"Stokes has been charged for a remark he made which was abusive and/or insulting and/or improper.
Before the meeting, Stuart Herrington, one of the three veteran interrogators, had prepared a list of seventeen effective techniques, none of which were abusive.
7. Be honest: The only time to be honest with your best friend is when her husband is treating her in ways which are abusive and reprehensible.
"Thanks in large part to the courage and tenacity of these women in bringing these matters to light it has become apparent that some officers, acting undercover while seeking to infiltrate protest groups, entered into long-term intimate sexual relationships with women which were abusive, deceitful, manipulative, and wrong," Met Police Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said.
For example, the British Public Order Act stipulates that "a person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if (a) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or (b) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby".
Section 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act says a person "is guilty of an offence if he (a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby".
For instance, some commenters are now using ASCII text to leave picture comments, which isn't abusive as much as it is disruptive – it's probably not the "high quality" feedback Google had in mind when making this change.
The Act states that "A person is guilty of an offence if he...displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress".
In clinical literature, codependency is said to develop from a person's childhood attempts to adapt to dysfunctional family life e.g., life in which parenting is abusive, neglectful, inconsistent, or otherwise seriously ineffective.
"I think the manner of their exit was characteristic of their entire tenure in the Central African Republic, which is that they were abusive and their use of lethal force was consistently indiscriminate".
