Here’s the Unherd comment.
He seems to be missing the police involvement in the deaths of George Floyd and Sarah Everard (the first involving on duty cops and the second a cop committing murder on his day off). Police are supposed to make our communities safer, not kill civilians or suspects.
The public protested because public protest is all you’ve got left when the police themselves are the killers.
Thankfully, in Brianna’s case the police seem to have behaved in the exact professional manner that we all hope for, a swift arrest, a careful collection of evidence, the accused being treated in a legally compliant and humane manner and the family of the victim immediately supported.
In turn, this became a successful prosecution with a swift, unanimous, guilty verdict, within ten months of the crime, despite the enormous court backlog.
I expect that there were many small failures of various authorities in the lead up to this terrible crime and those small failures probably added up to a serious failure (hopefully there will be some serious questions asked and answered via a formal inquiry) but small failures of schools, of social services, of CAMHS, of funding cuts that made services impossible to access before crisis are chronic, gradual, almost unnoticeable failures, whereas a man under police restraint dying on camera and a young woman being abducted, raped, murdered and disposed of by a serving police officer are impossible to miss.
The police who were tasked with investigating Brianna’s murder seem to have done a pretty good job and that should be acknowledged.
If only all UK police consistently reached this standard, eh?