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Neeson was judged not to have met the threshold for inciting violence despite describing in detail how he planned and attempted to carry out a racially motivated attack. In my opinion that's a more specific incitement to violence than the Linehan tweet because it is specific and credible.
Yes, he throw in a few comments about how he regrets it and won't do it again but we're talking about the contents of a statement as opposed to the context.* I'm not convinced either situations should be considered incitement to violence but the Neeson one seems closer to satisfying the criteria for police intervention.
*The law would consider the statements in isolation, like I can't go on a misogynistic/homophobic/racist rant and then add "just kidding" at the end to escape any repercussions.
It wasn't really framed as a learning experience when he intially brought it up. For some reason he thought it would be an appropriate story to tell to sell his "hard man" credentials as promo for an upcoming action movie role.