness, body positive, etc.)
This girl will be scarred for life by the experience, every police 'person's present should be charged with assault and sacked as none stood up for her. Absolutely disgusting treatment.
The police force should pay 💰 for her threpy sessions..
WOW. Please keep us updated on the autistic girl's situation, it is absurd. I'm in the UK, I'm an autistic man, I could literally have my life ruined and then broadcasted to the world because I'm autistic. This was an irrational fear of mine as a kid. IRRATIONAL.
Context: the girl was taken home by the police since she was drunk. When they arrived home, she made the comment about one of them looking like their grandma who is a lesbian.
The UK police are high on massive ego trips.
Diversity hires...
So not only was she autistic, but also drunk and they KNEW THAT and still focused on the small comment she made. That's ridiculous!
This is why freedom of speech is so important, more important even than anyone's sense of "offense".
As an autistic guy, I feel it's pretty embarrassing that these officers put a lot of emphasis on neurodiversity, but first of all, have no idea what's the difference between a normal comment an autistic person makes and homophobia. Autistic people just often have their own headspace, and that sometimes leads to references other people don't understand. But even worse is that they then mistake an autistic meltdown for aggression. Really embarrassing.
Thank goodness I had no bad experience with police in the USA 🇺🇸 NJ. The UK 🇬🇧 treats autistic people horribly..
Even if it was intended as an insult and person saying it wasn’t autistic, it’s not a big deal. Actual homophobic hate crimes exist. (I.e a lesbian couple were assaulted by a group of men) If you get upset by a comment like this then you shouldn’t be in the Police.
Also it’s very obvious that the girl is autistic, so the Police’s response is a disability hate crime.
It also teaches that words and physical violence is treated the same. Hell in some cases, physical violence is punished lesser. So they(lawmakers) think it will stop all potential problems, but all itll do is transfer it to a physical crime more likely. Basically if saying "I hope someone shoots her" is punished closely to actually shooting them, then there are only 2 real paths a person can take if they will be punished the same either way.
What worries me is how many other incidents like this there have been that have flown under the radar because nobody was able to film it...
A LOT
As someone who is both gay and autistic, I never really felt offended for people calling my gay or a f@g before I even knew I was gay. People especially the authority needs to grow a pair. My heart goes to the girl who had to deal with this
Same… I don’t like being called those things, but I still get on with my life, it’s still a word at the end of the day. I believe in freedom of speech first…. it’s a very basic right in the USA that i don’t want gone. I feel like being overly offended by it and having a tantrum makes you look weak imo.
This isn’t necessarily a woke thing, if a police officer gets offended by pretty much anything they can arrest you for it as ridiculous as it is.
it's created by woke policies within the police force. The charges were dropped because they know that they violated the policing guidelines and Equality Act.
Exactly 😂 this is nothing new🙄
Police have been getting butt hurt and using excessive force/arresting and some cases killing folks since forever.
Didn’t you read the article?
I didn’t read the article, but I get what the comment is saying. I have seen cops come up with any excuse to arrest someone that damages their egos. That is really common, in the US at least.
@@davemccage7918 show me proof
When I see woke people they always say that they are accepting and nice but then they have the audacity to arrest over stupid stuff like that
If you can’t handle a comment (not even an offensive one !) made by a 16 yr old teenage girl you should not be in the police. And they were 7 to arrest this girl ?? They didn’t have anything else to do like arrest real criminals ? Anyway great video Misha as always.
It can usually take up to 3 Days for the UK Police to come out to a Burglary they are a Joke.
Same thing happened to me. Was having a meltdown at a train station and the passengers were fearing for my life. 4 people called 999 to report a mental health crisis just for the police to arrive and arrest me claiming I was drunk. I was hitting my head on the concrete, punching myself and lashing out at others which is was ‘warranted’ my arrest. Police in the uk have absolutely no clue how to deal with any situation relating to mental health, especially autism. Really hope this girl is okay.
Absolutely, they really need better training on dealing with neurodivergant people or those having a mental health crisis.
As an adult with autism this is just sad. Literally. Just. SAD.
Yes I'm from England it's disgusting my family has been a victim of this bloody disgusting behaviour this all needs to stop
Get Nigel Farage in No 10.
