Was This A Racist Attack?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3725598/Highly-intelligent-thug-17-left-five-friends-maimed-spraying-chemicals-them.html

Terrorist ? NO

Mentally Ill? NO

Dare I say it, maybe it was a racist attack?

[douglas9401]

Quite a trick, wearing blinkers and rose tinted glasses at the same time.

[Peter Pedant]

// Dare I say it, maybe it was a racist attack? //
or an attack by aliens
or an attack because he didnt like shakespeare
or did like Shakepeare ( it should have happened hereafter etc )but regretted he wasnt black
or it was protest about Mark Duggan ......
or he thought it was acid and couldnt read ....

so many questions and so few answers .....

Poor kids - having sodium hydroxide poured over me isnt a fate I wouild like

[sp1814]

AOG

There is no evidence to support the idea that this was a racially motivated attack.

[RandyMarsh]

You may struggle to find really committed 17 year old racists.

[mikey4444]

SP....you had better give up. For some people on here, as long as there is someone not-white involved in an incident like this, there will always be a chance that its a racial attack, no matter how slight !

[douglas9401]

And there are others who happily blow with the breeze, mikey, though they may not enjoy where they eventually land.

[mikey4444]

Eh.....?

Thanks Dougie !

[THECORBYLOON]

"THECORBYLOON

/// and had there been a racist element, would the Judge not have drawn attention to the fact? ///

Get real, you are talking about a black on white attack here."

Since you keep banging on about your belief that only white folk can be racists, have you not answered your own question?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Since you keep banging on about your belief that only white folk can be racists, have you not answered your own question? ///

And what question would that be?

And it is not my belief, only what we are led to believe judging by the very few non whites who are ever accused of committing a racial attack.

[sp1814]

AOG

Do you believe this was a racist attack?

If so, why?

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, you asked, "Was this a racist attack"

[Hypognosis]

@AOG

To decide whether this incident was racist, we need to indulge in some conjecture, which I know a number of regulars, who post to your threads, take strong objection to. You may do yourself, so I apologise, in advance.

We should conjecture whether the same individual would react to a group of 5 BME individuals by approaching them, challenging them with a "where are you from?", instead of the kind of greeting which won them a "20-strong group of friends" and play out the rest of the incident in the same way.

Likewise, for a mixed race grouping, would he spray them all, for being "strangers" or would he spray one colour but spare others?

His friends evidently enjoyed the spectacle so should think themselves lucky not to have been identifiable, on CCTV, for joint enterprise, conspiracy to commit GBH, failure to report a crime (he handed himself in, maybe too little time for them to take the initiative) or whatever is appropriate.

The article does not say whether he stole the spray, while drunk, or whether it was something prepared at home, so carrying it could be said to be premeditated.

[sp1814]

^^^^^^

Eh?

[Orderlimit]

Agree with the 2nd post at 09:32 Sat 06th Aug 2016 "Perhaps it was...... "

Judge: 'There is no explanation as to why you should have done this'.

So technically, it could have been, we don't know. Fair question Mr Aog.