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.

He might have been released an hour later. We don’t know. I’m a brown haired medium build white woman in my 50s. If a crime was committed by a brown haired medium build white women in her 50s and I was there, I wouldn’t have a problem with being arrested. It would be inconvenient but I would understand the rationale behind it.

And you’ve missed her point

Bloody Hell

We don't know the exact circumstances.

The fact that the police are routinely and horribly racist makes their job more difficult where there is a good reason to detain or search a non-white person. If they thought there was any chance at all he was involved in the attack, it would have been insane not to arrest him. Just imagine he jumped on a train a few hours later and did the same thing.

I mean if the description was a black man in his 30s they aren't exactly going to arrest a Scandinavian are they..

thank goodness he wasn't named.

An awful and horrific job, the police were doing their job questioning those who seemed to be involved.

The victims and families of those stabbed. My sympathy is with them. That’s it.

Why would he have been released an hour later when the new conference was at 11 am today.

He matched the description given to the police. If the description was 2 white men then white men would be arrested. In all.the confusion of several people being seriously injured, the police didn't have time to stand scratching their heads,they followed the intelligence.
The man was very quickly exonerated from any involvement and no names would actually be published until charges were brought

Presumably they had tasered someone they thought was the attacker, but didn’t know for sure if he was the only one. What if they tasered the wrong person, and the true perpetrator got away?

[Oh! My comment refers to the deleted post above. I must have posted as the deletion happened]

Tempted to report this but better for people to see your awful views.

It’s no surprise this is happening tbh. I reckon we have many more of these to come due to lockdown and lack of MH service during Covid.

Well, this makes a lot more sense. Farage must be fuming.

100%. He was suspected of a crime and this has now been investigated and he has been proven not to be involved so has been released. No questions to answer. I’d rather them err on the side of caution than let potentially very dangerous people go free in case they are offended by being arrested. The safety of the public is more important.

Would I be thrilled if it happened to me or my family member, probably not. But given the seriousness of the event, I’m pretty sure I’d understand.

The emergency services responded heroically in a very short space of time. I for one won’t be pulling them apart online because I wasn’t there to judge.

Why do we make a distinction about "terror" attacks? If somebody goes on a murderous spree, that's terror, regardless of any cause they may feel they have.

such a terrify ordeal for those involved, particularly near to halloween as some thought it was initially halloween

I haven’t seen any other threads or if I did I didn’t feel urge to comment. Sorry about that.

If he had been released an hour later would the police not have mentioned that this morning when they were describing who had been arrested?

They have no capacity to feel shame.

Personally I’d rather be wrongly arrested (and released) than stabbed on a train.

Haven’t you heard? Seems we’re still sick of experts. Kev down the pub is clearly far more on top of the situation than, you know, actual professionals.

Because terrorism is a very specific crime that needs to be policed in a very specific way.

I agree with this.

whilst it would be scary & awful to be arrested for something you haven't done. Arresting someone who fits the description is good policing, not bad

if the description was white, short, apple shaped middle aged woman & I was arrested, it would be upsetting, but understandable. It's no different when he fit the description.