I heard this story over the radio on my way to work the other day and I was absolutely appalled. As someone who has an autistic sibling I'm honestly really concerned about the police's reaction to an innocent comment. People really need to get over themselves.
Sensitive training how to handle autistic people.. trust me in the US & my state that kind of thing is not allowed. Without a warrant. The police d’ go for sensitive training.
I didn't know that "lesbian" is a derogatory word, you always learn new things.
Of course it is! You can only call them non men loving non men! Because the only difference between men and woman is that woman are not men, obviously woman are less than men! /s
I have autism and I can confirm that sometimes we don't know what to filter out and what not to, but either way, her comment wasn't offensive.
It does suck how cops are more worried about them being respected then protecting the people, and they just let crime go, I feel it’s out of laziness the police don’t wanna deal with it, it’s more paperwork for them to put in more time and energy to deal with it, but then it shows criminals they can just get away with anything, which in turn will create more crime.
This is inhumane and unethical and if you can be arrested because of an officer’s feelings your country is doomed.
As someone who has been diagnosed as on the spectrum I find that arrest disturbing.
Me too.
Thank you for this, Misha. My 20 year old is autistic. Was born without the ability for language. Took several years of in home therapy and special programs to change that. He has a severe stutter now we're working on. Autistics literally will just state something as facts, and people can't understand the difference between a person making a factual observation and an insult. It's ridiculous! This poor little girl must have been so scared. I hope this woman gets fired & never hired again anywhere else. She deserves nothing less.
My little sister is autistic. She used to go up to people and would ask really blunt questions like "Why are you so ugly?" are we gonna start arresting autistic kids who don't have the social skills to understand what is and isn't an appropriate question?
In the UK 🇬🇧 they do..
I am an autistic 18-year old and I have a girlfriend (not romantic) who identifies as a man and wants me to treat her like a man. Throughout 18 years of my life, I've never spoken to or interacted with an LGBT person in real life. Never have I ever seen a neurodivergent individual and her "trans" reveal has been causing me stress because I've tried desperately to get over it but couldn't because she is the only neurodivergent person (she has ADHD and told me that she also stims and is sensitive just like I am) in the school and because she's also a biological girl with a voice of a girl, it presents me an opportunity to get along with the girls who are neurodivergent and like-minded.
We are mostly like-minded but her desire to become a man and how she actively pursues it is something I have never been taught in my life and most likely I won't be able to help that much but remain neutral and stay out of the gender warfare because I don't want to be labelled a "homophobe", "transphobe" "queerphobe" and such.
I am a man who wants to have a family but also a man with a mental disability called "autism" which negatively impacts my social interactions due to my behavior being perceived as "sub-human". But now, I don't worry just about neurotypical people perceiving me as weird but also I am worried about how I'm going to interact with LGBT people who would make negative remarks on me and call me names because I did something on accident and not on purpose.
This is terrible. I burst into tears when that poor girl shrieked as her Mom tried to defend her. I have a young adult autistic daughter and I'm so frightened for her whenever she's out of my sight because so many humans are terrible.
Thank You for speaking up for Autistic People
As someone who suffers from an anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, seeing this terrifies me. That poor kid, I hope shes okay...
I'm gay & I don't care if the whole world hates me, as long as I don't get beat up or fired from a job because of it. This crowd has been brainwashed into thinking that if they are offended, it's a violent crime against them. They have no idea how much they are shrinking their own rights done to nothing soon.
I don't see a reason to hate u
@@mrpickles-hb6zx Thank you & you are making my point. Most people are very accepting. Arresting an autistic kid for saying a word is frightening. Why did she assume it was meant in a hateful way & why such an extreme reaction?
They seriously need to get a grip. I happen to also like girls but don’t really associate myself with the community and I’m an autistic girl from the UK.
There was absolutely nothing offensive about what she said and even if it was out of line, someone shouldn’t be arrested for it, especially not someone who finds it hard to monitor their language. We should not be policing people’s language to the extent that it is today.
The world has gone absolutely crazy, thanks for bringing light to the situation Misha 💕
As a guy with autism from the USA, who happens to like guys… I agree with all that. I’m so done associating with the “community”… and i’m so much happier for it. This girl obviously was not trying to be offensive at all, and I don’t see anything offensive about what she said🤷♂️.And even if it was offensive, that response would be blown out of proportion.
