Negative portrayal on TV and discrimination

This is entirely my opinion and I haven't seen it and I'm not likely to but I think for me it feels like it depends on how it was presented. If it was a passive description of mental health, something like "Robert Napper who has Asperger's syndrome and a history of depression..." then I wouldn't say it was particularly discriminatory given that crimes like murder do usually need to take mental states into account. Similarly to if someone had commented on a race-related crime mentioning race suddenly is relevant. 

However, If they used it to try and insinuate it was a major contributing factor in why the murder was committed, something like "Robert Napper who committed the murder was taken into custody, it was later discovered under investigation he had Asperger's syndrome" Then yes I would say its unnecessary discrimination verging on outgroup fear-mongering. Saying it this way suggests people with Asperger's syndrome commit more murders and would be damaging in the same way it would be for any minority.

The police and the media can gruesomely distort the truth. Checkout the first person accused of the murder. ... Colin Stagg who the police worked on with a honeytrap. a female police officer saying she would love to be raped at knife point

Yeah, I agree, I used to run a members club that was the local unofficial police bar and id be working there getting on with things while all the older officers who had been in the force since the 70's would be bragging about the horrid things they did to people. Most notably as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I used to get pretty upset about the stories of baiting gay people (usually men) then beating them up, etc before arresting them. They were proud of these things, these men would then be intentionally outed to the community to "make sure they don't do it again" 

Regarding the media though the main issue is you just don't seem much positive representation of autism so as a result, a negative reference like this one ends up with a weight entirely out of proportion with the actual figure. It's not really the fault of this one show, it's the fault of the media as a whole. This is why negative propaganda tends to stick to minorities, if the only time you ever hear about a minority is when your preferred newspaper or online media is talking about a horrible crime you're going to make a connection between that minority and the crime that's hard to shift in anyone that doesn't already have examples to out weight it.

Yeah, I agree, I used to run a members club that was the local unofficial police bar and id be working there getting on with things while all the older officers who had been in the force since the 70's would be bragging about the horrid things they did to people. Most notably as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I used to get pretty upset about the stories of baiting gay people (usually men) then beating them up, etc before arresting them. They were proud of these things, these men would then be intentionally outed to the community to "make sure they don't do it again" 

Regarding the media though the main issue is you just don't seem much positive representation of autism so as a result, a negative reference like this one ends up with a weight entirely out of proportion with the actual figure. It's not really the fault of this one show, it's the fault of the media as a whole. This is why negative propaganda tends to stick to minorities, if the only time you ever hear about a minority is when your preferred newspaper or online media is talking about a horrible crime you're going to make a connection between that minority and the crime that's hard to shift in anyone that doesn't already have examples to out weight it.