Huntingdon was a lone wolf attack

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

EasternStandard is NOT one of those posters. You keep attributing other people’s posts to her. Why?

But my god.

They believed it could have been a terror attack (fine, it makes sense in the moment). As soon as it became clear it wasn’t, they rescinded it. Why do you not seem to accept that it’s now become clear to the police it wasn’t a terror attack?

She is literally doing it right now.

In the last few days a child has ended up in hospital because of a firework attack at an asylum hotel.

Yet we should apparently just let this sort of behaviour go unchallenged.

Yes declaring Plato triggers a coordinated, multi-agency response from police, fire, and ambulance services.

But the police rescinded Plato after the suspect was arrested on Saturday night.

Where has anyone disagreed with the police getting help from police, fire and ambulance services? The first priority should be people’s safety and wellbeing.

Plenty jumped on the racist bandwagon, including comments about x ch migrants, how other countries have stopped the boats ie Australia, this usually led by one or two regular posters

He wasn't an asylum seeker, was even an immigrant & the authorities never hinted at either, so why were these separate issues bought up? they were irrelevant.
But even after we knew it was no terrorist attack, many couldn't or wouldn't accept this, despite the fact we know of many incidents were MH failing have led to innocent people dying.

Posters who made these Islamist/Asylum seeker/boats allegations have not once come back and said they were wrong, not one.

An eye witness has said she pleaded for her life and he replied with "the devil doesn't win today" or words to that effect.

The mask slipped for many posters yesterday & perhaps for the country at large.

That’s it? That I think people would be angry if there was a terrorist attack. And the wrong attribution of wanting people to speak up.

Do you think people wouldn’t be angry?

I’m quoting thedevil who said ‘Islamic terror’, in that chain of posts.

Which were the multiple hallmarks?

Is this not a little over the top? Really melodramatic at this point. The guy has been let go. It was an unfortunate and understandable error. The police are doing their best in challenging circumstances. The handwringing here is incredible.

I think it’s okay to have sympathy for a guy who was also a victim of the attack (he must have been very close to the attacker, so he saw it first hand), who then went through the very traumatic experience of being tasered and arrested for a crime he didn’t commit.

We know that making assumptions about attacks is dangerous, as what happened in Southport.

The thread descended into people demanding Muslims come forward and renounce the attack.

People need to be responsible and wait for the facts.

Are there people who think that terrorism equals Muslims? Is that the problem? You know any group can commit terrorism. Those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s know that very well.

Yes horrible for him. But hopefully he's a reasonable sort of person and will look at it from the positive perspective he's alive and not in hospital, unlike others.

Maybe when you’ve been tasered you’ll feel differently.

He needs to sue and get compensation.

I’d agree with your last point and disagree with you that women are as violent as men when in the throws of mental health episode. Stop focusing on the poor little violent man and all the baddy people scared of these poor little violent men and focus on the poor literally blood stained victims and their families. Honestly it’s your ilk that will get Farage in. Enough already.

@nomasThe choice of weapon and the manner in which it was wielded, the location and the target.

Seriously just stop hypothesizing for him, it’s cringeworthy.

Police make the assumption. Operation Plato. You agree with that procedure.

What a lovely post.

I don’t think it’s unfair to say that the failing mental health system in this country has a lot to answer for. For both men and women.

If he tried he is unlikely to win. The compensation culture won't stretch to reasonable police actions in these particular circumstances.

There were 22,000 knife attacks last year. What made this one Islamic terror in your eyes? How did he wield the knife?

Jesus fucking Christ I don’t know what isn’t actually clicking for you here.

The police made a snap second judgment which they then rescinded. They did what they had to do to stop the attack. That’s fine.

What isn’t fine is then continuing to insist that it must be terrorism and it can’t be anything else, and continuing to invoke islamophobic tropes to make your point, when even the police have moved on from that theory!

Of course it’s acceptable to have sympathy for this person. Did you also post about the Jewish man who was accidently shot dead by the police in the recent Synagogue attack?

So you don’t want him to get compensation? I can just imagine you speaking to him: ‘Be a reasonable sort of person, look at the positives, you’re alive and not in hospital, now pop along, don’t make a fuss.’

You’d be singing a different tune if it was your husband who was tasered.

Gosh you’ve got sympathy for all the people aside from the victims haven’t you? Multiple people ring the police and give the description of the perpetrator and guess what, the police will grab in all those who fit the description. If he was a white male with brown hair and a goatee beard they’d be grabbing those men if they were there, and bringing them in for questioning. The police were absolute heroes on the night and thank god the driver made the unscheduled stop to allow it to be efficiently handled or we’d have far more casualties.