Cops back away from ludicrous overkill investigation of naughty tweet:

Essex Police has dropped its investigation into Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist.

Pearson, an award-winning writer, was being investigated for allegedly stirring up racial hatred with a social media post made in November last year.

Two police officers called at her home at 9.40am on Remembrance Sunday to tell her she was under investigation and invited her to a voluntary interview. She was told, however, that the officers were not allowed to disclose the specific focus of the inquiry.

The officers refused to tell her any details about which post on X, formerly Twitter, was being investigated, or who made the complaint against her.

It’s almost funny, the string of police misconduct after police misconduct, all over one single tweet. Mind you, one single tweet could be a graphic murder threat, but if it had been it probably would have been removed by Twitterex, and police reaction would probably have been swifter and less “no we won’t tell you what tweet.” It’s hard not to suspect that the reason the cops wouldn’t say which tweet is because it would have been so embarrassing. “Er…the one in which you called him a big poopyhead, Madam.”

The Crown Prosecution Service advised that no charges should be brought against Pearson after reviewing the case. Essex Police said it would therefore take no further action and the investigation was now closed.

The scale of the investigation was revealed by The Telegraph, with officers from the Metropolitan Police, Sussex Police and Essex Police all handling the complaint over the past year.

The complaint about one single non-throat-cutty tweet.

While rape has been effectively legalized.