Huntingdon was a lone wolf attack

[WeCouldBeNiceToEachOther]

Confirmed by police about half an hour ago that the 35 year old arrested has been released without charge.

Description of the knife wielding maniac

Another description plus drawing of carriages

Here

Nope, he was arrested "on suspicion" because he matched the initial description of the perpetrator. He would then have been de-arrested once it became clear that he was not involved in the crime.

I for one would rather the police did that than have them be too afraid of a backlash to initially arrest a black man and then release him without charge. The same goes for a white man.

AS we all now know from the child rape scandals around the UK, pussy-footing around like that for PC reasons is not beneficial to overall public safety.

Absolutely this.
What the fuck is the matter with people that they can’t understand this, in the middle of all the chaos urgent decisions have to be made.

Valdo Calocane case in Nottingham comes to mind. But he refused his meds due to needle phobia. We need more secure units, not care in the community imo.

Brit in NZ, and I can confirm that the world is a bit of a shit show at the moment. Everyone is blaming everyone else for the rising cost of (insert here) or the fact that they can't get an appointment, or because of rise of violence. Its the same here and the same in Australia.

We are all reeling from the job/housing/health insecurity that started with the pandemic and has increased through the resurgence of wars/invasions etc hence the rise of the right.

From what I can see from the reports, this was a horrific attack by a desperate man. You can be desparate in any race, and it makes sense that if there was another tall black man then he could have been confused. If the person was a woman, or a short black man they probably wouldn't have been arrested. It is worthy to note that these violent crime does have a pattern, and that is they are committed overwhelming by men. So for all people who want are linking race to violent crime should be linking sex to it instead, imagine the uproar if we said that all men had to be curfewed by 7pm because a few of them couldn't be trusted.

This, is as much surmising as any other post regarding the details of this attack by anyone else on any of these threads. You have no idea what the scene looked like on the arrival of POs. You cannot possibly declare with such certainty that it was the colour of his skin that determined his arrest.

Radicalised into what ?

I recall he was obsessed with extreme violence. That's what was said in his trial.

Radicalised into what ?

I recall he was obsessed with extreme violence. That's what was said in his trial.

So for all people who want are linking race to violent crime should be linking sex to it instead, imagine the uproar if we said that all men had to be curfewed by 7pm because a few of them couldn't be trusted

We know that men commit 90%+ of murders. And we talk a lot about that (although we should do more—I think murderers should be locked away for life, at minimum).

But when we say (in America) that 55% of murders are committed by black people, despite being only 13% of the population, suddenly you don’t want to talk about it anymore.

Why is that?

I just read that the person incorrectly arrested was also tasered. While shouting to the police that it wasn’t him.

Yes, it came to my mind too. I don’t know what the answer is because the mental health system has just been completely failed.

It’s okay for the police in these circumstances to do whatever they can to secure the location.

I am sure the person involved will understand it was an extreme emergency. Many lives have been saved, due to the speed of response.

If I was caught up in something like this I would understand if I had the same profile as the perpetrator who was busy trying to kill people!!

He will be fine, that is why tasers are so effective (rather than using firearms)

Unlike some of victims I might add!

No, I won’t apologise for calling out the blatant and disgusting racism we saw on Friday night and all throughout yesterday. If you find that to be an upsetting allegation, I would look closer at what was said.

You haven’t quoted any of the racism that you’ve accused EasternStandard of writing. You should apologise for that.

You provided no evidence of EasternStandard being racist. You seem to have a personal vendetta against her. How is that in any way acceptable?

I cannot quote posts from a previous thread. There were plenty. How is it acceptable for posters to be blatantly racist and then not apologise when it becomes clear they got it wrong?

Copy and paste.

How would you want people to react if I accused you of racism on another thread but then refused to give any examples?

EasternStandard wasn’t racist on any other thread that I saw. And of course you can quote posts from previous threads - you go onto them and copy and past or produce a screen shot and then add as an attachment to your post in this thread.

But, she was. As were multiple other posters who now appear the be incredibly quiet now they’ve been proven wrong.

Yes you can as @Boohoo76says. I think you should apologise for the baseless accusation.

PROVE IT.

You could WeCouldBeNice, you could if they really were that bad, you would remember every word.

If you want a TAAT about the hate filled racists plaguing Mumsnet why don't you start another one?

More fun to overrun every single chat about absolutely every fucking subject with shouts of racism?

Don't you understand that the victims are 1,000,000 more times important than this timewasting agenda of yours, yet not one word can you spend for them.