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Originally Posted by Damien
I think it's a case of people who get into little bubbles where they use this hyperbolic language to signal to others within their group that they are righteous but then hit the reality of the real world. Just casual expressions of violence and dehumanisation and this time it's gone too far and he is looking at an actual prison.
Hopefully, this too provides a reality check to people that violent language has consequences - it's not a rhetorical bit of language you can use simply to express yourself.
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Surely even at other times encouraging murder is a prison sentence? I tried to find CPS guidelines but it kept giving me 'conspiracy to murder' which isn't the same thing.
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IANAL but without the aggravating factor of this week’s rioting, his brief could probably argue it was rhetoric that got out of hand and unlikely to be understood as an actual call for murder by anyone present. The fact that he is speaking in direct response to rioting, at a time there is a risk more riots will break out, is what is going to sink him.