I remember few years back arguing with my idiotic woke roommate about censorship online and criminalizing "hate-speech" and how he was vehemently reassuring me that it would never ever get out of hand... these types of measures would just be against the badies and yazis and people calling out racial slurs etc.
Not only I was prove right and he wasn't, situation is far far worse, that I could even imagine back then.
I feel bad for the teen hope she okay it just shows what clown world we live in right now.
Thankyou for bringing this to light. I live in Pontefract West Yorkshire and even recognize sed police officer, I hope she gets sacked for this. Absolutely appalling treating this girl this way. Police are supposed to de escalate the situation not make it worse. This hasn't been on news here either which is worrying
Thank you Misha for the work you are doing. You are appreciated and needed very much!
Autistic people are more likely to tell the truth and not lie and they're more logical so they will stay biological fact and I should know I'm autistic myself😅
Same here.
As someone with autism and adhd, this not only angers me but also scares me cuz like…what if it happens to me? Or someone close to me? This was really hard to watch, like I can’t believe cops would do that to someone.
I mean this story basically sums up our current police force's state in one short title 😑😑😑
You can’t commit a Public order offence in your own house
its not homophobia. its self hatred. She would be able to handle the term lesbian, if she actually was proud of herself and who she is and felt secure with that.
Realistically she shoulda laughed and said "yeah its the hair" cause we really all do know, its the hair.
Everyone i know that is lesbian, has the hair. Its not an insult. People want to be identified by how they LOOK in 2023, so exactly why was this cop so offended?
Would it be wrong to tell a trans person, that they look like a woman now that theyve transitioned?
Or that they look like their a trans woman or man? If you dont want to be called something that offends you, dont dress that way or simply go reflect. because theirs some issues deep within LOL
Im from the US and i stand with you and the rest of the sane UK.
i cant believe society has shifted this bad.
it IS homophobia, but from the officer!
The definition of homophobia is : "the fear of BEING gay". Thats why the suffix -phobia is in there.
(and why "internalized homophobia" makes no sense, its already internal!)
7 officers to arrest an autistic teenager, must be a slow night at the station.
first thing to say, he is autistic, these people need to have manners for people who have disabilities, physical or mental
If a politician ever refuses to condemn a crime you’re right to always assume they benefit from it
Misha I thank you for your compassion for this autistic teen. I'm also glad you pointed out that being a hooligan and a criminal is not okay no matter what age you are.
In Australia we have disgustingly high numbers of 12-13 year olds stealing cars and breaking into homes. Broken world.
And to think that Hellyweird put out so many movies back in the day when people would (I remember personally as a little kid) say to each other “you’re gay!” Or “That’s gay.” As an expression and NO ONE back in the good ole days got all up in arms about jokes in movies!!! This world has literally gone insane! And needs a chill pill! Like oh my Gosh! 😂 Seriously though everyone should be ashamed of themselves who grew up back in the days of not giving a care! It used to be totally radical.. Now they’ve become some radical nut jobs. Shame on them for doing this to a person who has a mental issue in this mixed up backwards world. Shameful.
You hit the nail on the head, many of these people simply behave like immature individuals and not like adults.
I have two autistic cousins and an autistc nephew... the way you teach an autistic person the world is by being specific and direct with the information, like you do with children.
Humans learn things by repeating them, that goes with knowledge and language, experiences they have with all kind of people and how specific and repetitive the parents and familiars help them to learn social behaviours... the fact that this girl understands what a lesbian is because someone dear to her is one shows how much she cares about that person and how she cares about learning...
This is unacceptable! The cops that mistreated her and her mother deserve to be pulled out of the police force as soon as possible and be sued by the family!
I just keep thinking about another girl truly being assaulted and needing help while this number of law enforcement officers were busy arresting a helpless disabled teenager. So essentially two crimes were allowed to happen because this woman's feelings were hurt. Textbook narcissism.
Guess we better understand why the First Amendment was the _first_ amendment. They had experience with the speech-regulating ways of the English government.
As a South African....I'm questioning if I should still enlist in the Royal marines at the rate the UK is going.
