Monday, January 31, 2011

The men were all white and in their early 20s

The news that a man was attacked leaving him with head injuries after he tried to stop three others throwing rubbish around early one morning is saddening. Trying to do the right thing resulted in him being punched and kicked in the head near the Abode Hotel in Manchester at the weekend.

What caught my eye from the news article was the line I used as the title. How often do you read about violent attacks and the ethnic background of the suspects is not mentioned?

3 comments:

James Higham said...

Precisely. The radical Muslims must have been off doing something else that day.

cutthroughthecrap said...

It strikes me that they mentioned the ethnicity *because* it is so out of the ordinary.

JuliaM said...

Check out the 'Bournemouth Echo' - they've been gagged by local magistrates and police from reporting on a Kurdish disturbance. Very strange decision.