Downs Syndrome man arrested Worlds gone mad surely???

[lottiejenkins]

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3761056.ece
I heard about this story on Jeremy Vine this lunchtime.. i have posted in SN too......
Why arent the police out looking for "real criminals"??

why didnt the school deal with it??????????

It's like the autistic kids with ASBOS for looking over fences (ds1 will be joining them if we ever end up with twatty neighbours- luckily ours are great.)

Quite insane. Although I think that we do have a long way to go with people/general public accepting challenging behaviours from the learning disabled when they're out and about. Gawd knows ds1 gets enough tuts and shakes of the head and I know people (especially people with children with DS) who have had some dreadful stuff said to them.

It just reflects ignorance. People with LD's often have challenging behaviours, especially as they get older (even if those challenging behaviours aren't aggressive and are more a lack of understanding of 'normal' social rules). Many members of the public appear to feel uncomfortable around this, so the legal system needs to ensure that it doesn't let these vulnerable individuals down.

disgraceful. appallingly heavy handed behaviour by the professionals in taking this incident so far.

"even if those challenging behaviours aren't aggressive and are more a lack of understanding of 'normal' social rules"

how true yurt!

When i popped in tescos before christmas a man with SLDs grabbed hold of me and loved me up (as I was passing) and then slapped my bum his carer was so apologetic but I didnt even flinch (as you can imagine)

Completely stupid And unless the Times is missing something out, even IF that really had been assault, what part of it was racial abuse? Agree with a comment on there that assaulting someone of a different race is not automatically being racist! Surely that's a form of racism in itself, saying that anyone from a minority can't just be a victim of crime and be helped accordingly, they automatically have to be a victim of racism too!

Sonic, the Times said he called the girl 'blackface' - which was a phrase she used herself. The idea that a man with DS could possibly understand the connotations of the word is clearly ridiculous.

My sister is an LD nurse and has been known to rip the piss out of people who stare at her clients when she's taking them out and about... but only in private.

This is todays Daily Mail on the subject,,,,,,,,,
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560226&in_page_id=1770

Ah right edam, the online article didn't make that clear, it just said he told her to 'go away' and that she called herself 'blackface'. Still, IMO there's nothing racist at all for anyone of that mental age to use a phrase like 'blackface', how could they know .

Goodness only knows, tbh, maybe he didn't say it and she did? Police could have easily said 'you called her blackface' and man replied 'yes' in an attempt to please, without actually understanding he was agreeing to an accusation IYKWIM.

who on earth put the ad in the paper? I don't understand that bit, would it have been the college? the police?