West Midlands Police refuses to apologise for history of LGBTQ+ “witch hunts”
West Midlands Police has “politely declined” calls to apologise for its prior homophobic treatment of LGBTQ+ people. Peter Tatchell, one of the UK’s most prominent human rights activists, demanded that the force to make amends for “its past homophobic witch hunts” as part of the #ApologiseNow campaign being launched on 7 June by the Peter Tatchell Foundation and Baroness Helena Kennedy KC. He accused the force, which is the country’s second largest, of being “one of the most homophobic in Britain” for going “out of its way to target consenting,…
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