Overview

• Officers say they are investigating an alleged malicious communications offense after a complaint that indecent messages were sent from a fake profile.
• Police visited a Walsall home on September 13 to speak with a teenage suspect and explained they needed to recover her phone as potential evidence.
• The teenager attended a station the next day for a voluntary interview, and the case remains under active investigation with no charges announced.
• West Midlands Police report reviewing a 10-minute body-worn video of the visit and say online clips edited to 1:26 wrongly suggest action over merely viewing a post.
• The video amassed millions of views and drew political commentary, while some legal observers questioned police procedure as reported by Newsweek.