Lincolnshire man challenges police transphobia guidelines

Aug 10, 2019 by

from BBC News:

A man interviewed by police over alleged transphobic tweets is challenging police guidance on hate incidents against transgender people.

Harry Miller, from Caistor in Lincolnshire, was contacted by Humberside Police over a limerick he re-tweeted.

He is now seeking a judicial review of the College of Policing (CoP) guidelines at the High Court.

The CoP said it would be “responding accordingly” to the legal action.

Mr Miller, a former police officer, said his legal challenge would argue that the guidelines undermined his freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights.

He claimed the Humberside Police officer who interviewed him said “you’ve committed no crime, but we need to check your thinking”.

He added that the police’s intervention was a “chilling effect” on free speech.

“Any right-minded person has got to say ‘now hold on a minute that’s not on’,” he said

“We’re turning into a police state if that’s where we’re at and I’m resisting it”.

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