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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 16, 2024, 08:55:23 AM

Title: Police defend investigation into journalist's social media post
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 16, 2024, 08:55:23 AM
Will be interesting to see what happens on this but 'non crime hate incidents' are a load of bollocks
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev9nxnygzpo
Title: Re: Police defend investigation into journalist's social media post
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 16, 2024, 10:24:11 PM
Some more on this from the police. I'm not sure that it makes much sense to talk about false reporting but let's see what comes out.


https://news.sky.com/story/essex-police-say-they-are-investigating-journalist-allison-pearson-for-alleged-criminal-offence-13255060
Title: Re: Police defend investigation into journalist's social media post
Post by: jeremyp on November 17, 2024, 12:38:34 PM
I think the people who were accused of being "Jew haters" might have a case for libel.
Title: Re: Police defend investigation into journalist's social media post
Post by: ProfessorDavey on November 17, 2024, 03:43:43 PM
Will be interesting to see what happens on this but 'non crime hate incidents' are a load of bollocks
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev9nxnygzpo
Not sure whether police action was justified, but certainly calling people, without evidence, jew-haters does seem pretty incendiary particular in the currently political times.

But there is another point - she must be a particularly shit journalist not to realise that the picture in question was taken in Manchester, not London and therefore her condemnation of the Met police is clearly irrelevant. And that the demonstrators were demonstrating in support of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and therefore unlikely to have any relevance to the Israel/Gaza situation whatsoever. I thought journalists were supposed to carefully check their sources, but hey easy error to mistake the Tehreek-e-Insaf flag for the Palestinian one ... and err, the Manchester Police's uniform for the Met uniform!!! :o