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Met police drop all charges against Graham Linehan's tweets on trans issues.
On the one hand, good. On the other hand, this was sort of inevitable, and the process was probably intended as punishment: if they can cow him into silence without formally charging him with anything, that's cheaper and more efficient for them.
More interesting is that this article also claims that the Met police will stop investigating NCHIs (non-crime hate incidents) because they are too subjective and ambiguous. Kind of amazing that a Western police service is openly announcing "we will stop investigating things that even we ourselves do not consider crimes and return to only investigating crimes", but here we are, I suppose.
Linehan is planning to sue the police for wrongful arrest, and more power to him.
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