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Man arrested over ‘Manchester Arena bomber’ Halloween costume (www.independent.co.uk)
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A man has been arrested after complaints about somebody appearing on social media wearing a Halloween costume depicting Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi.

Abedi killed 22 people as well as himself when he detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the arena in May 2017.

Pictures of a man wearing an Arabic-style headdress, with the slogan “I love Ariana Grande” on his T-shirt, and carrying a rucksack with “Boom” and “TNT” written on the front, caused fury when they were posted earlier this week.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From the article:

“The man was arrested on 1 November on suspicion of a number of offences including using a public communication network to send offensive messages.

Should this be a law? Probably because people are dicks.

Should this guy be arrested using this law? I suppose it's different from charging them (and securing a conviction) and gives them time to investigate but this was a very traumatic incident (my uncle lives in Manchester and it had a big impact on him) so making a joke about it is offensive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get that it's offensive, I truly do, but I don't think people should be arrested just for being offensive. If he was threatening to do something similar or something like that, then that's different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a difficult one for the police - sending offensive communications is an offence, and this counts as one, so they are duty-bound to investigate it. As unpleasant as it is, I hope it goes no further.