To think media coverage is BS

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A teenage girl was killed in Nottingham last week, she was beaten half to death outside the busiest shopping centre in the city by a group of 10 women (said to be black women) and today she died from her injuries. The teen was Muslim, and the motives suspected are racial hate. AIBU to be furious about the woeful lack of media coverage? I can't help but think if this was a group of Asian, Muslim women who attacked a White British teen it would make national news. As a side note, many many people watched this poor girl dragged along the street and beaten and didn't do a thing, Kitty Genovese style. Again, I find it hard to imagine that happening to a White teen, there would be people rushing to help... AIBU??

You are right about news coverage, I didn't even know about it until I just read your post...

That is shocking and scary, nobody should be attacked like that,

The Police have said there is no evidence to suggest it was motivated by racial hate. It seems to have been an ongoing situation with the victim and the attackers.

Horrific what happened.

It was on the news in London last night, I saw it on the 6pm bbc news.

It’s a very sad story, but I did see it on the front page of the BBC site. It’s horrific what happened to her and no one should be treated that way, but as Jacks said, this seemed to be an existing issue between the woman and the group that wasn’t racially motivated.

Additionally, just because you mention Kitty Genovese, in that case there have been multiple investigations and records show several people did call the police, it was that she crawled to a dark area and they couldn’t find her. It shows the dangers of spreading assumed information before facts are presented. There is a great documentary made by her brother called “the witness” that is all about the crime.

I think there has been quite a bit of news coverage but not as much as you may expect due to the time lapse. It was 20th February she was attacked and she was checked out at hospital and discharged. The next day she was clearly very ill and taken to hospital again and they found a bleed on her brain and she has very tragically died a few weeks later.

If she had died directly following the attack I think there would have been more coverage.

I think lots of people have heard about it, but many are assuming it was a gang thing.

The police take on it seems to suggest something similar, that the girls knew each other.

Very few violent attacks, and certainly not all murders, make the news.

Sorry to be blunt but things like this (sadly) happen up and down the country every single day and lots of things don’t get reported. Your argument doesn’t really make sense either because if it was a white British victim the right wing leaning lot would be all over it, Daily Mail leading the way

it was just on the BBC news.
awful poor girl