AIBU to feel deeply unsettled by the Southampton protest scenes?

[HopelessPessimist]

Southampton protest against police, huge crowd, Tommy Robinson whipping everyone into a frenzy and saying "this IS about race"

Other speakers declaring that England is a Christian country. The Lords Prayer chanted by every speaker. The leader of UKIP saying he will deport all migrants and make government Christian. The leaders of the protest saying they are being pushed by the police cordon, while the camera angle shows the police haven't moved. The leaders of the protest mocking the female police officer who are taking over a shift from another police officer in the cordon "They're replacing all the men with women!"

This is awful. It feels like the start of civil war. Maybe human beings just aren't supposed to go decades without a fight.

I feel far more unsettled as a parent of white young adults in a country where police are more concerned about being called racist than protecting people against violence.

Yes me too, far more unsettled as the parent of a white young adult.

Has anyone actually said that’s what happened?

Yanbu a lot of people use these protests as an excuse for violence

Things are getting very ugly all over Britain, it's not very nice is it? It's one cause this week and another next week.

Protests may have to be banned from outside public buildings or on streets and roads. Confine them to a cordoned off area of a park or something. But that wouldn't be enough to work off the anger of rent a crowd would it.

Tommy Robinson shit doesn't usually bother me but this is ridiculous. The murderers own religion has condemned him in strong terms.

It IS due to race but not about race, it's about making police 'anti racist' and therefore racist towards white people.

I do think this will correct now. Same as other overly zealous EDI actions.

Maybe human beings men just aren't supposed to go decades without a fight.
fixed it for you.

But yes, it’s deeply worrying how far reason has dropped in this country. Britain was once known for fairness. Now we are just prey for demagogues that the Greeks always talked about. The watch has indeed failed, thanks to the greed of superyacht owners and their sycophants.

Tommy would be so pleased to hear that

Why do you think you might be unreasonable to feel unsettled by it OP?

You forgot to say?

Yes I think so, this incident is absolutely awful

Hear hear

The protesters are always as thick as mince, toothless , drunk and not an active brain cell between them.

Extreme far right tactic that's been used for decades.

I am married to a Muslim immigrant and raising a British mixed race child.

I think this reaction was eminently foreseeable - the police deserve it, and worse. The officers in this case are a disgrace - as was Starmer's mealy-mouthed appeasement about "no two tier policing". It's mass gaslighting.

People should be protesting against this, can you imagine the scenes and the uproar if it was the other way around? As the poster above said I have zero problem with people protesting against st the police, they behaved disgustingly and deserve to never work a single day in the police force again.

I don’t care if people protest at a police station. As long as they don’t try to demonise Sikh people. This was one unhinged family, and part of the reason the police believe their lies is probably because most Sikhs do have such a good standing in society.

Yes especially the pro Palestine ones. I agree.

I'm with you on this 100%

So a couple of officers make a mistake and 100s of other officers should get attacked and assaulted for it because thats exactly what's going to happen. If one of your colleagues made a mistake would you be OK with 1000s of people to come after you for it

I agree.

We all should be but only some have the actual gung ho to get up and do something.. well done to them!

"A couple of officers" in this case, but it's not the only case. It does seem to be a systemic problem with "two tier" policing reported in lots of other cases too over recent months/years.

A mistake? It wasn’t a mistake it was a total fucking failure to carry out good fair policing. Hopefully it will lead to some changes within the police force because they are all so scared of being called racist that they’d rather see a white young man bleeding to death on the floor.

The last words that young man heard were his rights being read to him. He asked a police officer for help and was called a liar.
He lay there dying.
That is what is deeply unsettling here. I have sons and my heart breaks for Henry and his family.

Rest in Peace Henry Nowak.