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.

My DH is retired police (was in up til end 2025). He was an inspector. This IS how they are forced to behave. DH was glad to finish after 25yrs. He said it was SO woke they couldn’t do their jobs properly and ethnic minorities WERE given leniency by the courts. Whites ARE discriminated against.

I remember a few years ago when a black man rang up a radio station and said that he tried to help the police when they were chasing a suspect and ended up being arrested because they thought he was lying and I can't blame the police for that any more than I can blame them for not believing someone who they thought was a criminal.

How are the police supposed to know what to believe? How would you know who was telling the truth?

Let’s all collectively agree to stop responding to ‘you alright’ they’re on the wind up.

Sorry for my repeated posts @MyLimeGuide- not making a point - my phone went weird!

What systemic change are these protestors asking for?

This is one of the first cases of this ever happening and so why the need for protesting?

What exact changes to the police force are they requesting?

It all police they are protesting about or just the white ones?

But you really should be a Christian if you’re going to march through London carrying a cross.

What, no politician every says anything ever, unless directed to by the Speaker? Rubbish.

What a load of fucking gaslighting shit! Talk about dismissing someone’s genuine concerns for their own kid’s safety!

Ive tried to post the video on here but it says its to big to post. But anyone saying they didn't lift his top to check his back for stab wounds as the police officer said I don't think you have mate is lying

Why are so many police officers incompetent?

Put a stop to two tier policing maybe? Ban woke bullshit??

I know. it's so so awful, poor lad...

Oh for heavens sake! My mixed force would have to go back until at least the l 16th century and then it’s very unlikely until maybe be you go back a thousand years. But that’s not relevant. What we are talking about here is people who differentiate themselves from the majority due to their ethnicity. I’m white British , because that’s what my ethnicity is, the fact I might find a tiny bit of Norse in me if you did some dna analysis is irrelevant to my existence. “We are all mixed race” is exactly the sort of 6th former, stick it to the parents reasoning everyone is bored of. It has no bearing on the actual debate, except telling us the person ‘s debating skills reached their peak in junior school.

Who is guiding the anti white rhetoric? well people who want to change this country to suit their own needs, people who want to go unchallenged in fulfilling their own agenda so people who don’t value white British culture

Remember that time that a Live Facial Recognition Camera was no longer used in Chelmsford because it correctly identified a disproportionate number of black people?

From The Guardian:
Essex commissioned University of Cambridge academics to conduct a study, which involved 188 actors walking past cameras being actively deployed from marked police vans in Chelmsford. The results were published last week and showed about half of the people on a watchlist were correctly identified and incorrect identifications were extremely rare, but the system was more likely to correctly identify men than women and it was “statistically significantly more likely to correctly identify black participants than participants from other ethnic groups”.

I know its so bloody scary isn't it? Incompetent or corrupt.

Are you blind?

And while I understand the anger, I think about how Mumsnet righteously protested the sentences for the three young rapists who attacked thise two young girls, and got it in the media, and forced the PM to comment and for the sentenced to be referred. No bottles thrown, no streets terrorised, just angry women saying we'd had enough.

Yet statistics tell a very different story.

I wonder who we should believe - a random, anonymous user on MN or factual statistical data.

Hmm 🤔

They don't care which police officer it is their just to busy throwing glass bottles at all of them

No it's not - he chairs the session! And he never asks them to make a statement unless they've told him they want to.

Let them answer the question. The poor Polish lad was targeted as a Polish immigrant on a student visa by a British attacker.

That poor boy. He was just 18 years old and hadn't done anything wrong. If I was living nearer Southampton I’d be out protesting too.

How are the police supposed to know what to believe? How would you know who was telling the truth?

You assess the situation and talk to the people involved….

What systemic change are these protestors asking for?

I don't know what the Southampton protesters are asking for, but I'd say that the police need to be retrained to be colourblind, and not be scared of "community" sensitivities, and not have a fear of racism accusations hanging over them.

And? You’re just completely dismissing what the poster is saying! Just stop with the gaslighting shit already!