From: slider@atashram.com

A woman who was challenged by police officers for wearing an anti-Boris
Johnson T-shirt at a Black Lives Matter demonstration is launching legal
action against them over the right to free speech and political debate.

Jessie-Lu Flynn, an actor who is also the founder of the immersive theatre company Wide Eyes, estimates that she has attended more than a dozen demonstrations wearing the “Fuck Boris” T-shirt without being challenged
by the police.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/29/woman-sues-police-for-telling-her-to-cover-up-anti-boris-johnson-t-shirt

But that changed when she attended a BLM demonstration in central London
on 3 June. She did not experience any problems at the demonstration
itself. She said she had seen various banners bearing the same slogan but
did not see any intervention by police officers to challenge those holding these banners.

When she and a friend left the demonstration and were walking to Oxford
Circus she saw two police officers gesturing to her. She did not
understand what they were trying to communicate and went over to speak to
them.

She was asked to zip up her jacket to cover up the slogan and was informed
that she was in breach of section 5 of the Public Order Act, which states:
“A person is guilty of an offence if he – (a) uses threatening words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or (b) displays any writing, sign or
other visible representation which is threatening.”

It is not an offence if they “had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be caused harassment,
alarm or distress”.

Flynn filmed part of the incident on her phone and when she posted it on YouTube it went viral. The officers, from British Transport Police, told
her she was in breach of the law by wearing the T-shirt because it
displayed an obscene word that could cause alarm or distress.

Flynn has launched a legal action arguing that the police actions
interfered with her right to express her legitimate political opinions.

Her lawyers, Joanna Khan and Michael Oswald at Bhatt Murphy Solicitors,
are arguing that the officers were in breach of human rights legislation.
Flynn is seeking assurances that officers will not adopt the same approach
if she wears the T-shirt at future protests and has requested an apology
from the police.

She said that freedom of political debate is at the core of a democratic society.

Flynn said: “When the police told me I had to zip up my jacket to cover up
my T-shirt I thought ’Are you serious?’ I’m very concerned about how rightwing this government is. I feel so strongly that our government is
doing a terrible job and I want to be able to express this. I find the way Boris Johnson has described black people and Muslims is deeply offensive. I’ve had it with these posh Etonian men running the country.”

Khan and Oswald said: “Being able to criticise politicians is
fundamentally important in a democracy. The importance of freedom of
speech should be particularly clear to this prime minister who has
compared women in burqas to letterboxes without any criminal sanction himself.”

British Transport Police declined to comment.

### - this seems like a bit of a stupid article really at first innit,
that is until near the end where she accurately describes old boris and
his etonian-school right-wing friends, who all suffer from this dreadful attitude to the lower classes, and to anyone even lower than that like
ethnic minority groups and immigrants, it seems to be in their very blood?

yet only just a minute or so ago, after nearly dying from the virus, the
boris was profusely thanking the 2 immigrant nurses that had literally
stood by him night and day while he lay there gasping and in fear of
death, he just couldn't thank them enough afterwards like he'd actually
been changed by the whole frightening experience he'd been through, and
had actually become more human?

it soon wore off anyway lol, particularly after the all the protests and
now 'thug' street parties too?

yeah he was almost human there for a couple of minutes that old boris was,
even looked slightly different too, only he's all back to his otherwise fat-self now by jingo + obviously now doesn't give a toss anymore for the either the nurses or the immigrants either...

geez it's like a disease they all have no? that's the only way can explain
it anyhow; they's typical, uncaring, mostly unthinking right-wing nuts who
just adore their roles and themselves lol :)

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