La polizia di Greater Manchester si rifiuta di scusarsi con LGBTQ+ Community – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e3941d38zo
di CasualSmurf
La polizia di Greater Manchester si rifiuta di scusarsi con LGBTQ+ Community – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e3941d38zo
di CasualSmurf
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> In the mid-1980s, at the height of the Aids crisis, Mr Anderton said gay men were “swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making”, resulting in calls for his resignation.
It’s shocking and disgusting that this was the mindset some people had at the time. Christ
>”I am of course sorry that GMP, and those police bodies which preceded the presently formed GMP prior to 1974, didn’t always perform to the standards deserved by those who we served,” Mr Watson said.
Meh, sounds like a rather manufactured reaction to not giving an apology in the way requested, though I think we should have more apologies from public servants generally (ideally with some genuine contrition behind them) – it should not be seen as weak to apologise for something that was done incorrectly or wrongly.
I suspect there may be a legal worry about opening up to lawsuits – or maybe the police just don’t like admitting they are wrong, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
> In a letter sent to Mr Tatchell in late April and seen by the BBC, Mr Watson said such an apology could be seen as “superficial and merely performative”.
>He said it would also “unfairly impugn the faithful and valued services of past officers” and likely “make little or no difference to developing contemporary practice”.
Tbh, I completely agree. Maybe I’m in the minority here, but as an LGBT person I don’t particularly get the whole obsession with making the police grovel for every historical injustice to have ever happened. The police issuing a formal apology makes no actual difference to me whatsoever. It’s just a gesture.
It doesn’t change what happened in the past, and doesn’t actually accomplish anything. It’s purely symbolic, not productive.