A police chief has called for a change in the law in the UK after comedy writer Graham Linehan was arrested by cops over his supposedly “anti-trans” social media posts.

The law on “inciting violence” on social media must be “changed or clarified,” the head of the UK’s biggest police force said, following the arrest of Linehan, 57, at London Heathrow Airport on Monday.

“I don’t believe we should be policing toxic culture wars debates and officers are currently in an impossible position,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said in a statement on Wednesday, defending his officers’ actions

Officers “had reasonable grounds to believe an offence had been committed,” Rowley said, while admitting that police in the United Kingdom had “been left between a rock and a hard place” w

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