Teach Dog to Nazi Salute - Hate Crime

Man who taught pet pug to give Nazi salutes and posted footage on Youtube found guilty of a hate crime

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8265301.html

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A man who taught his girlfriend's pet pug to give Nazi salutes and then posted the footage on YouTube, has been found guilty of a hate crime. Mark Meechan, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, will be sentenced in April after a Scottish court found him guilty of communicating a "grossly offensive" video. The 30-year-old taught his girlfriend's pug to react to the words "gas the Jews", which he repeated 23 times in the short video that he uploaded to his YouTube channel last year.

People got offended; no surprise there.

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He found Meechan guilty of sending by "means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".

I hesitate to watch youtube videos at work which are deemed offensive (by youtube) so I have to ask if anyone else has seen it.

While I presume hearing a person chant "gas the jews" is offensive, I can't really see how a little dog responding to it with a salute is going to be actually threatening.

Ranb

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