The Scottish Greens co-leader calls a man a 'bigot' after he shouts abuse at him during a BBC interview.
Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has warned of a rise in homophobia after being verbally abused while on the campaign trail.Mr Harvie was speaking at his party's campaign launch for the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.A spokesperson for the Scottish Greens said the party would report the incident to Police Scotland.The man interrupted Mr Harvie's interview to urge voters not to back his party, before using a homophobic slur.
"Those who have cultivated this nasty kind of culture war against minorities need to take responsibility for verbal abuse like that but also for violence that we've seen rising against LGBT+ people."gender recognition reforms A Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service report released in June found there had been 1,884 hate crime charges based on a person's sexual orientation in 2022-23, an increase of 2% on the previous year. The number of such charges reported has increased every year since 2014-15.
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