if kent police did make a request directly to the company for that data and information as part of theirto stop you giving it to them? no, but they would have to go through the process. it is a uk—us governmentally agreed process. so what would be the consequence of snap responding directly to a request from the uk police in this regard? i don't know. there would — potentially we would be a breach of our obligations under us law. stephen collins said it was a very distressing case. we obviously take this opportunity to extend our sympathies to the family. as a parent, i cannot imagine, to be fair, what they are going through. and we have done, i think, what we could on the legal side, also on the trust and safety side. it is important that you know that we have been in direct touch with the family and we have helped them understand how they can report to us, to have us block accounts that are harassing them. that if they report through the app, we can preserve that data for police investigation. also through the process, if the police ask us to preserve data whilst they go through the pr

your promotion, and it was a huge thing to be the first county director of a police force in the uk, chief constable of kent metropolitan police at an extraordinarily sensitive time, after the totemic murder of the young black man stephen lawrence, a teenager, who was stabbed to death by a group of white youths in south london in 1993. the fallout from that lasted for many years and it raised deeply disturbing questions about the failings of the police to properly investigate the murder. you were inside the met. were you aware, yourself, of how the police were failing? yes, i was. yes, and that — i actually wrote an article whenjudge macpherson had talked about the police being institutionally racist... which was the key moment, after all the failings of the police that a senior official was appointed to investigate and his report, the so—called macpherson report, referred to the institutional racism inside the metropolitan police. you, as one of the senior black officers inside the metropolitan police at the time, you must have felt very conflicted. i was very conflicted but i was very keen that the force,

own daughter came to police with tales of what went on off=camera.nat hi megan nineteen=year=old megan hobson said her mother was abusing her seven adopted brothers and sisters. volkmer/pinal county attorney> "as a prosecutor, as a member of this family, the allegations described were horrifying."the children reportedly told police that machelle hobson pepper=sprayed them in the face and genitals when they failed to recall their lines or follow direction ...... that she beat them with belts and clothes hangersand that she locked them in a closet for hours without any food, water or bathroom access "they're heroes because if they had not come forward, this would most likely to continue to occur. probably it would have progressed. "hobson and her two adult sons were arrested two weeks ago ... the men, charged with failing to report the abuse, were released on their own recognizance,their mother is being held on 200=thousand dollars bail.in court today, hobson's lawyer said her bank account had been frozen and she had no income. (vicki) hobson will be back on court may 11 for a pre-trial hearing. that hearing will also addres