Posted on 03/26/2016 8:42:11 AM PDT by the scotsman
'Police have dropped a race-hate charge against a man who allegedly tweeted about confronting a Muslim woman over the Brussels terror attacks.
Matthew Doyle, 46, of south Croydon, was charged on Friday morning under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.
Following discussions with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Met said he was "no longer charged" and will not be appearing in court.
It said police may not make charging decisions over section 19 of the Act.
A Met Police spokesman said it was for the CPS, and not the police, to make the decision to charge, and it was withdrawn.
The incident is still under investigation and Mr Doyle has been released while police consult the CPS.
Guidance on the CPS website about racist and religious crime states that a charge under the act "can only be prosecuted with consent of Attorney General" and requires a referral to the Counter Terrorism Division to "be dealt with by specialist prosecutor".'
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Humiliation for the Met Police as the CPS tells them they had NO right to charge talent agency boss with inciting racial hatred over Brussels tweet and he will NOT now appear in court today
It’s a travesty it even came to this.
The government that encourages this kind of PC recriminations needs to be toppled, IMO.
Next up? Sharia Law, burkas, jizya, and bowing to mecca!
Agreed.
Hopefully this will result in more votes for UKIP.
Meanwhile they happily allow towelheads to rape and kill. No hate charged there.
Agreed.
Nice to see sanity prevail.
We don’t allow. Idiotic nonsense. We have jailed more extremists and terrorists than you.
I find Muslim practices such as beheading, wife beating, genital mutilation, car bombs, suicide bombs, airplane bombs, child pedophilia, animal sex....most insulting.
So, the “Counter Terrorism Division” is charged with pursing people who would by their intent counter terrorism.
Yup, that makes sense. /sarc
Am I the only one to notice that this headline makes even less sense than most of them? Good gravy! "Brussels tweet man"?
Others including the political leaders and media should be ask the moderates to show us ‘moderation’ by winning some elections and transforming the theocracies into countries that respect the individual freedom of religion.
Death to Islam
finally soem good news in the EU which has gone absoltuely insane these past few years- let’s hope for the sake of ordinary citizens in the EU that soem modicum of sanity can prevail
hopefully come 24th June, we wont be in the eu.
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