Belgast last night - horrific attack - why is this not being reported on BBC/Sky etc?

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Absolutely shocking details of the injuries inflicted - the BBC minimise it.
https://x.com/paultreyvaud/status/2064244770742956256?s=46

Genuine actual asylum seekers will most likely have been traumatised and genuine trauma is more likely to lead to serious MH conditions. Living round violence and seeing it as more normal means it could be more likely to play out. Just like children who see domestic violence are affected. They see it as normal which is why the children who witness Dv are more likely to end up in a Dv situation.

This behaviour is shocking what isn’t shocking is being surprised that a small percentage of people, that have escaped war zones will have behaviours that have made them seriously mentally ill.

Power. Influence. Money.

I wonder how many of these men are actually soldiers or members of violent militia groups? I bet many have killed many innocent people. I am not sure we want these here.

Why should it though? What makes this stabbing more newsworthy than the multiple stabbings taking place on a daily basis

It's not about civil unrest it's about not wanting to bring up children in a world that has become desensitized to this stuff.
A beheading in the streets !! You wouldn't find that happening when my grandparents were growing up

People are sick of it now, every other week there's a stabbing being reported

I do agree that we have an issue with people recording everything.

However, after viewing the video I wouldn’t have put myself in the way of what was clearly a deranged savage and a horrific scene. I freely admit I wouldn’t be brave enough to risk my life and to leave my family behind as most probably wouldn’t either. It also protects the men who stepped in and fought the attacker off from any claims they acted inappropriately.

So in some ways, at least the victim has evidentiary support for the courts to put this horrific demon away.

It's not the 'gory details' that the BBC omit. Their news output is tailored to fit their agenda. They moved on very quickly from Henry Nowak, hoping that everyone will forget about him as quickly as they have.

FWIW, I'm in the USA and this has made news here. It isn't described as "just" a stabbing but more like a possible attempted beheading. It's an evolving story, though - you can speculate freely as a private citizen hindered only by your own sense of decency if you have one, but it would be wrong and disruptive for any media outlet to jump to conclusions or assumption while local authorities are still investigating.

Attempted beheading - sawing at the victim’s neck and stabbing his eyes while the perpetrator yelled Alan Snackbar.

Why is it being reported as a stabbing rather than an attempted beheading?

Because this was an attempted beheading (clear in video) and the poor victim was bleeding from the eyes suggesting (key word suggesting) that the attacker had also done something to his eyes.

This wasn’t a typical knife attack.

The horrific nature of it. Eyes gouged, attempted head decapitation. It’s not a stabbing.

Are you one of those Brits who are apparently unaware of the existence of loyalist paramilitaries?

I'm amazed that onlookers stepped in to stop this incredibly violent attack. Those people are heroes.

Yes but why - what is the strategy and goal?

This probably gives a proper idea of what happened without being horribly graphic as I imagine the video is.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/hes-trying-to-cut-his-head-off-attacker-saws-at-victims-neck-in-sickening-belfast-knife-attack/news-story/fa948b6592b06ae2e881b8b1b9b75251

I just put Belfast stabbing into a search and it was not until the 7th result that beheading was mentioned in the link headline (LBC). The next mention is on p4. Some sites do indeed use the words brutal and horrific but nearly all stabbings are brutal and horrific it is not really any indication of what happened.

Make of that what you will, censoring distressing information? Or minimising the brutality?

I'm not following the logic. How does civil unrest in the UK give Musk more power, influence or money?

He isn't dead, thankfully.

I think attempted beheadings are still relatively uncommon in the UK. Cheers for minimising such a horrific act. I'm sure the victim's family will take a lot of comfort from that.

Rupert Lowe is all over it - making good use of the money Musk pays him.

What a horrific thing to happen, that poor man.

People have every right to be upset over violence, all violence. But mobs trashing neighbourhoods doesn't help. It just ends up costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. What is the point of that? Epping alone has cost over one and a half million quid.

And I get bloody tired of the likes of Musk whipping up yet more division in the UK because it gets his rocks off.

I do not get your post at all.
Do you advocate children watching this ? You don’t want to bring up children desensitised to ‘this stuff’.
Do you want civil unrest - although you say ‘it isn’t about it’ what isn’t ?

I don’t understand where you are coming from at all.
You seem to be saying that children should be able to watch it.
If so that is barbaric. And horrifying.

Probably waiting for official police statements rather than videos on social media.

The argument that the ‘right wing’ are trying to make it political is ridiculous. If it’s an immigrant it IS political. Like it or not. And deflecting and minimising (as so many on here are doing) is nothing short of pathetic. I know what side is right and wrong in this case, and the ‘kindness’ people are trying to show is very misguided. Our freedom costs us, people need to realise that. You let anyone in to our country, no matter their culture, religion and moral code? You are no longer free.