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[-] terry_tibbs@lemmy.ml 163 points 1 year ago

Police can't handle entry level banter here, every officer I've dealt with has been a power tripping cunt including the PCSO's who don't even have arresting powers.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's the worst people that sign up for that job (obviously not all of them). Especially the parts where they wield power the density of assholes increases.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago
[-] gk99@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

You're telling me...

all cops are bastards?

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[-] peto@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Especially the PCSOs.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I've found that white brits can't handle their own banter being directed back at them. They'll say the most outlandish things about the French being cowards who reek of garlic but God forbid someone call British food bland.

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[-] galmuth@feddit.uk 159 points 1 year ago

Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(

Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn't autistic, there'd be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She's a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Educate her, sure

"now honey, what you said was deeply offensive to your grandmother. she doesn't look like a thumb-cop!"

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

The bottom line is, the victim having autism and being young is irrelevant in the sense that no-one should be treated like that for such a trivial insult.

It's obviously still relevant, the victim is particularly vulnerable, making the abuse so much more obviously callous and disgusting. But I say if this happened to Joe Citizen, it would also be horrific.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

That is a pretty sick brurn though. Good on ya, autistic lady whether you meant it as an insult or not. Sorry about the pigs throwing a temper tantrum

[-] johnbrownwasright@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

You shouldn't call cops "pigs." Pigs are intelligent and loving creatures

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Fair, my apologies to the swine. You don't deserve to be associated with cops

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[-] jumperalex@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, SO WHAT FUCK OFF COP, INSULTS AREN'T ILLEGAL!!!

Fixed that for you.

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

I'm an autist, and I very well might have meant it as a burn.

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[-] gaycomputeruser@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Educate her

Lol fuck off allistic

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah fr i was thinking 'yeah that's EXACTLY what an autistic person needs after getting manhandled and detained- a SCOLDING LECTURE over WORD CHOICE! Woohoo!'

Respectfully to the commenter, we get enough of that shit from regular people already. For some, on a daily basis. Sometimes it's just bc they feel like guilting someone. So at least for me, that kind of 'lesson' wouldn't go down without some bile (which I'd prob force back up into someone's face in that situation). The cop looked exactly like her gran and she was right to say it.

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[-] Kofu@lemmy.ml 77 points 1 year ago

She is right. The cops here in the UK are bullies and they treat the public like crap. Bullied in school became a cop to get power, uses power to bully others. The way they treat people is awful. I work in accommodation for the homless and the diffrece in the way the police talk to me and them, is night and day.

Thing is, no one want to be friends with a cop or be in a relationship with them.... could you imagen breaking up with a cop? Fuxk that! i'd sooner cut a finger off.

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Generally, there are two types of CHUDs:

  1. People who were popular in high school and bullied people, and being a CHUD is how they can relive their glory days as the cool kids forever

  2. People who were bullied by group one, and decided to get their revenge on the world by becoming bullies themselves.

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[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

I think this applies everywhere. The power attracts a particular personality type that is less than trustworthy.

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 75 points 1 year ago

When you're a cop, you get to hurt anyone who upsets you in any way. The law is secondary, if it shows up at all. You're a tool for indiscriminate violence.

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

"You snowflakes need to grow a thicker skin!"

"Hold on, you're insulting ME! THAT'S ILLEGAL BUDDY!"

So they expect us to be tougher than them?

[-] moondog@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

These cops would never survive in a CoD lobby.

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

He must look like an aging lesbian. They've blurred his face in every picture.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm jealous of you guys that this is a scandal there.

We Americans would just be like "She's still alive!? Cop must have gotten laid that morning or something to be in such an un-murdery mood."

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

We will get there don't you worry.

The UK police don't have the funding to attrace the uterly ruthless. It isn't reall fair.

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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Upon returning her to the address, comments were made which resulted in the girl being arrested on suspicion of a homophobic public order offence. The nature of the comments made was fully captured on body-worn video.”

So they are justifying their behavior by calling her homophobic?

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[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

Sounds to me like it's the police who are homophobic, taking “lesbian” as an insult.

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alright.

So why are there like 8 police officers in the house before the arresting comment is even said?

Why was this fragile person with scoliosis and severe autism out, pissed up, past midnight on a Monday night in Leeds city centre?

I have no idea, but to play devil's advocate, it kind of sounds like this kid is a piece of shit and got arrested for it, and the parents are hiding her behaviour behind the autism shield for sympathy.

[-] _xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I'm suddenly reminded of that dying man who mooned a speed camera only for loads of police to swarm his house later on.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

That’s a solid burn though.

[-] OofShoot@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

It's not even a burn, if the officer is older they could very well look like that girl's lesbian grandmother. And if they do, so what?

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[-] gaycomputeruser@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

I can't believe this girl said her lesbian grandmother looked like a pig

[-] gaycomputeruser@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah when I'm older I would be rather upset if my kid compared me to a cop. Bullying someone for being old or whatever is really fucking gross. Lesbian grandmas deserve just as much respect, if not more, than most people. If anything, it was a compliment.

[-] mustardman@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[-] jack@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I HATE EVERY COP I HATE EVERY COP I HATE EVERY COP

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

🎶Fuck the police!🎶

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Funny burn, awful treatment. Shame on the police.

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