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@bozzalad | 23 September 17 | |
When the facts came out, the killing of a Polish man had nothing to do with anti-immigrant feeling Nothing spoke of the fractious atmosphere in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum more than the death of 40-year-old Arek Jozwik in a shopping centre in Harlow, Essex in August 2016.James OBrien, an LBC radio talk-show host, declared that certain Eurosceptics had blood on their hands as did anybody who has suggested speaking Polish in a public place is in any way undesirable. This was the premise of almost all reporting on the story: a man seemed to have been murdered for being Polish. |
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@bozzalad | 23 September 17 | |
The killer, a 16-year-old, was sentenced to three years detention for manslaughter. The court ruled he threw a punch which caused Jozwik to fall to the ground and sustain fatal head injuries. Rightly, his violence has been punished, but was it an unprovoked hate crime? It emerged from the case that there was a racial element to the incident although the racism was not aimed at Mr Jozwik. On the contrary, the court heard it was Mr Jozwik and his friends who made racist comments against the then 15-year-old and those he was with. As the defence counsel put it: They made racist remarks to the youngsters, then invited violence from them, and they were considerably bigger and stronger than the young people.
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@bozzalad | 23 September 17 | |
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/09/when-the-facts-came-out-the-killing-of-a-polish-man-had-nothing-to-do-with-anti-immigrant-feeling/ So what about the great surge in hate crime that was reported after the Brexit vote, of which the death of Mr Jozwik was said to have been part? In October last year, the Home Office reported a spike in reported hate crimes in the July 5,468 of them, a 41 per cent increase on the same month in 2015. Quoted in a Guardian article which carried a photograph of Mr Jozwik. since it was first introduced as a category of crime five years ago. In 2013/14 there were 44,577 hate crimes, followed by 52,465 in 2014/15 and 62,518 in 2015/16. Interestingly, the figures have spiked in July each year, perhaps as people take advantage of long evenings to spend more time on the street. If Britons have been becoming more hateful over the past few years it is a trend which began long before the EU referendum. |
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@bozzalad | 23 September 17 | |
An alternative explanation is that there has been an increase in reporting of this type of crime owing to the publicity given to it, aided by the somewhat loose official definition: any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic. In other words, for a hate crime to be recorded no one has to prove that a crime was motivated by hate on the grounds of race, nationality, sexual orientation or so on mere perception is enough. |
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@bozzalad | 23 September 17 | |
there was the abusive graffiti which appeared on a Polish cultural centre in Hammersmith. This produced understandable horror and a local MP, Greg Hands, underlined that Poles are welcome. Only later did it emerge that the graffiti read fu*k you OMP OMP being a Polish centre-right think-tank which had backed Brexit.
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@wakeup4 | 23 September 17 | |
Colin firth becomes an Italian citizen because of brexit what a bell end
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@dodgey | 23 September 17 | |
@ wakeup4 - 23.09.17 - 06:36pm Colin firth becomes an Italian citizen because of brexit what a bell end He will regret that move in a few years lol of all the countries to choose from |
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@eyesore | 23 September 17 | |
sound's pretty smart to me. Gets to be a citizen of the EU and the UK
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@wakeup4 | 30 September 17 | |
Brexit transitional period unacceptable, says new UKIP leader http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41453943
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@silverjx | 30 September 17 | |
@ eyesore - 23.09.17 - 07:11pm sound's pretty smart to me. Gets to be a citizen of the EU and the UK Rash or political motivated....hes a millionaire celeb. Traveling and living in different countries is a lot different between them and the normal person. Take Beckham, considers himself British but won't do charity work in this country because if he spends too long in the country he gets taxed. What would be the advantages of having a eu passport for firth? |
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