The police have deemed it actionable, and the CPS will decide whether it meets a bar to bring charges. People can form their own views over the case but I would not personally want to water down laws relating to incitement to violence because of a single incident, especially at this moment.
Yes. That's the point of harassment. Being arrested and kept in a cell for hours is bad enough even if no charge is brought. The people who make the complaints know this.
Linehan is someone who made harassment his full time work; it's only surprising that it took this long for him to finally get told to stop it
He's a very angry man, understandably and he really should calm down and stop picking fights. That does not mean it's ok to persecute him with vexatious complaints.
But it's ok for him to make vexatious complaints against every trans person in Britain, of course?
Right, and I think the police feel they are the right people to make the determination about what constitutes incitement based on e.g. a pattern of behaviour. It’s for them to judge if there’s merit to the complaint. They don’t arrest everyone who gets complained about.