If This Had Been The Other Way Around, It

[trt]

would have been on all the TV news channels, like the one that's been going on for years!?

[murraymints]

???

[Canary42]

¿¡sɹɐǝʎ ɹoɟ uo ƃuᴉoƃ uǝǝq s,ʇɐɥʇ ǝuo ǝɥʇ ǝʞᴉl 'slǝuuɐɥɔ sʍǝu ʌʇ ǝɥʇ llɐ uo uǝǝq ǝʌɐɥ plnoʍ ʇI 'punoɹ∀ ʎɐM ɹǝɥʇO ǝɥʇ uǝǝq pɐH sᴉɥʇ ɟI

[trt]

Oops sorry, heres the link.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/606012/Alan-Cartwright-stabbed-death-teenager-found-guilty-steal-bike

[Old_Geezer]

I guess the more unexpected the more newsworthy.
Unsure what your point is ?

[jourdain2]

Very clever, Canary. Fortunately I can read 'upside down' pretty well! (Ex-teacher, if you strolled casually around the classroom you could keep tabs on what was being written)!

[bazwillrun]

Exactly...it would immeditely pre presumed as a racist murder...and the scumbag has got min 21 years..could be out when hes 40...should throw away the key

[andy-hughes]

By ‘the other way round’, do you mean a black teenager being killed by a white teenager?

This is the death of one young man and the imprisonment of another, not ‘man bites dog’.

If you think there is news mileage to be gained by inferring that the newsworthiness would be greater if the crime were white on black, then that is a strange way to start a debate.

[andy-hughes]

Bazwillrun – “…it would immediately pre presumed as a racist murder...”

By whom would it have been presumed?

[ummmm]

so every time a white man lashes out at a black man it'll be considered racist?

[EDDIE51]

He was jailed for a minimum of 21 years !! That is one of the longest terms I have seen. I can't see how the sentence would be different if it was 'the other way around'
By the way the 21 years is when he could even start to apply for parole! even at best it will be at least another 5 years more like 10 to 15.

[Orderlimit]

There would've been a lot more noise and allegations of it by the army of bloggers who have an irrational fear of racism.

[New Judge]

"By whom would it have been presumed? [to be racist]"

By Baz, or you or me or just about anybody else, Andy:

Recommendations 12, 13 and 14 (of 70) of the MacPherson report into the Met’s handling of the death of Stephen Lawrence:

DEFINITION OF RACIST INCIDENT

12. That the definition should be: "A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person".

13. That the term "racist incident" must be understood to include crimes and non-crimes in policing terms. Both must be reported, recorded and investigated with equal commitment.

14. That this definition should be universally adopted by the Police, local
Government and other relevant agencies.

"so every time a white man lashes out at a black man it'll be considered racist?"

So long as the victim, you or me or anybody else considers it so then, yes. (See above). I hope you'll find that ridiculous because I always have, ever since the report was published.

[douglas9401]

Hair trigger tonight it seems.

[ummmm]

NJ...surely that works both ways.

[DaisyNonna]

Killing is killing
What difference does it make whether they were black, white, mixed. purple or orange?

[ummmm]

The reason behind it Daisy.

[DaisyNonna]

Not a reasonable answer