Teenage Gangs Given Stab Aid Lessons.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275451/Teenage-gangs-given-aid-lessons-save-stab-attack-victims.html#axzz2K1sKsXYW

What next the widespread issue of free stab vests?

Interesting to note however, why the Daily Mail chose two white females to model as knife crime gang members.

[emmie]

perhaps it would be more pertinent to teach them how to stay out of gangs, irrespective of peer pressure and so forth.

[ludwig]

// Interesting to note however, why the Daily Mail chose two white females to model as knife crime gang members. //

They're not models AOG, they're real people who saw the DM papparrazzi and just went for them.

[Orderlimit]

Haha, yea, a couple of AB users.

[Baldric]

Any teaching of first-aid has got to be a good thing

[FredPuli43]

You may know how to save someone who has suffered a puncture wound and is bleeding profusely,whatever the cause of the wound. Unfortunately, not everyone does. Education in first aid is always useful to have.

[anotheoldgit]

ludwig

/// They're not models AOG, they're real people who saw the DM papparrazzi and just went for them. ///

Caption that appeared under the said photo.

/// Troubled: The scheme aims to save lives by ensuring gang members who witness a stabbing can provide life-saving emergency treatment (posed by models) ///

[THECORBYLOON]

anotheoldgit, is there ANY chance that you can go a few days without bringing colour up?

[boxtops]

Gangs are any colour, boys and girls. The DM would probably have been accused of selective racism if they'd shown 2 black guys.

[emmie]

perhaps as i said you have to get to the cause of why some of these gangs are doing this, drugs certainly, respect certainly, and with the best will in the world, if their mate has been stabbed, do you really think they are going to hang around waiting to see who will be next.

[FredPuli43]

What is "interesting to note" about the choice of two white female models, aog? What do you find interesting about it?

[ummmm]

Because all gang members are black....

[emmie]

perhaps they didn't want to use black models for appearing to be using a stereotype?

[emmie]

obviously not all black, but some are in gangs and sadly innocent victims of gangs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20451521

[THECORBYLOON]

There are white folk in gangs??????

[ummmm]

I was being sarcastic. Of course I know there are white gangs it's just that AOG hardly ever posts about those.

[emmie]

there may be, but look at the dead ones, they are mostly black. That includes the innocents caught in the middle.

[THECORBYLOON]

I was being sarcastic too...

[emmie]

fair bit of info, its no good some say give them lessons to save a life, seems good in principle, but you have to start at the root cause. And as this list and piece indicates it isn't always to do with deprived areas

http://www.citizensreportuk.org/reports/teenage-murder-london.html

[ummmm]

Stabbings happen all over the country that don't get reported in the papers.

[ummmm]

Lol Corby :-)