Friday, April 27, 2018
UK: She Posted Rap Lyrics to Remember a Dead Teen, So the U.K. Prosecuted Her for Hate Speech
Prosecutors in Liverpool decided they were unable to charge anybody in the death of Frankie Murphy when the 13-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car while riding his bike back in 2016.
But prosecutors did charge and convict a young woman who posted rap lyrics on Instagram in Murphy's memory, because they included the n-word.
Chelsea Russell, 19, posted lyrics to a song by the Detroit rapper Snap Dogg (no, not Snoop Dogg) on the bio of her Instagram account to pay tribute to Murphy. The song, "I'm Trippin'," released in 2016, is heavy on killing snitches and waving guns around and it has lots of use of the n-word. It's the type of song that people point to when they say they don't like rap music because it's too violent.
According to the Liverpool Echo, Russell's Instagram account was reported to a constable in a "hate crime unit" who found the lyrics "offensive and upsetting." Russell was charged with sending a grossly offensive message by means of a public electronic communications network.
At Russell's trial, her defense pointed out that Jay-Z had used these similarly offensive words at a music festival in Glastonbury. She had copied the lyrics off a friend's Instagram account—apparently thousands of others were using the lyrics to remember Murphy. Clearly it must have been a favorite song of his.
But the court and the magistrates didn't care. District Judge Jack McGarva said: "There is no place in civil society for language like that. Everyone with an Instagram account could view this content. The lyrics also encourage killing and robbing, so are grossly offensive."
Russell now has to submit to ankle monitoring for eight weeks and pay the equivalent of about $800 in fines.
This is what the enforcement of "hate speech" laws looks like. This woman was prosecuted entirely because a person in a position of power found her repetition of somebody else's song lyrics offensive. She does not stand accused even of using hate speech to actually encourage racial violence against others. People with the power to fine or lock up Russell merely found what she posted too offensive for their ears, and now she's going to pay for it.
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4 comments:
I realize the young lady is a British citizen and I realize that "hate speech" prosecutions have not yet caught on here in America, yet.
As I understand the double standard here in America, an American of African ancestry can use the N-word without repercussions, but an American of European ancestry is not allowed the same privilege. Now I understand why Rap rhymes so well with Crap.
AIB/44
Sadly we will need to see more of these ridiculous convictions so that people see how ludicrous the new 'hate-speech' laws are.
It can join the Nazi-Pug video as examples of what happens when the law goes too far to try to protect sensitive ears and hurt feelings.
The officer who pushed the prosecution forward was in fact ethnic minority. That someone in her position should be offended by mere words says alot about the recruitment of Police in the UK, she was updet and offended by something she read so she has presucuted a young pertson who is white.
Would she be prosecuting a yound black man from south London, lamenting the death of a friend in a knife attack?
I have come to the conclusion that life in Britain is nothing but Faerie Dust and Unicorns, with no real crime to speak of. The murder rate must be zero, the theft rate must be zero, and hooliganism apparently accounts for another 0% of their crime rate. That is the only way I can see the courts having time for this sort of garbage!
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