Do not expect us to release every suspect’s ethnicity, say police
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/27/do-not-expect-us-to-release-every-suspects-ethnicity-say-po/
Posted by Blandinio
Do not expect us to release every suspect’s ethnicity, say police
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/27/do-not-expect-us-to-release-every-suspects-ethnicity-say-po/
Posted by Blandinio
8 Comments
They only released it this time to stop people immediately blaming immigrants and start trying to burn them alive in hotels.
If you behave like morons then you’ll be treated like morons.
Im sorry, but its too late now.
Anything other than the suspect ethnicity being released within hours of a event will now be seen as a cover up OR proof that the perpetrator is a brown/black/Muslim/asylum seeker (delete as needed). Any clamping down on misinformation being spread will be seen as proof of a cover up.
I 100% get why they had to in this case but they have now made a bed they have to lay in. I support them but i don’t envy them.
We need repurcussions in the form of laws that hold people accountable for spreading misinformation.
If politicians and media executives faced prison time for not telling the truth we’d soon see our political structure change.
Good. Releasing the ethnicity of suspects should not become the norm. Becsuse the next time a suspect IS a non-white immigrant it will be taken as a green light by the far right to go on the rampage. It also gives a kind of official backing to the idea that the ethnicity is relevant.
The only reason Farage, Robinson etc want the ethnicity of suspects released early is so they know which tragedies to jump on while the iron is hot.
This is just going to add fuel to speculation any time they don’t say who it is now though, as we know they can tell us, and if they don’t there must be a reason they don’t want to.
As we now know, if it’s a “White man from Britain”, we find out straight away… so if they don’t tell us, what? We start taking bets, a “Brown man from Pakistan”?
Unfortunately not releasing it will be interpreted as “not white” by the people wishing to fan flames
It was fairly obvious they only released the information so quickly *because* he was white. They’ve set a precedent now and can’t win no matter what they do.
It genuinely doesn’t matter. Making it known that the guy was British and white defused things before they could get out of hand. Next time, the knuckle draggers are going to jump to the same dim conclusions before the details are known, with or without this example. Releasing the details averted these fuckos from going on another murderous rampage today. Everything gained, nothing lost.