It's now the Sarah Everard thing that's the big panic-inducing headline.
It's now the Sarah Everard thing that's the big panic-inducing headline.
RIP and condolences to the family.
It might be so high profile because they arrested one of their own. Then there has been a mysterious head injury whilst in custody and now an investigation into a potential crime he committed a couple of weeks ago. It's bad enough without it being the very people you expect to protect you and then bad smells arise about handling.
This happens when someone goes missing and is later found murdered especially when it's women or children. And now the media are so widespread the resultant debate it raises will be raised along with it.
Maybe it's better we react with shock than a meh? It will make us think. It will make public servants work harder to stop it when they have to appease the public.
There is always the fringe overreaction stuff found in some opinion pieces that see everyone as guilty and apply generalisations but that's just discussion down the pub on a larger scale. They just want to sell papers, increase profile, etc. But the work by charities to lobby for change is what matters.
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Yes, you're right, Terry.
Had Sarah Everard been Black the BLM protesters would have been back out en masse throughout the whole country (and possibly even worldwide), or could there soon be a WLM (Women's Lives Matter) movement suddenly spring up?
It's also a recurrence of the stereotyping and demonisation of men in general and even the OTT calls from a group on social media to ban all lone men from the streets after dark, just like all the relentless stereotyping and demonisation of all teenagers of both male and female and the ill-fated ASBOs thing.
I'm also dreading the day when a person with ASD commits a high profile murder and every person with the condition inadvertently gets tarred with the same brush and labelled a nutjob, and all should be locked up.
Plus of course The Scum, Daily Fail, etc would no doubt be gleefully having field days over it!!
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I just hope that last night's clash between police officers and protesters at Clapham Common won't result in 'copycat' incidents across the rest of the country, where baying mobs who are simply out for a scrap start attacking the police willy-nilly.
There's already baying mobs gathering outside Scotland Yard in central London.
Hope it's not gonna be August 2011 all over again?
Now the headlines are mostly about the shunning of the Oxford AZ vaccine in the EU and the blood clot scares, but there are already threads on here dedicated to this in the Covid sub-section, so no point in elaborating in this particular thread.
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The stuff about both dog-napping and the Sarah Everard case seems to have virtually vanished from the UK headlines ATM.
Today it's been about an anti-lockdown protest in central London.
Honestly what's the point, as restrictions are steadily being eased over the coming weeks.
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