British police arrest autistic child for ‘homophobia’

British police last week arrested a 16-year-old Leeds girl with autism after the child said she thought one of the officers looked like a “lesbian”.

Seven officers had reportedly driven Amanda home after receiving a call from her sister that the 16-year-old was acting in “unsafe ways”. According to her mother, who goes by Nikita Snow on social media, the girl said she thought one of the officers escorting her was “a lesbian like nanna Julie.”

“I just felt a jolt on my back… the officer had launcher [sic] herself in my home at me and Amanda. She was grabbing her.” Snow told Reduxx.

Amanda ran and hid under the stairs where she began punching herself in distress. She apologized to the officer, who nevertheless assured them she was going to arrest the child.

“She’s getting arrested,” she said. “Another unit’s coming, don’t worry … I’m telling you another unit is coming, she is going to get arrested tonight.”

Snow pleaded with the officer and tried to explain that her daughter was not “homophobic”.

“She’s got autism, can you just stand there please? She’s in a cupboard, she can’t go anywhere,” Snow said. “You’re going to remove her for what? Because she said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she’s married to a woman. She’s not homophobic!”

She also reportedly notified the officers that Amanda has severe scoliosis and a twisted spine. Amanda fell to the ground as she was dragged away by the officers, clutching her shoulder. She was then held in custody for 20 hours and released on bail.

“We recognise the significant level of public concern that this incident has generated, and we have moved swiftly to fully review the evidence in the criminal investigation which has led to the decision to take no further action,” Assistant Chief Constable Oz Khan said in a statement.

“We do appreciate the understandable sensitivities around incidents involving young people and neurodiversity and we are genuinely committed to developing how we respond to these often very challenging situations,” the police added.

UK law defines a “homophobic, biphobic and transphobic crime” as:

Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person because of their sexual orientation or transgender identity or perceived sexual orientation or transgender identity by the victim or any other person.

The law has been applied liberally by authorities who continue to arrest citizens for speaking out against totalitarian gender ideology.

Surrey Police, for example, are attempting to assign a probation officer to a journalist accused of “misgendering” and monitor all her communications. 

Caroline Farrow, a journalist and mother of five, was the subject of a five-month-long police investigation in 2019 for opinions she expressed on social media regarding gender disorientation. According to Farrow, her chief crime was “misgendering” — referring to someone by their actual gender and not the gender they claim to be.

Last year, Farrow was also arrested in her home for “malicious communications and harassment” while she was making dinner for her children. Photos provided by Farrow show police forcing their way into her house. When she asked to see a warrant, they replied, “We don’t need one.” Police seized several electronic devices, including from her husband’s parish next door. They then brought Farrow outside where a female officer subjected her to a body search and took her to the station.

In December, UK Metropolitan Police summoned James Goddard to a meeting due to a social media post which offended rainbow flags.

In July, a decorated British war veteran was arrested for “malicious communications” after police received a complaint about one of his social media posts. The offending post showed a swastika made of rainbow flags, a commentary on the state-sponsored intimidation of citizens to embrace same-sex attraction and gender disorientation.