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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: [OT] Anatomy of a "non crime hate incident"
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:26:49 -0500
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I recently posted about the existence of "non-crime hate incidents" as a 
new class of offence in Britain and got some fairly perplexed reactions, 
especially when I mentioned that such offences could make you eligible 
for significant jail time.

I just noticed this video which does a deep dive into one such 
"non-crime hate incident", this one being a journalist's tweet. It has 
made the headlines in Britain and brought the police into even greater 
disrepute than they already had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jiTv1duFKo [1 hour, 15 minutes]

Along the way, the journalist shares how these offences first came into 
existence and how even the new Labour government, which clearly supports 
this sort of thinking, is distancing itself from the idea as the 
reaction to this incident circulates.

-- 
Rhino