A police force has apologised to an animal rights campaigner after a community support officer said a protest group had links to “known terrorists”.
Ali Firth, 49, was filming a small demo outside outside Bramley pet supermarket Dogs 4 Us, when she was told by an officer to stop filming or her camera would be confiscated. A police community support officer told Ms Firth that the protest group “is connected to known terrorists”.
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She asked the officer to elaborate but was told: “No – it would breach data protection.” Ms Firth, a disabilities support worker from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, formally complained about “unprofessional behaviour”.
A West Yorkshire police spokesman said the footage had been viewed and the officers involved had been “advised accordingly”. A company spokesman for Dogs 4 Us said the protesters had shouted “untruths” and were “just a nuisance to society”.
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Why is it always PCSOs? It seems if you give somebody no power of arrest, but a uniform that makes it looks like they have that power they immediatelt turn into a little hitler.
Round here they used to be known as "plastic plod" but the name "plastic hitler" is getting more popular.
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