MP Seeks Answers on Arrest of Autistic Girl That Went Viral on Social Media

The mother said her autistic teenage daughter was arrested for saying a female officer "looked like her nanna who is a lesbian.”
MP Seeks Answers on Arrest of Autistic Girl That Went Viral on Social Media
A police officer using a radio in the UK on Nov. 2, 2011. David Cheskin/PA Media
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An MP has raised concerns after an autistic teenager was arrested after she said an officer “looked like her nanna who is a lesbian.”

A video uploaded to TikTok by her mother, now deleted, and widely shared on Twitter showed the girl, 16, being detained by seven officers outside her home in Leeds in the north of England in the early hours of Monday, Aug. 7.
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