The Hate Crime Act could lead to trust in the police being damaged, the president of the body which represents senior Police Scotland officers…
PATRICK Harvie has defended the Hate Crime Act, saying the legislation is being “wildly misrepresented” and dragged into a “culture war space”.co-leader said “people on the right in particular use phrases like free speech as though it only means the freedom to be abusive and vile and unpleasant and prejudiced”.
Yousaf has said “disinformation” has been spread about the Hate Crime Act and there is a “triple lock” to protect free speech.He said ASPS was supportive of the objectives of the Act in tackling hatred against protected groups, but they had concerns around police resourcing. “Sitting within the middle of all that will be a police officer, who will have to make a judgment on whether the threshold is met for the legislation, and whether any of the protections afforded in law can be applied.”
Harvie, meanwhile, said"no individual people" are exempted from the legislation but Police Scotland had"said very clearly that the media reports that that comedians or others would be targeted are complete nonsense."
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