Eight Months in Jail for Anti-Police T-Shirt
British authorities don't get the whole free speech thing
Thug who wore a t-shirt with "one less pig, perfect justice" scrawled on it just hours after the deaths of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes has been jailed for eight months.
A man who wore a t-shirt with "one less pig, perfect justice" scrawled on it three hours after PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes were murdered has been jailed.
Barry Thew, 39, was sentenced to eight months for his "morally reprehensible actions" shortly after one of the worst police shootings in British history.
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