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.

They disbelieved & mistreated him and left him to die because he was white and the murderer was brown and accused him of racist abuse. Call it racism, call it being anti-white. We can all see what happened.

It’s an awful comparison to make, because both are terrible in their own right. And what you’re trying to say is not obvious at all.

Also, who has antisemitism been downplayed by? Certainly not by this government. One of the main things I like about Keir Starmer’s leadership is his absolute clarity - which is exactly as it should be - that all forms of antisemitism are completely unacceptable.

Ummmm but they managed to handcuff him when he was between a car and a wall! So they COULD get to him.

Reported for what disagreeing with you

Barely: when he said he'd been stabbed, the murderer (or a family member) said "No he hasn't" and the police woman said "I know, but we have to check don't we" and then barely lifted up his shirt to take a glance - because she had already decided that he was the bad guy.

That "I know..." is horrifying, the more I think about it.

This from itv
www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-06-02/three-southampton-family-members-appear-in-court-on-weapons-charges

I didn’t say that but I find it hard to believe white police don’t want to protect white people as some massive trend.

Yes that's exactly what happened. They turned up and believed the words of the non white murderer who was standing unhurt over the body of the clearly injured white person saying they'd been stabbed, so that they didn't appear racist. It's so ingrained in public bodies they probably didn't even realise they were doing it. It's systemic. Separate to this we've seen an explosion in knife crime in London- because stop and search was deemed racist. We're seeing crime soar because police are ineffective- but you get 5 officers arresting a comedian at Heathrow because of his gender critical comments. This is the outcome of appeasement rather than actual policing. Vickrum thought he could get away with murder by playing race card - and he possibly almost did.

There are yobs attacking police on the street. They are lobbing cans and bins. The people living there must be terrified.

The problem seems to be that some people see characteristics over other flesh and blood humans, even when they are suffering apparently.

No they didn't omg watch the video they handcuffed him when he was pulled from behind the car

Hmm it’s not a very good comparison.

Don't be so bloody silly.

The gaslighting far left race baiters on this thread are disgusting.

If you have watched the and can’t imagine that being your son dying in handcuffs while his killer who player the race card and his family stand over you, and the police belittle you, dragging his dying body across the drive, while he pleads that he can’t breathe, then you are the problem.

And he was just a student starting out his life hundreds of miles from home, brutally murdered.

These wokesters will tell you there’s nothing to see here. They are the same people who were taking the knee and advocating for corrupt BLM organization a few years ago.

It has been proven many a time. The grooming gang scandal is a good example. Police didn’t want to act because they didn’t want to be labelled as racist

Do you not agree that the sustained demonisation of young white men (and to a lesser extent women) has caused massive issues in this country?

Ah well thats alright then innit.
Everyone back on the bus

He wasn't wrong though was he. He should never have apologised. She was bigoted, and apologising only emboldened bigots.

The police need to make a public apology on behalf of their officers
Everyone in attendance made a complete pig ear of the situation and unless they acknowledge that we won’t move forward

Well I think it is!

The Mums been convicted of assisting an offender and will probably go down.

This. Thank you @Broccolish

Source? It's called having my eyes and ears open, not using faux naivety to score points. Uncle Tom and coconut are two derogatory terms often used by defund police proponents. I need present no empirical evidence for something you already are aware of.

What are you trying to say?

It doesn’t help, and I don’t support it.

but history shows that when people feel ignored, angry, or believe there’s been a serious injustice, some will inevitably lash out. That’s not a justification, just reality.

The question is why so many people are angry enough to be out there in the first place.