Targeted.... The Truth About Disability Hate Crime.

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Now watching.... 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔

Gosh these poor people... Makes me so angry 😡 😡 😡 😡

Just finished watching this too.

Wonder who the supermarkets were who thought the Covid rules had discontinued the Equality Act.

I said on the thread yesterday my son @RainbowWilf996 has experienced hate crime several times.... 😔 😔 😔 😔

Hello everyone I would like to tell you something.

You may not know or aware but there is a programme that made me feel little bit unsure about watching it

The reason why?

It because it talking about disability hate crime on BBC 2

I have been experienced those it may be too long I will tell some of groups I feel safe aswell here.

In 2014
I was walking home from my local bowling club Mencap one night in dark as I was walking I noticed a man there behaving suspiciously as he was walking I felt he is up to no good so I walked home thinking I am safe until he came around in front of me asking what in my pockets and then this happened.

He grabbed my coat trying to shook me and i couldn’t communicate I was so scared he was asking for my phone and money I then did my karate bit and ran home quickly I was so so scared upset out of breath shaking so badly trying to contact my mum until the staffs saw me shaking and upset I was lost in words difficult to express when I was out of my breaths until i told them I was crying so hard wanting be my mummy and my staffs too the staffs came gave me cuddles then they rang the police and I explained what has happened and because of that I didn’t want to walk home in dark ever again but I feel safe if I going out to somewhere on bus like as sundowners I know my friends who work there always there to help me out until when it time for me to go home I would book the taxi back home I would tell anyone when I get home.

Other story is.

2016
I was on Stratford with my mum I was very excited about going to see the show I was on the tube the man on other side kicked my feet and it upset me I even cried my mum told him off and it was apparently he was drunk.

I also experienced cyber bullying online by other people who wasn’t quite understanding about my disability and mocking about my writing etc.

That what I got to say

All of those what I has experienced is disability hate crime.

Now it about the time for other people to be more understanding about myself and other people with disabilities too like I do as I always been there for those especially for people with Downs Syndrome in my hearts like as my pals who

Did anyone else on here watch Silenced as well. Being repeated on BBC2 right now.

@RainbowWilf996 Im sorry you have experienced all that.
In tonights programme they said NO ONE has been prosecuted for any of the crimes

Please watch the documentary: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rh4p/targeted-the-truth-about-disability-hate-crime

My disabled DS has had hate directed at him many times and I fear for his future.

@Livingtothefull

Thank you MercyBooth for the flowers.

RainbowWilf996 - I am so sorry about the experiences you have been through.

Just a couple of the incidents we have experienced with DS recently:

1. DS goes to a youth club for special needs young people, from time to time they put on social events for them. Some of the neighbours object to the fact that there is a car park in front of the building which they can't use as it is private, so there is a background of locals complaining to the Council etc about this. As many of the young people (including DS) have physical disabilities they need a car park close by - so the locals' complaints got them nowhere.

After one event we all came out of the building in the evening to find the gates of the car park padlocked. That was the locals' way of getting back at us; the fact that many of our young people can't cope with stressful situations, need to get home for meds etc. meant nothing to them.

1. DS was travelling to his college with other students in their minibus; it was very obviously a vehicle for disabled people (had a huge wheelchair sign on the back for one thing). Somebody shot at it with an air gun; luckily nobody was hurt.

The thing is that whenever I complain about this to friends/colleagues/even family, I get told that I am being over sensitive and that it is just my perception that the disabled are being specifically targeted. They fondly believe that people are well-disposed to the disabled, as they never see it at first hand; even when I ask them how often they have been deliberately locked into a car park or had an air gun fired at them in the street (never in their lives - even those who have lived decades longer than DS).