All the nonsense about potential homophobia aside, the idea that they're treating someone like this despite having their disabilities explained to them by the mother is crazy.
Dare I say... abelist?
I guess gay/trans people are the ultimate protected class in woke society lol
oh, we know disabilities dont even register on their totem pole of oppression.
(While they should be the only ones on it...)
Just ignorance is what it is.
I’m an autistic white Christian (ikr I’m such a bad person) teenage girl in the uk and I always get accused of being rude and homophobic I love this but it hurts to watch. Society is collapsing and it’s genuinely really scary. The world is giving 1984 😂
Seems Like Autistic People Know How Keep It Real Better Than The Homo's Do 😀😀😀
Shame you've fallen for Christian propaganda.
Do you think that's why they call you homophobic? It's says in the Bible that all LGBT people should be unalived so I can see why they would call you such.
I felt bad for autistic teen, she wasn't even said it as an insult
I think the officer herself is actually being unreasonable. If someone told me I looked like a lesbian, I wouldn’t get angry and I’d just laugh it off. Most women probably would. The fact the cop got so upset over a rather harmless comment shows her true colours.
Really goes to show how weak the uk is right now my heart and prayers goes out to the girl she didn't deserve that
Of course it's the UK.
We arrested a teenage girl just for posting rap lyrics on Instagram with n-words in it as a tribute because her late friend who died in a car accident loved that song.
Our dimwitted police force cares more about someone's "offensive" words than actual theft, robbery, & other real crimes. Bloody hell.
Brooo seriously? I never heard this story but that’s wilddd
@@revan5293 Aye. Search Chelsea Russell Liverpool. She was arrested in 2017 & she was given an eight-week 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. curfew, an ankle tag, & orders to pay a £500 fine & an £85 victim fee (even though there was no real victims of hers in this case because she didn't force those words/lyrics onto anyone in particular). She sued back & won in 2019.
She was convicted under the 2003 Communications Act. It's a blasphemy law, which is a stupid bloody law because of how vague it is & how easy it can be exploited as a totalitarian law.
I hear the frustration in your voice Misha. You speak for the overwhelming majority
If all it took was offending a cop to get arrested most of the residents of Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Manhattan would have an arrest record.
some police are just a joke, most are reasonable people but there's always some who don't deserve that authority
As a lesbian, I often get called funny things by children in my family or my friends' families. A few weeks ago I worked as a volunteer on a vacation, founded by a charity, for children who cannot afford it, some of them had special needs.
While I was filling in some forms ehich every one of us had to, a random girl came up to me and started talking to me. She was really sweet and then she all of the sudden asked me if I have a boyfriend. I just said I didn't, because I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to talk about this with a 7-year old. She added "maybe it's because you look like a boy." I answered "maybe." She then started playing with my hair while talking to me about some completely other topics. The thing is it was a pleasant interraction, I wasn't offended at all and I think people shouldn't take unfiltered comments to heart and I don't know what the matter was with this cop.
That police r officer should go under sensitive training. Especially handling with special needs & mental issues..
I am autistic as well and that Tiktok was hard to watch. Unfortunately I don't think this nonsense is ending anytime soon.
Did that situation really call for all those police in one house? Taking a 16 year old home... must have been a slow night.
Like honestly what did that girl really do other than just say that the officer looked like a lesbian?
I know right! She wasn't using it as an insult either. Just pointing out she was like her Grandma. Her Grandma is married to a woman! She's no way homophobic! I'm not sure what high schools are like these days, but when I was in high school 2001 to 2006, she most likely would have got bullied because her Grandma was a lesbian. I'm guessing that the police woman must have been bullied in high school to be so triggered, or rejected by family. Or maybe just been convinced the whole world is against her because of who she's attracted to. This video really hit me because my baby girl is 3 and she's just been diagnosed with autism. She's so innocent in everything she does, they just don't have the same filter as most people. The world is so confusing to her and finding any little patterns or similarities seems to give her comfort. I just assumed this was what this teenage girl was doing.
Mass murder suspects who have been arrested have been treated with more respect than this girl. I fear you're correct Misha, as the testicles of woke attitudes ensnare more of the culture we will be be seeing more of this.
