Police Scotland’s officers will investigate actors and comedians if a complaint is made under new hate crime laws.
Training, obtained by The Herald, states that material regarded as “threatening and abusive” under the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) can be communicated “through public performance of a play.”
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24194006.police-scotland-hate-crime-training-leaked/
Police Scotland have said they will not target performers when new hate crime laws come into force next month.
The laws say hate can be communicated through public performances, online, or by playing videos.
But officers will only respond to complaints and not go looking for offending material, the force have said.
A lawyer said performers and writers “must trust to luck” they are not prosecuted.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act comes into force in Scotland on 1 April.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hate-crimes-police-will-not-target-performers/ar-BB1kb82n
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021