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The story needlessly confuses the issue of the wrong IP address with the fact that his actual internet account was owned by his partner. The two have nothing to do with each other.

The real IP the police were after belonged to someone else living in a different house.

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I believe he accused them of racism and sexism since he was raided by the police for being a suspected pedophile whereas his white female partner was not even investigated as a potential criminal.

I don't think there is any evidence of it being racist. It juts seems more like incompetence to me.

Him being male would probably be more relevant, but it's far more likely for men to commit this crime either way, so it's not reasonable to suspect him more highly.

Him being black would probably be more relevant, but it's far more likely for black people to commit this crime either way, so it's not reasonable to suspect him more highly.

This is why it's wrong to just blindly rely on statistics to tell you who to arrest. Prejudice has no place in law enforcement.

regardless it was a swing and a miss in that court system, dismissed oh well

Wrong IP address, wrong IP address resolved to the woman's account.

Arrested the man who worked with teenagers. WOAH SMOKING GUN RAID ALL THE THINGS

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