The victims were children and a muslim turned up at the vigil with a knife.
Have we got that confirmed yet? I've seen the photos, that he had priors and was on probation, that he was involved before the riot kicked off but I've not seen a name yet. Which I really want so I can try to find what his prior convictions were for since I suspect someone who rocks up to that sort of vigil to threaten people with a knife is pretty damn rancid.
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And instead of watching a thread derail into British people struggling to say "a bottle of water", I would love to see takes on why THAT stabbing was the event that brought down the white man's fury for an evening or two.
Honest answer? Everyone who bought into "muh fair right" being behind these riots might as well believe everything the BBC writes from here onwards because it was a complete fiction.
It was a warm week. Southport was rammed and even post stabbing all sorts of people continued to head there to enjoy the nice weather by the sea. The vigil went as expected and seems to have been fairly calm. The rioters were involved with what happened after and many were the sort of people who turn up to a vigil with booze in hand and will only get more drunk from there. If they had not found a mosque they likely would have targeted something else.
Kier shrieking like an offended toddler after the soft touch used on Leeds or Rochdale when the same happened there inspired some people to organise actual protests over the weekend but those were actual protests and mostly ended long before the people that remained kicked off with the police. Again, same sort of people as kicked of on the Southport one or, if you want to draw a comparison on the other side of things, the many BLM protests that were entirely peaceful and others were largely the sort of people Rittenhouse ran into. They came to the place with booze in hand and would have ended up fighting with one another without other targets. The pissed up gay couple from Liverpool are a prime example. They wandered out of bingo drunk and looking for more booze, bumped into people agitating the police and thought "this looks like fun." The far-right made up maybe 5% if that of these groups and were not really organisers save for likely leading many chants.
Monday things wound down heavily because people had jobs. Tuesday almost nothing happened but suddenly all the news was talking about hundreds of far-right demos on Wednesday. Which basically failed to manifest as various NGOs, charities, government groups and the police claimed victory over protests that were largely invented by them.
This was not the white man's fury. This was a small number of people upgrading their usual batch of weekend violence to do it in a more organised fashion, a larger number of well-intentioned people trying to do actual protesting around them for a brief period over the weekend and then very little else.
