Anti-racism protests

Quoted from smokey111

That is one massive coincidence. Watched the first one, just sat watching Equalizer 2.

Ive seen the Equalizer 2.Thats  ok as well.Hope you enjoy it.

Quoted from promotion plaice

What's the world coming to when a twelve year old boy thinks it's acceptable to racially abuse Wilfred Zaha online.

Apparently the kid has now been arrested.

Have his parents been arrested as well? They should be.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Have his parents been arrested as well? They should be.

They won’t be as he’s above the criminal age of responsibility. Whilst I agree with your comment and can see that logic, it won’t happen. I spent ten years working in youth justice establishments, parents rarely received any support, let alone bollockings. No doubt this lad got his racist views from bigoted parents but sadly I’d imagine nothing will be done.

He’ll likely receive a fine and some work around the impact of racism etc.

Quoted from aldi_01

They won’t be as he’s above the criminal age of responsibility. Whilst I agree with your comment and can see that logic, it won’t happen. I spent ten years working in youth justice establishments, parents rarely received any support, let alone bollockings. No doubt this lad got his racist views from bigoted parents but sadly I’d imagine nothing will be done.

He’ll likely receive a fine and some work around the impact of racism etc.

I can understand your viewpoint.  I've worked as well with severely troubled youth and on a wider note it's heartwrenching what some have been through. What Ive found though is healthy input eg   kindness and structure and discipline goes a long way to healing them but it takes time.

Quoted from barralad

Please don't mistake me for a supporter of Blair's stance on the Iraq war. I campaigned hard against the Iraq war and as far as I'm concerned he broke International Law and should be forced to defend his actions in a court of law. To answer your question...No

My point was that it was Tony Blair (Labour Party P.M.) that lied about the number of EU migrants coming into the UK yet you don't seem to acknowledge that but keep referring to Nigel Farage and his comments about EU migrants.

Quoted from Rick12

I can understand your viewpoint.  I've worked as well with severely troubled youth and on a wider note it's heartwrenching what some have been through. What Ive found though is healthy input eg   kindness and structure and discipline goes a long way to healing them but it takes time.

One hundred percent agree, the wider issue we had was we’d smother them with kindness, education, the opportunities to to learn from mistakes and then bang! Off they go back to the same environment with little support. It was so frustrating and with social care and youth justice support varying so much across the country, coupled with increasing rates of deprivation and it’s a recipe for disaster. Sadly, that won’t change, not with Boris and chums in charge.

The whole British values thing is schools was completely misinterpreted and or implemented when there were more significant things to focus on rather than some nonsense pseudo patriotism. Education is the key to stopping this vile excrement but not just telling them it is bad but actually explaining to them how social media works, how to fact check, how to use critical thinking and the like but then, perhaps the government don’t want folk to do that🤔

Food for thought .Post which Ive just seen:

"His is a post from a serving Police Officer. I think he sums things up perfectly:
A career criminal dies whilst being arrested for another crime because a police officer doesn’t know proper arrest procedure.... the world riots!
Everyone changes their social media pictures.
Everyone wears badges in support.
Politicians, actors, footballers and celebrities all scream for justice.
Amazon start selling Blue Lives Murder T shirts.
It gets so extreme the army is called in to quell the unrest.
The cop is charged with murder almost instantly.
A police officer is murdered on duty trying to prevent a burglary by career criminals who laugh and joke throughout the crime and the trial.
Nothing happens.
Silence.
The world carries on regardless.
Even his own country doesn’t care!
Where is your outrage now?
Where are the badges?
The public show of support?
Where are the celebrity voices?
A police officer was flayed alive (skinned alive till he died while his body was being dragged along by a car)doing his job, protecting YOU, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR PROPERTY.
Are you going to riot for his life?
Are you going to protest his right to life?
No you’re not, likely you’ll do nothing at all.
In 8 years, yes 8 years, his murderers will be back out and committing crime. Their victims will start bitching about the police not doing their jobs: "where were you, why weren’t you here sooner, you Police are useless" you’ll shout.
Do you know what the Police will say? No you’re wrong, they’ll apologise for not being quicker and not being there but what I want to know is...
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE NEEDED YOUR SUPPORT, WHERE'S YOUR OUTRAGE NOW?
Get this shared folks, far and wide because I want to know how a country can call justice served when a police officer's murderers are jailed for 16 years, out in 8 just thing about that for a moment, 8 years for killing a Police Officer."

If you are able to ignore what I see as a lot of nonsense in this piece of writing I think there is a legitimate discussion to be had here, I just find it a shame it’s hidden and obscured by divisive comparisons to other cases which I view as comparing apples and oranges.

That said highlighting the inadequacies of our ‘justice’ system with this particular case is perfectly valid. Perhaps, despite the loose connections that can be made to this thread if you’re inclined to do so, the legitimate argument deserves its own. Personally I think What those lads did and how they have conducted themselves since is absolutely deplorable and the sentence they received is not nearly enough.

Quoted from Sandford1981

If you are able to ignore what I see as a lot of nonsense in this piece of writing I think there is a legitimate discussion to be had here, I just find it a shame it’s hidden and obscured by divisive comparisons to other cases which I view as comparing apples and oranges.

That said highlighting the inadequacies of our ‘justice’ system with this particular case is perfectly valid. What those lads did and how they have conducted themselves since is absolutely deplorable and the sentence they received in my opinion not nearly enough.

Soon as we come into this world Sandford its a challenge for all of us albeit for some more than others.Ive always said and I stand by this in the end good always wins.

What a monumental heap of shite from Rick, again. If the person who wrote that is actually a serving police officer they should be removed from duty ASAP.