Cuz of that the Police in the Uk is a laughing Stock
the thing is aswell, autistic people (not all) tend say how they see things, not in a rude way but in a nice way. she probably loves her grandmother dearly and thought it was cool! it's not a bad thing 😭😭
I'm going with your theory #2. These people are so "woke" they can't think & function in reality. Extreme victim status - they're ALWAYS looking for something to be offended by. It's exhausting & creates perfect opportunities to abuse others in situations like this - especially the UK police. They say officers in the USA are so brutal, but look at UK law enforcement. They show up in huge numbers over crap like this ALL THE TIME. Police state.
this is beyond messed up. That female cop is projecting the bullying she got in school . Thinks she is a big dog. More like purse rat .
I miss when cops arrested real criminals. Also, being autistic, this is terrifying. Thankfully, I live in the US (in a red state no less) so I can safely that I’m not worried about this happening to me
living in the U.S. doesn't make you immune from this, as somebody else on here has commented. The world is going nuts.
Same thing happening in Australia sadly.
Me too..
I'm autistic and I feel that girl so much. We have to live in the world which is not made for us, our life is complicated (I should say that I don't feel oppressed because of this, that's just how the world works), and people like this are making our lives so much harder. I clearly see that this girl had sensory overload when they were arresting her for literally nothing, and in that state we're so vulnerable cus of all that sensory information and they just made that so much more severe. I thought almost everybody knows that you have to leave person in the state of sensory overload alone, and don't touch them at all. Everything about this situation is horrible and I glad that people talk about it
Oh my gosh. I’m on Autism spectrum myself and those like me don’t always have a mental filter. This was a little hard to watch as well
Keep making stuff up
@@talusranch990 how is she making stuff up?
@@MATDMixes silence
@@talusranch990 So you not going to answer then?
@@talusranch990I'm autistic, and I can assure you that what she said is true
As a British person who is also autistic I can only apologies for the state of my country. That is why I'm entering politics to fix this country and make it the free and democratic country I thought I grew up in. Maybe we need more autistic politicians. Also I wouldn't trust the conclusion of any internal police investigation. They never find themselves guilty.
I am a person with Asperger’s, I’m younger, I am interested in politics, can you give me some more information?
@@CharlieSmith. What information are you looking for?
@@britishgermanfootballfan2727 how do you get into it? What sort of this in politics are you doing etc
@CharlieSmith. I've joined a political party and planning on standing for election
@@britishgermanfootballfan2727 the Conservative Party? Are there any specific things you need to study aside from politics I assume to start this?
as an autistic girl, you speaking up abt it has made me feel sm better. thank u:) you’re pretty
She thinks being called a lesbian it's an offense...hum, i think we are arresting the wrong person.
This is an act of vengeance and hatred. Not justice at all
What sickens me is the fact that people are behind bars in other states for far less offenses. But in the cities - and for an even worse crime, you're supported by your governor?
Update: All charges were dropped and the police department "is reviewing procedures".
UK need to understand that the book 1984 is a WARNING not a instruction manual
West Yorkshire Police have a reputation for heavy handed policing like this, this was a straight up abuse of power and broke at least a dozen guidelines. I'm not a lawyer, but no laws were broken by the girl here.
Yeah, British Police forces are recruiting with Diversity and Inclusion. It's fully top down. I think you need to make a British police skit.
They have a page where you can leave a 'compliment' you know. I did.
@@tgapete01I definitely ll .
@@tgapete01 I live under their regime, i don't want to risk them sending their stormtroopers since I have a disability myself, but thanks mate.
Wtf is this world we’re living in? I’m not autistic but I’m learning disabled and struggle to read social cues, and have always felt so bad when I said something that was intended to be funny or kind and someone ended up getting offended by it. I can’t imagine how scary this must’ve been for that poor girl…
Misha, I want to correct you, I am an autistic person myself and live a few miles from where this took place and also studied law here in the UK.
Firstly, the girl said that the police officer (female) "looked like her lesbian grandmother", a comparison was made, in the girls private home.
In UK law there is no power of arrest for calling a cop anything at all. there is no law or offence for doing such. the police office mis-used a Public Order law called the Public Order Act 1986 section 5 to giver the police officer the power to arrest for the "hurty" words the girl said to the officer.
