Arnold Tabbs, on 15 November 2024 - 03:11 PM, said:
Of course I don't support somebody being arrested for a mild rebuke but I'm not naive enough to believe that the police arrested Ms Wilcox just for saying "go home. You are devaluing property."
What I do believe, though, is that there is much cherry picking of stories going on so that zealots can put forward conspiracy theories. There was a story in the paper the other day about a black man - a former policeman - being wrongly accused of shoplifting and banned from every Morrisons in the country. He was said to have behaved aggressively but CCT showed him simply trying to state his innocence.
No mention of that on this forum, but if I were trying to create a false narrative I'd be using this incident to imply that there is deliberate discrimination against black men in supermarkets.
Once again, for the benefit of anybody else determined not to grasp a point if it doesn't fit his or her prejudice. I point out that the Harehills rioters got longer sentences than anybody taking part in the trouble following the Southport murders. If there was really a two-tier anti-British conspiracy the Romanians would have been given less time in prison and the Rotherham and Middlesbrough hooligans more.
In other words, your conspiracy theory is not supported by any evidence here. So the Police released a badly-worded statement? Hardly the News Story if the Century, is it?
Of course it isn't but, you can also argue that it devalues what it actually was. That then, further opens the door for discussion regarding alleged two-tier policing.
Badly worded? Do you think they asked the new apprentice in admin to draft it? This is West Yorkshire police, referring to a major incident as a 'vigil'. Would you be happy if Kemi Badenoch referred to the riots as, a bit of a 'disagreement'? I reckon a few on here would be having seizures!
Your analogy is weak. A lone black guy shoplifting v a community of Romanians rioting; quite a difference. The narrative spun by Yvette Cooper, for instance was, to immediately play it down.
The continued, nationwide, grooming gangs scandal, is also a major incident. Is that a false narrative?
MI5 stating the biggest threat to our safety is radical Islam - is that a false narrative? The only reason MI5 was brought into the discussion was because, a certain poster incorrectly and purposely tried to create the exact thing you are claiming is being done by others - a false narrative, conspiracy theories.
You prefer these major incidents not to be discussed? The point of highlighting the woman from Harehills is, to draw attention to the police devaluing what happened, and to a prominent community leader spending 13 hours in a police cell for allegedly shouting something that the police deemed racially aggravated. This isn't 'cherry picking', it's related to a major incident.
Meanwhile, a couple of hundred Muslim lads camped outside Rochdale police station, shouted far worse, did far worse, and the police did....nothing.
Meanwhile, during the riots, another major incident; we had huge gangs of Muslim lads, brazenly walking around with hammers, knives and machetes, directly in front of the police, and they did.... nothing.
Your opinion seems to be, people who disagree with you shouldn't have an opinion. And if they do, you class it as, cherry picking, creating false narratives and conspiracy theories. Have you learned nothing from the Southport tragedy....