Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 - Read OP

We don't know the full context of what actually happened here at all.

No, I'd say the person was arrested because police believe she abused them.

Can you give me some evidence of the legislation being the same. I think you are making that up to be honest. But maybe you have some information from a reliable source?

Means nothing

Do you think police officers should take abuse from people?

It is, because the legislation is more or less the same; seeking to accommodate and pander to the same weak people in society who obsess about reporting anyone to law enforcement because their feelings are hurt.

It would be just as easy to characterise people complaining about the proposed legislation in Ireland as weak people in society complaining because their feelings are hurt, obsessing about being reported and expecting they should be accommodated. I wouldn’t expect law enforcement to pander to those people who are seeking accommodation, ie - special protection from prosecution when they commit an offence.

The same laws apply to everyone equally.

The fact that someone could be brought into a police station and held there for a significant period of time because of something they said that might have offended a police officer is quite sinister.It's akin to something the Satsi would have done .

There were 6 or 7 police officer used to apprehend that a girl in Leeds for saying something.Is Leeds such a crime free Utopia that there aren't more serious things for the police there to be dealing with?

A sensible police officer would have just let that comment (whether intentionally offensive or otherwise) roll off them and move on, the fact that her colleagues actually went along with her and didn't just tell her to cop herself on and drop the issue is even worse.

Saying someone looks like a lesbian is not abuse.Unless you consider being a lesbian a horrible thing?

The police were not assaulted.

What disgusting behaviour carried out on a teenager with special needs.

I am shocked but not surprised by the people who are downplaying the behaviour of the police.

Let's hope this is not something we see over here.

Where else are officers allowed arrest teenagers for calling someone a lesbian?

Even it is allowed elsewhere its absolutely ridiculous and I can't see how anyone could try downplay it.

Is saying someone looks like someone else abuse? Why would the police officer take such offence at being told she looked like a lesbian that the autistic girl knows? Is the officer homophobic in that she sees lesbian as a terrible slur? What is wrong with lesbians?

If I tell a gay police officer in the U.K. that he looks like David Beckham/Tom Hardy/Brad Pitt will I be arrested for “homophobia”??

They should release the bodycam video but I somehow doubt it will exonerate the police. They should have had a bit of copon (no pun intended) but as the teen was driven home for being drunk I suspect she may have been abusing them throughout the drive home and this comment was the excuse they thought they needed to arrest her.

I agree, but it's still the police reaction that's the fault, not the actual law. The police wete there to nake a point, not uphold a law

If, as certain posters like to claim, the political establishment is so out of touch with the common folk, how is it they keep getting reelected and alternatives on the populist right such as Justin Barretts crowd get nowhere?

I speak as someone who thinks there is no real need for this legislation and the existing legislation around incitement to hatred is already adequate, though not being enforced in relation to the internet.