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 doubt it. Don’t judge everyone by your standards.

If doctors left a young man who had been fatally stabbed to bleed to death and refused to help him when he pleaded for help because the Sikh who stabbed him said he had been racist to him then yes, we should see protests against those doctors.

Likely, they’ll probably turn up to tell Tommy Robinson to fuck off home.

Wherever his home is.

How many years ago was it that Gordon brown lost the election after talking about a woman who was airing concerns about Easter European immigration was dismissed as "who let that bigoted old woman in".
Any they have learned exactly what in the past 12 years?

As a teacher I'm sure you've seen fascism shift to the left. You certainly will have seen it in cases such as Batley and Jewish children's schools protected by security.

They never learn

When I was in the police, it was drummed into us from the first day of training that the primary responsibility of police officers was preservation of life! Crime prevention/detection/public order was all lower down the list of priorities than preservation of life. Has that changed??

A bit like the “free Palestine” lot

Not sure that changes my question does it (though it should probably be aimed at Tommy Ten Names and those UKIP leader).

He was dying, Left to die!

Disbelieved

I do think its a case of negligent policing here, rather than a choice made due to race. (It could well have been due to race, we dont know the officers minds) but it seems more that they didnt bother to check on the man in their care! 'I dont think you have been mate', fucking get down to his level and check. He is not a dog.

Its fucking disgusting and the officers are negligent and should be found so in the inquiry, and trials that follow.

For me, the big issue with the police, is classism. The survivors of the disgusting grooming gangs wouldn't have been ignored if they were middle class, not a chance. Were the sikh man not seeming like a homeowner of that large property, i dont think the police would've given him the same respect.

The protests today are just an excuse for Tommy Robinson to incite violence though. He doesnt care.

Rip Henry Nowak.

Why should they do that? Free speech and all that. Every single time the right organise a protest the left throw their toys out the pram and rush to counter protest. So if its OK for the BLM protests, why do you have a problem with this protest @HopelessPessimist ?

Dragged, handcuffed, ignored and arrested. How awful for an 18 year old student.

I’m sure they’ll carry the guilt and horror of that realisation for the rest of their lives, but all evidence suggests that he would have died regardless. The consequences of their mistake was that his final moments were more distressing as he was not believed, comforted etc. but being arrested.

They didn't leave him dying they called an ambulance and administered first aid when they realised what had actually happened.

I feel so sorry for the parents who have just lost their child in horrific circumstances and people are using it as an excuse to be racist and be violent.

It’s disgusting how these idiots prey on other people’s grief.

There needs to be stricter laws against this.

Absolutely bizarre that anyone is trying to claim it isn’t.

So the Right should have the freedom to protest but not the left?

Stop being so melodramatic.

It’s not the protest you have to worry about. It’s how wokery and name calling perfectly reasonable racist is hardening people’s voting intentions.

This what happens when gaslighting and race baiting people goes too far. A

Mainly because the father of the deceased teenager has asked for the exact opposite of this.

Anyone using this boys death to stir division, create conflict, or attack minorities needs to get some basic respect.

The family don’t want it, and they’re the ones who actually matter here. Time to go home, Tommy.

I’ve spent the day driving round Southampton didn’t see any protests (nor police presence). Not sure they were that huge…

Other way round, which is my point.

They ignored his pleas that he had been stabbed.

According to you, they did everything right then! Wow. Rage bait or just devoid of any humanity?

The family, as with Lee Rigby's will have been guided on their stance. It is to prevent riots.