RLC Media Release: Offensive language arrest found to be unlawful; court rules that police provoked student with “unjustified interference with civil liberties”

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On 20 November 2017 the District Court held that an arrest for the statement “none of your fucking business” was unlawful, because the police failed to consider any alternatives to arrest.

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