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Originally Posted by Chris
That’s a breathtakingly naive way to describe six coppers attending, arresting both parents in front of their kids and keeping them in a cell for 8 hours.
The response to this was grossly disproportionate and it is to be hoped that someone in Herts police suffers disciplinary consequences.
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Eight hours does seem excessive, maybe they were trying to get in touch with or liase with the aggrieved parties, or wanted to teach them a lesson, but without taking it any further??
As I said, we don't know what was actually said. She might have used an everyday phrase like 'I'm going to kill him if he does XYZ'. Of course, as it stands that's a threat to kill, but using common sense wouldn't interpret it as such. In this hypothetical situation she would have had chance to explain that it was a figure of speech & not meant literally. They would then have had to contact the aggrieved parties to see if they accepted this explanation. They might have needed time to think it over or to seek legal advice before responding.
Recently a woman who was sacked from our local dry cleaners posted on Facebook that she was going to blow it up. The police visited her and no further action was taken because she agreed to remove her post and replace it with a public retraction and apology.
If they had decided to I imagine that they could have changed her under terrorism legislation, but understood that she was young, upset after being dismissed and had subsequently agreed to make amends.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
By that measure anything can be Malicious or Offensive. In fact Richard if I reported your post to be malicious and offensive to me, I assume you would have no problem with being arrested by six policemen and held in a cell for 8hrs whilst they investigated my claim?
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I think most people would know what was or wasn't offensive and wouldn't make such remarks. However, we can all inadvertently offend people without realising, but in most cases, if the comment(s) are withdrawn and an apology made, there's no harm done.