PRIVILEGEFragile female cop causes 16 year old autistic girl to be dragged out of her home kicking and screaming by seven officers and arrested for “Homophobic Publc Order Offense” for saying “You look like my lesbian nana” in her own home.

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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah that's kind of my take. There's no real way to construe that as hateful, unless you assume that a lesbian is a bad thing. (I've looked at the photos and she does indeed look like a stereotypical lesbian).

I want to see the other side of this story personally. The side we are getting points to a really rediculous overreaction and while horrible if true, my BS detectors are going off and I suspect someone is trying to start a public outrage. I'd be very surprised if there isn't extra information we don't know yet.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Always worth considering that there might be more to it. I suspect that the family is one of those families that are “known to the police” because they continually cause low level nuisances, and the police are regularly involved in sorting it out. The hint that that might the case is that the family called the police to bring the autistic daughter home when she got steaming drunk.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah I mean she's 16 which is , underage in the UK as well right? Or is that only for spirits.

It seems like since she was piss drunk and causing a disturbance, it's likely that she might have been screaming bloody murder or something ahead of time and we are just getting the tail end of the story. Or maybe not. Hard to say exactly.

But like you'd have to get really rediculously drunk and disruptive to get police attention in the UK right? It's not like the states where depending on where you at the cops might book you for the night for stumbling a bit on the sidewalk if they think you are drunk. She'd have to be doing something a bit more obnoxious than just drinking too much to get police attention no?

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The law around alcohol and age is complicated but generally you have to be 18 to purchase it from a licensed establishment (pub, supermarket, off-licence etc) except you can buy beer, cider and wine at 16 with a meal.

However, there’s no specific law preventing you giving alcohol, of any type, to your five year old at home. No one does, but the law really only cares about alcohol sales.

There is plenty of leeway inside public order offences to deal with drunken teens causing trouble that there doesn’t need to be specific ones for alcohol.

The cops only seem to have got involved because the family called them to deal with her and that’s probably a sign that she was, or the family was, well known to them.