Fired UK Cop Faces Prison for 'Grossly Offensive' George Floyd Memes

[G.L.R.]

Fired UK Cop Faces Prison for 'Grossly Offensive' George Floyd Memes

May 15, 2022



A now-fired British police officer and former prison guard faces imprisonment for sending "grossly offensive" memes about George Floyd on WhatsApp.

Floyd, who died after U.S. police officer Derek Chauvin... kneeled on his neck during an arrest in Minneapolis, was included among ten memes alleged to be "grossly offensive" which were shared by ex-constable James Watts in a group chat. Sending such messages is a crime under the Communications Act 2003 in the United Kingdom, where the right to freedom of expression is guaranteed only under the very loose parameters laid out in the European Convention on Human Rights and is largely notional. Article 10 of this convention states that people have the "freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers" — but that the exercise of this right "may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties...

Prosecutor Richard Purchase told Birmingham Magistrates' Court that "[f]our of [the memes shared by the accused officer] explicitly referred to George Floyd and the ongoing [Black Lives Matter] protests, and to some extent, mocked his death," claiming that the remaining six appeared to be "more general racist memes.".

This lifelong felon had statues erected for him. This altered meme  depicts Floyd when he actually pointed a gun at a pregnant woman.

Watts pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sending a grossly offensive or menacing message by a public communication network, but co-accused Joann Jinks, still of West Mercia Police, pleaded not guilty to the same offencesWatts, for his part, now awaits his sentencing in June, with Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram making it clear he is not ruling out prison time due to what he described as "aggravating features in this case"... Read more ...

Fired UK Cop Faces Jail for 'Grossly Offensive' George Floyd Memes
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/14/fired-uk-cop-faces-prison-grossly-offensive-texts-about-george-floyd

[Rev.Cambeul]

Freedom of Speech No Longer Exists in the UK - Memes Means Jail
https://creativityalliance.com/forum/general-news/freedom-of-speech-no-longer-exists-in-the-uk-memes-mean-jail

When everything is "RACIST", everything is IMMORAL ...

The Democratically Elected UK Government now uses the same regulations for censorship as do American Prisons. All communications are filtered through rules/laws "in the interests of public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals".

The theory being, ....