British police tell ‘MAGA’ American cancer patient to apologize for Facebook post, she’s NOT having it

The U.K. police have been accused of bullying a frail pro-Trump American cancer patient who was undergoing chemotherapy over an allegedly offensive post she’d published to Facebook.

The woman, mother of two, Deborah Anderson, recorded her interactions with a Thames Valley Police officer in June.

The recording subsequently went viral this week after the Free Speech Union (FSU) shared it to X:

BREAKING: An American cancer patient and Trump supporter was confronted by British police and told to apologise for her online posts or face an investigation.

Deborah Anderson, a mother of two, was visited at her home in June by an officer from Thames Valley Police. He… pic.twitter.com/CaQZVUScQY

— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) September 17, 2025

From the get-go, Anderson wasn’t having any of the officer’s bull.

“You can come in, but you’d better have a damn good reason for being here,” she initially told him. “I’m a member of the Free Speech Union and I’m an American citizen … I’ll have Elon Musk on you so quickly your feet won’t touch [the floor].”

Once inside, the unnamed officer told her that she’d made a “threatening” Facebook post that was reported to the cops. Without identifying the post in question, the officer then asked her to apologize to the alleged so-called victim.

“My plan was, if you were admitting that it was you who wrote the comment, you could just make an apologize to the person [who complained],” he said.

“I am not apologizing to anybody, I can tell you that,” she promptly replied.

Anderson was then told that if she didn’t apologize for her post, she’d be taken to the police station for an interrogation.

“The alternative would be that I would have to call you in for interview,” the officer said.

She refused, nevertheless, and even lectured the officer that his time would be better spent pursuing investigations into real crimes.

“Are there no houses that have been burgled recently, no rapes, no murders? … Then why aren’t you out there investigating those?” she said.

“This is one of the more extraordinary things we have seen at The Free Speech Union”.

Watch @SpeechUnion’s Director of Case Management @BenBarryJones’s interview with @JuliaHB1 on the shocking case of Deborah Anderson. pic.twitter.com/HMENM7bFzs

— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) September 18, 2025

The good news is that thanks to intervention from the FSU, the case has since been dropped, according to The Times.

“In June, we received a report from a person who felt threatened by comments directed at them online,” the Thames Valley Police said in a statement. “Following engagement with both parties, no arrests were made, and no further action was taken.”

“While people are entitled to express their views, it is the police’s duty to respond to allegations of threatening language and references to violence,” the police added.

Furthermore, outrage over the clip is on the rise.

“Watching this video, it’s as if the police have become schoolteachers, intervening in petty squabbles,” FSU general secretary Lord Young of Acton told The Telegraph. “Since when has it been their job to ask people to apologize?”

“Except instead of threatening you with detention if you don’t, they’re threatening you with arrest. It’s both comical and deeply sinister – carry on 1984,” he added.

‘He was there to extract an apology from her… It’s Carry On 1984!’

Lord Young of the Free Speech Union on the free speech row sparked by the arrival of a police officer at a cancer patient’s house over a social media post. pic.twitter.com/CEFsAwuvZH

— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 18, 2025

During an interview last week with The Sun editor-at-large Harry Cole, Anderson accused the British police of having bullied her.

“People don’t like being bullied, not the British, not the Americans,” she said. “I think that’s what these visits are about, getting us to self-censor. I think it’s a bullying tactic to make us think, oh gee, should I or shouldn’t I?”

“It was the most stupid conversation — like my mother telling me I upset somebody and had to go apologize,” she added.

Yesterday, we posted a video of Deborah Anderson being interviewed by a police officer about a Facebook post. Check out this interview with her by @MrHarryCole. Her answer to his question about what message she has for the British government is superb. pic.twitter.com/sMKzfiomEL

— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) September 19, 2025

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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