However, the words were uttered while the girl was in her home, not in Public making the Public Order Act 1986 not a valid application of law (it does not apply in a private home). this then led to the arrest being unlawful as there were no legal grounds for arrest as not crime or law had been cited as to what offence had been committed. Then we have the law of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (aka PACE) section 17 (police powers to enter and search premises or people). Section 17 only allows police to enter a private dwelling (home), to effect arrest for a warrant, for specific crimes like animal health and children and young person's offences (running away from child care homes etc) apprehending a fugitive of lawful custody (i.e. a prison fugitive) or for a serious crime known as an indictable offence in the UK those are Murder, Rape, Fraud, Terrorism etc crimes that need a Judge and Jury to be tried.
Calling a cop a "hurty" word is not an indictable or either-way crime it is a summary offence a low-level crime similar to a misdemeanour in the USA. these are such things as common assault (low level injury), theft of small value items (not a diamond heist or bullion, more like a car or stealing from shops like looting or shoplifting), motoring offences, public order offences like swearing in public causing offense to the public at large, which is where this cop took the law from and applied to a private home.
This is not the law or way policing is done in the UK, however it is the way that certain officers are choosing to apply the law on their own choices.
The girl was released later from police custody without any charges, because the police knew that there was no crime committed and the girl could not be charged with an offence.
The UK police have a set of rules called 'The Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999' Schedule 1, in this legislation the police are expected to uphold certain standards of conduct whilst on and off duty.
sections 3, 4, 6 and 12 of that regulation were all broken by every single officer on scene (seven officers in total), every single officer had a duty to abide by those regulations.
they are:-
*Politeness and tolerance*
3. *Officers should treat members of the public and colleagues with courtesy and respect, avoiding abusive or deriding attitudes or behaviour*. In particular, officers must avoid favouritism of an individual or group; *all forms of harassment, victimisation or unreasonable discrimination*; and overbearing conduct to a colleague, particularly to one junior in rank or service.
*Use of force and abuse of authority*
4. Officers must never knowingly use more force than is reasonable, nor should they abuse their authority.
*Lawful orders*
6. The police service is a disciplined body. Unless there is good and sufficient cause to do otherwise, *officers must obey all lawful orders and abide by the provisions of Police Regulations. Officers should support their colleagues in the execution of their lawful duties, and oppose any improper behaviour*, reporting it where appropriate.
*General conduct*
12. Whether on or off duty, police officers should not behave in a way which is likely to bring discredit upon the police service.
The UK Government has a body called the HMICFRS (His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services) rb.gy/l6hlt
this states that the police and their staff must take into consideration a young or vulnerable adult or persons welfare and if possible, avoid taking them into custody at all.
These officers did no such thing, seven officers all pursued an attack on an autistic and terrified girl, not a single officer pulled the female officer aside and said _"hey, ya know what it's no big deal, i know ya dont like what was said but no harm is done, this girl is terrified were out of the rule of law here, let's just leave let it settle down and if we need to we can come back and arrest her if it serves the public interest after talking to our superiors for advice"_. not a single officer second thought their actions or attempted to de-escalate the situation.
It is criminal behaviour. I also feel that it is a MiPO (Misconduct in Public Office), as defined by the UK prosecutor (Crown Prosecution Service - CPS) rb.gy/hn4j2 they state:
_"Misconduct in public office (“MiPO”) is a common law offence that can be tried only on indictment (a serious crime). It carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The offence concerns serious wilful abuse or neglect of the power or responsibilities of the public office held. There must be a direct link between the misconduct and an abuse of those powers or responsibilities"_
I would say that all seven of those officers are guilty of MiPO and should be tried for that crime.
The female officer and her colleagues by extension and their lack of reticence to carry out their unlawful act along with the female officer.
The Police in West Yorkshire have made a statement rb.gy/g1tck where they say they are no longer pursuing any charges. In truth because they have none, and they broke the law to make a charge to arrest unlawfully.
they are trying to pour oil on the waters to prevent a backlash over the assault of an autistic girl by police, because that is what this amounts too, under the guise of enforcing the law, which was not even present in anything these officers did.
Can people sue the pigs for kidnapping?
This being an illegal arrest is kidnapping under color of authority.