Why was a Black man on trial for using a raccoon emoji?

From policing to prosecution, this was the British justice system at its most incompetent and culturally confused.

By Nels Abbey

When the young man reached out to me and told me what he was going on trial for, I was in total disbelief. I could not believe such a thing would happen in a free, enlightened and multicultural Western nation. I told myself there just had to be more to it. Alas, there was not: a Black British man was, indeed, in court solely for the ‘crime’…