A former constable has vowed to take his fight against the police’s professional body to the Supreme Court after a judge warned his former force against behaving like the Gestapo.
Harry Miller said he would continue his fight for freedom of expression after a landmark legal challenge against the College of Policing and Humberside police.
Mr Miller accused the police of being politicised, saying that they had allowed themselves to be driven by the pro-transgender lobby including groups such as Stonewall, Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence.
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The former officer hails “a watershed moment for liberty” following a High Court ruling on Humberside Police’s actions.
A police force unlawfully interfered with a man’s right to freedom of expression by turning up at his place of work over his allegedly “transphobic” tweets, a judge has ruled.
Harry Miller, a 54-year-old former police officer and now docker from Humberside, founded campaign group Fair Cop following the action against him over his Twitter posts.
Read article: Harry Miller: Police unlawfully interfered with freedom of expression over ‘transphobic’ tweets
He fought the thoughtpolice, and he won.
Today is a good day for free speech in Britain. The High Court has ruled that it is unlawful for police officers to harass members of the public for expressing views on the internet that some people find offensive, but are otherwise entirely legal to express. That this even had to be clarified tells us something about how far we’ve fallen, and how sorely this ruling was needed.
Read article: We need more Harry Millers
Ex-cop’s ‘transphobic’ tweets deemed lawful after High Court battle | Metro News
Police probe into former officer Harry Miller’s tweets about transgender people was ‘disproportionate’, High Court judge rules | London Evening Standard
Former police officer’s ‘transphobic’ tweets ruled lawful by High Court – LBC
Transgender tweets were freedom of speech, British judge rules – Reuters
Cops who visited businessman, 54, at work over ‘transphobic’ tweets acted unlawfully – The Sun
Humberside Police ‘learning’ after officers quizzed Fair Cop founder Harry Miller over ‘transphobic’ tweet – Hull Live
Fair Cop founder Harry Miller in partial court win
“Mister Justice Knowles is very clear: We have never had a Gestapo or a Stasi in Great Britain, but the actions of Humberside Police came way too close.
“This is a watershed moment for liberty. The police were wrong to visit my workplace, wrong to check my thinking, wrong in their attempt force feed me the Stonewall – now the Labour Party – Trans rights pledge.
Humberside said they were following the Guidelines and The College of Police agreed. None of that matters. The College of Policing is a private company that issues Guidance with all the legal weight
Graham Linehan, Michael Biggs and Alan Henness on why men need to step up in the Great Gender Debate.
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Three groups of people have applied for judicial reviews
For some years now, schools, the nhs and the police have been accommodating the needs and concerns of transgender people. gids, Britain’s only gender identity clinic for children, based at the Tavistock nhs trust, has been making it easier for trans teenagers to transition medically. But now some critics of the moves are pushing back, claiming that gids is giving children puberty blockers too liberally, and that attempts by other bodies such as the police to combat transphobia are leading to an attack on free speech.
Three groups of people
By Sarah Phillimore
On Friday, January 24th I was alerted to the recently launched Crown Prosecution Service Hate Crime Schools Project on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans+ Hate Crime. In their words:
The pack aims to protect potential victims by deterring would-be abusers and encouraging and supporting victims of identity-based bullying to report incidents. It has been developed by the CPS in partnership with a number of organisations, including Stonewall, the National Police Chiefs’ Council, Gendered Intelligence and NASUWT.
The pack aims to protect potential victims by deterring would-be abusers and encouraging and supporting victims of identity-based bullying to report incidents.
It has been developed by the CPS in partnership with a number of organisations, including Stonewall, the National Police Chiefs’ Council, Gendered Intelligence and NASUWT.
The resource pack for teachers of Key Stages 3 and 4 (ie children aged 11–16) is an updated version of
A former constable at the centre of a landmark legal case over tweets that he sent about transgender people has revealed that he and his family have been threatened with rape and murder.
Harry Miller, 55, was visited last year by police from Humberside, his former force, and told that he would be recorded as having carried out a “hate incident” over a series of tweets about transgender people, including a limerick that he had retweeted which questioned whether transgender women were biological women.
Read article: Ex-officer in transgender tweet case says he received threats
A man involved in a landmark legal case relating to a “non-crime hate incident” says that officers began acting as “thought police” out of the best of intentions.
Harry Miller, 55, from Lincolnshire, was told by an officer a verse he had posted about transgender people on Twitter would be recorded as a “hate incident” under the College of Policing’s guidelines.
Speaking ahead of the judgment on the case, which is expected early next month, he said: “I am pro-police. I do not think that the people in the police force have looked at this and thought how can
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