Madeley said she had reported the incident to the Metropolitan police but was told it was not a “hate crime”.
“I was shut down & made to feel as though I was making a fuss over nothing,” she added.
Interesting! What does the Met's own webpage say is the definition of 'hate crime'?
It seems the rozzers are relying on this bit to avoid having to record it (or take any action):
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Surely the key words here are 'perceived by the victim'. The victim in this case would have done well to have researched the police's own definition of a hate crime and then held them to it.
This should be enough to lose him his licence, but it's not a crime. The taking of the wheelchair would only be theft if there was intent to permanently deprive. Given that this was a silly dispute and he was behaving like an arse, there is no evidence that theft was the intention. As for hate crime - this is an abomination. Who the victim is is irrelevant. Do white men not bleed when you cut us?
I'm guessing this wasn't a black cab. Any description of the driver?
Longrider, don't you understand that as white men we are the lowest form of human life and in today's world nobody cares if we bleed or not.
"Surely the key words here are 'perceived by the victim'."
You'd think, wouldn't you?
"This should be enough to lose him his licence, but it's not a crime."
If sending a picture of a monkey emoji to a footballer is a crime, how is this not? I take your point about hate crime but if it's going to be applied, it should be across the board.
"Any description of the driver?"
Strangely, no...
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