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Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The third, on 20 April, said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and, if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

Linehan insisted at the time that while he may have been guilty of making a “bad joke”, he had not been aiming to encourage violence.

Great, now people on TERF island are getting paid to tell their followers to physically assault transgender people.

The judge found that the writer had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up” and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground.

The conviction for damaging their mobile phone was also overturned on appeal.

And get to damage their property without repercussions.