Police chief says, ‘I hope today’s swift charge and sentencing sends a clear message to anyone who thinks it is acceptable to post racially aggravated comments online.’
31-year-old British father Billy Thompson was arrested and sent to jail for 12 weeks over a Facebook post deemed “offensive or menacing” as defined by the UK’s Communications Act.
Responding to a Cumbria Police post announcing a dispersal order for “potential planned disorder” Wednesday, Thompson wrote, “Filthy bastards,” along with emojis of an “ethnic minority and a gun.”
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31-year-old Billy Thompson was sent to prison for 12 weeks after he replied “Filthy ba**ards” on a post about the Police issuing a dispersal order to try and prevent protests from becoming violent.
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Thompson’s lawyer, Kate Hunter, said her client maintains his comment “relates to police, not to anything else.”
However, district judge John Temperley refused to believe the comment and emojis were directed at the police, instead claiming Thompson engaged in racism by calling minorities “dirty bastards” and including an image of a gun.
The Cumbria Police Facebook page bragged about the arrest in a post explaining, “The court heard how on 7 August 2024, Thompson posted a racially aggravated and threating comment on a Facebook social media post informing the public of a dispersal order being imposed in Carlisle relating to potential planned disorder.”
Chief Superintended Carl Patrick said: “I hope today’s swift charge and sentencing sends a clear message to anyone who thinks it is acceptable to post racially aggravated comments online. This type of behaviour will not be tolerated and will continue to carry out this proactive policing approach. Where there is evidence of people inciting hatred or promoting violence on our streets, our officers will not hesitate to take action. We continue to monitor social media and ask that anyone with any information relating to potential planned disorder in the county contacts police via 101.”
Commenters on the police post were divided between leftists celebrating the arrest and everyone else pointing out the two-tier policing where violent criminals and sex offenders are let loose with a slap on the wrist, yet non-violent citizens are labeled “criminals” for speech.
Cumbria police also nabbed Derek Heggie and Gerard Glaister this week for “posting of racially aggravated offensive online content.”
As the state cracks down on free speech for right-wing citizens, leftist politicians are calling for conservative Brits to have their throats cut and migrants are marching the streets waving machetes, assaulting locals and vandalizing businesses.
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