Katie Hopkins has criticised people who “dial the cop shop every time we feel offended online” after she was reported to police over her Twitter outburst about the Scottish nurse who is battling Ebola.
The controversial TV personality insisted “the freedom to say only things that are polite is no real freedom of speech at all”, in her Sun newspaper column.
Katie was berated online after her tweets.
Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. Scottish NHS sucks. http://t.co/EZpO0UTYHx
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) December 30, 2014
Police Scotland confirmed they were looking into complaints they had received, but no report had been submitted to the Crown Office prior to the start of the New Year public holiday.
Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) December 30, 2014
Writing in the English edition of the Sun, Katie said: “I have always maintained the Boys in Blue have far better things to do than police Twitter. But instead of argument, reasoned debate, discussion or avoidance, we now dial the cop shop every time we feel offended online.
“Since when did telling teacher ever solve an argument in the playground?
“The freedom to say only things that are polite is no real freedom of speech at all.”
Katie’s column does not appear in the Scottish Sun.
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