Met police are erasing the third victim of the Golders Green stabbing

[tulippetals]

https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/2050114417405132857?s=46

I am actually horrified. A third, Muslim, man was stabbed in the attack but he isn’t being mentioned anywhere. How is this allowed?!

When and where did BBC news say that?

Not at all.

My thinking was more along the lines that the earlier incident not being mentioned in later news bulletins was possibly symptomatic of "domestic" incidents not being as newsworthy or not treated as seriously as similar crimes that happen in a non-domestic setting.

I remember that attack and I had no trouble finding plenty of articles/reports about it.

OP, you keep referring to the matter of the third victim being totally erased.

If that's the case, how are we all aware of it?

I see.

There were not three victims in the Golders Green terrorist attack, there were two.

The man who tried to mass murder Jews and the police also stabbed someone he knew in a personal dispute the day before the attack, miles away in Southwark. He then travelled to a Jewish area to kill.

It's obvious what this thread is trying to achieve, by subtly providing racist misinformation. Am surprised Mumsnet hasn't deleted it yet.

I think some of the comments are absolutely disgusting. At the end of the day three men have died - one person is not more important than the other. A person’s death should never be minimised.

I’m not following. Is OP saying that the fact the guy travelled to Golders Green and started stabbing people who could be visually identified as Jewish just a coincidence?

Let’s also think about the fact that they’re suggesting a special police force for circa 300k people yet violence against women and girls is being ignored

What "special police force" for 300k people?

It seems like there is competition of who has died.

The first stabbing was mentioned an hour or so after the two stabbings in Golders Green.

Why has an incident in which no one was hurt received less coverage than a racially motivated violent knife attack on the streets of London.

Then to prove the lack of coverage you go on to link a BBC article 🤦‍♀️

The real story here is the poor mental health services and health inequality in the UK. This man had only just been released from a psychiatric hospital and was still clearly very unwell. Anthony Williams who stabbed multiple people on a train only 6 or 7 months ago was psychotic. Black men in the UK face significant mental health disparities, causes like this are are what millions of pounds should be being pumped into, it would help keep everybody safer and improve communities.

Where do you get that from? It's all been explained in the articles and upthread.

How does anyone know that the first attack was a personal grudge and the second one was a terrorist attack? Did the perpetrator explain himself once in custody? Or does it suit a narrative that it was a "terror" attack. People who look different due to race, religion or preference are targets for attack all the time. Sometimes that's classified was a "hate crime" or even a racist attack, but not sure why this is suddenly a terrorist event. As @Hoardasurass says we'll have to wait till the trial, but as the OP is stressing media and KS etc really pushing the "terrorist" aspect.

Can't the attacker just be a racist? After all there are a great many of them wandering the streets.

Thankfully, no one has died.

Are you okay - do you think it was okay the other man died?

That’s good to know.

Tell me you don’t read the news, without telling me you don’t read the news.

The third man hasn’t been erased. It’s you who has the dubious narrative.

The first was a personal dispute the second was a racially motivated attack and has been declared a terrorist incident. They’re not mutually exclusive.

Nobody died @Lavenderflower. And the poster did not say it was ok that a third man was attacked. They are drawing a clear distinction between a personal dispute and a terror attack.

But literally no one here is minimising the attack, are they? They are explaining why the news coverage has been focusing on the anti-Semitic stabbing of strangers. It’s absolutely untrue that the third, non-Jewish person has person has been ignored. I barely listen to the news but do sometimes listen to the BBC headlines and it was mentioned in the very first headline. So there’s absolutely no basis for that assertion! As soon as the information was available that a third person was attacked, then it was reported.

edited - thankfully no one has died

You do understand that a domestic dispute that resulted in the stabbing of anyone especially a friend of 20+ years is always considered less news worthy that 2 random knife attacks on strangers because of their religion.
Question for you @tulippetals if it was a Jewish man who attacked his Jewish friend and then went on to randomly attack 2 Muslim men for no reason other than the fact that they were visibly Muslim would be upset at the way its reported ie the 2 random strangers getting more press than the friend, and if not why not

I have no skin in this game, but this thread is the first time I'm learning there was a 3rd victim, and I've been checking news sites twice a day for the last few days.

It was very stupid of the authorities to downplay the third victim as it lends itself to specifically these kinds of conspiracy theories.

It's perfectly understandable that a radicalised, hate filled man could attack someone known to them, and then feel emboldened to carry out a terrorist attack. One does not occlude the other, it supports it.

Just as the Southport monster practiced terrorising his family before he went on to commit a gender-based terrorism attack.