Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man.
But it is a bad sign of where our country of at.
Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
But it is a bad sign of where our country of at.
Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
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Cost me a £1.
Along with the Mail, Express and too often the BBC, those on the British right have made the country divided, disillusioned and desperate to blame others for the chaos and cost of their corruption & incompetence.
The people moaning most loudly about the Police releasing that detail are the reason the Police had to.
Then the actual motives for the attack or reasons (possible seizure, heart attack, stroke) it happened
The race/ethnicity/nationality of the perpetrator should be the least concern.
Dal Babu, former Chief Superintendent at the MetPolice,: “think [releasing the suspect's ethnicity] was to dampen down some of the speculation from the far right, that continues on X even as we speak, that this was a Muslim extremist,"
X contributing to extremism?
Block X
Include Muskrat's cars as well
I'm white..I'm British....and a man
I'm sorry ...I didn't pick up on the perpetrator description...
Should I have done? Like you?
(I'm not criticising you)
My immediate reaction was one of sorrow for the Liverpool suporters casualties
Don’t pretend the media isn’t complicit in this after years of giving the likes of Farage a platform far in excess of the actual support he has.
I remember the 2009 incident in Apeldoorn.
A happy day marred by a rogue.
His apparent confusion over the polie releasing too much information about Nicola Bulley. What a strange position for him to take.
#r4today
Now, should an incident ever happen, which isn't a white person. What will the Police say? The absence of reference to a white person immediately means foreigner.
It shouldn't have to be said, but it's almost got to the point where the wrong sort make it sound like there's no white British crime at all.
Sometimes you have to do the right thing no matter what Farage, Badenoch & extremists on social media say!
Police shit themselves. Not good
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/afghan-man-arrested-after-deadly-knife-attack-in-german-park
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65893694.amp
And certain people want to believe in his simple solutions to the misguided fears he creates
But it’s also just a bad sign in general. If he had been nonwhite, what would have been justified next? #r4today
But Muslims, brown & black people, immigrants & asylum seekers would have real cause to fear for their safety if the Liverpool guy had been nonwhite.
What does that say about us?
#r4today
#r4today
Not much at all about the victims, the security failures, anything that is meaningful or might help keep us safe.
This is horrifying. Our debate about crime MUST NOT be allowed to be about ethnicity #r4today
Or recently released from prison.
Or a history of mania & delusions.
All of this feeds into extant prejudice.
A form of terror in itself.
Recovery of those harmed far more important.
It’s always about the far right, white first agenda. The media has to tread a fine line, but it isn’t difficult to navigate.
Home sec: horrified
PM: awful scenes
Not a single idea of how to deal with it.
We should ban cars from urban spaces when there are massive crowds expected. Or maybe always.
I believe you are right, as its generally specific areas that are used for parades and the like in city centres, they should be bollarded, businesses warned
Streets shouldn't be accessible by any car, emergency access only. This shouldn't have happened.
To be fair, the Politico-Media Environment has been like this for a while. Where the main broadcasters set their news agenda, on whatever leads on the front page of the Daily Mail.
Lest we forget: 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!'.
So when they're told 'how it is' by racists, they just follow along.
They find their group so to speak and that's that, not capable from that point of seeing anything else.
Except police have always reported ethnicity when the perpetrator has been a poc
Generally no one has objected
Ghouls
Not saying that I think the police should have done this btw - just enjoying the thought of how it might have played out
No marches against white, 53 yr male.
Well done Merseyside police for nipping this in the bud 👏👏👏
Depressing that this was felt necessary.
next time he might be a mixed race Nazi and because they don't state he is ' white ' the racists will brick mosques again.
But yeah a vacuum would now be even worse.
Was enough planning carried out by the council and/or Merseyside police? 🤷♂️
If driving a car into people isn't terrorism, I don't know what is.
I know they mean 'part of a bigger organization or cause', but I bet even that is quite a narrow, specific thing...
colour card which determines whether its terrorism or not based on shade of pink/ brown.
Social media can't handle absence of facts, it will invent them, and the lies of the malicious will get a life of their own.
The fact that the details were released says everything anyone needs to know about UK today.
If they hadn’t Farage’s Sturmtroopers would be trying to burn down hotels with brown skinned folk in them
A house divided against itself cannot stand 😕
I am glad they reported the perpetrator is white it means Laurence Fox and Joey Barton cant use it to put black and brown people in danger.
Racists: “We demand immediate racial profiling of suspects.”
*someone agrees exactly as they demand*
Racists: “OMG, they racially profiled a white guy! Anti-white discrimination! It’s an outrage!”
You can’t win at their game
This stuff doesn’t stop racists twisting crime stories, but it does normalise their talking points
Sadly wherever an incident similar to this occurs
the first thing that comes to mind is what’s the ethnicity of the perpetrator,
its what first crosses my mind and I abhor racism,
It’s just the state of the world we now live in .