# @pinknews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMP5-S6MBHB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32964605-pinknews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-18T12:06:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

A chief constable in the north of England “breached impartiality” for allowing a police force to march with the Pride progress flag, a judge has ruled.

A judicial review challenge was brought forward by lesbian woman Lindsey Smith, who said she opposed officers from Northumbria Police “associating with messaging which was supportive of the cause of gender ideology”, as reported by The Times.

The Progress Pride flag contains symbols representing gay, trans, and intersex communities, as well as queer people of colour.

In her challenge, Smith said a police van draped in Pride progress colours at a Pride event was “indicative of support for the cause of gender ideology” and officers being involved in the parade constituted “messaging which was supportive of the cause of gender ideology, including in the form of placards, chanting, imagery or flags”.

Mr Justice Linden said in his ruling at the High Court in Leeds that chief constable Vanessa Jardine’s decision to allow officers to engage with the Pride event was “contrary to the uniformed officers’ duties of impartiality” and her “own duty of impartiality, to participate in the 2024 march in the way that they did”.

#police #pridemarch #prideflag #northumbriapolice #pridemonth #lgbtqia

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