AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

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Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

It's bizarre isn't it.

I didn't say WC people are the issue, it's the racists, regardless of their class. Look at the church burnt out in the Shankill several days ago. It was because a brown person bought it (it had been derelict for years) and the assumption was immediately made it was to "display dominance/bring in shariah law/take over our area". They knew nothing about the man but automatically their narrow minds screamed anti Muslim thoughts. The owner isn't even Muslim
These areas will never change.

This!

It's the brutal, barbaric methods this animal used

Is a woman 15 weeks pregnant being beaten to death by her partner and it covered up run of the mill nowadays?

A 23 yr old woman murdered in her home and dismembered in a bin in 2023, is that run of the mill?

A 21 year old man forced into a wheelie bin and it set alight. Not brutal?

A man burnt alive in his home trying desparately to break windows to escape while neighbours try to help only to watch him die as his murderer heads off to the next town on a bus?

These crimes aren't brutal enough to report in the UK media? But this one is.

PSNI have now said perpetrator is from Sudan.

I'm only a few pages in to this thread but I have to say I'm amazed by some of the responses.

Has anyone accused the passersby who intervened of being far right yet?

Smh.

The vehement anger and horror simply isn't there when it's someone local. How many riots were organized for the above women?

Wonderful - another country with a predominantly Islamic population 🙃

It's a big story on every single major UK standard news source! 🤷

Muslim population you mean? You are showing yourself up the more you post.

Totally agree, I was seriously sexually assaulted by a white male stranger while walking home from work. The crime and subsequent trial l got a few paragraphs in the local media. Not that I wanted it all over the news but I am sure that had he been from different background it would have made the national media in today's climate.

Exactly!

And the riots are terrifying for all! I'm scared for my family back home going I to the rest of this week, there'll be hell overnight,.I'd be more scared of they weren't all white and from northern ireland but it's scary amyway

George Floyd beat up a pregnant woman and his death raised billions for those who supported him.

That old line when some of us do not go along with posts wanting to cause further division

The man it appears was wrongly identified as Somalian and now reported as Sudanese, he has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, ongoing investigation, the PM has made a statement, its a critical incident, the police are investigating a motive

so what is the problem exactly with the reporting? what was so complex on the reporting that you could not understand

Early this morning you had to open the NI page on the BBC to see it.

I noticed it climb the ranks during the morning and now it is everywhere.

Perhaps they would have liked to underplay it but social media has ensured that they can't.

Women's Aid made a statement last year warning against the "protect are women" protests, a large number of whom had DV convictions. Make it make sense.

It's not just Belfast. We had this charming refugee walking around stabbing people with massive blades recently in Edinburgh, barely made the news despite schools in the area locking down and a 7 hour stand off with police. Charged with attempted murder.
From Chad I believe. Told the courts he was 23, looked about 40.
I find most incidents outside England don't really make national news.

https://news.sky.com/video/man-carrying-knives-in-edinburgh-incident-13514251

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89kk0841pwo

Did he murder her then pretend to be devastated and look for her killer?

Don't be ridiculous. My social media was full of all those other stories I mention because they happened close to where I went to school. It didn't gain the traction because it didn't appeal to the political agenda.

The idea this would be buried because it's an immigrant is so at odds with the reality of reporting of violent crime it's laughable

People supported highlighting police brutality

He was arrested and was a victim of police brutality that led to his death because he was a black man

The police are not and should not be vitalities, which in this case is totally irrelevant

The victim is apparently in his 40s, but I agree it makes no difference if the attacker is insane and I would cheerfully lock him up and throw away the key.

I am also not so young but remember the gangland murders and the IRA attacks and the mutilation of 'traitors' as well as many very violent crimes, but we did keep a lot more mentally unstable people in mental hospitals until it all became care in the community!

It's your comment that's ridiculous not mine. You could've simply commented without throwing insult, but as your comment carried no weight you had to throw in an insult to yourself.
I listed countries I lived in, not vacationed in.
Ps, men who hit their wives are not "lovely" and you'll note I didn't list Irish. You're welcome to marry from Africa and the Middle East.

So as we are told, and know, it's not just asylum seekers, migrants and brown people who stab, murder and rape. But when they do it makes the headlines and there are "protests".

So why when a black person is stabbed or murdered do we not have a Black Lives Matter protest even if or when shock horror the perpetrator may not necessarily be white?
Jess Phillips reads out the names of women killed by men each year in the houses of parliament - how brave - why does she not lead a protest against femicide?
Sarah Everard protests ? Where are you?
A rightwing politician called for rage against the killing of a white man - where's the rage against PEOPLE being killed - black, white brown - knife crime, too few police, sympathetic judiciary watered down sentences?

I grew up in a working class family in Belfast in the 80s. I don’t recognise this at all.