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Who do you want to declare it’s terrorism and how soon after the event?

The article says anti- terrorism police are involved in the investigation but I suspect the police will be saying as little as they can until they have all the facts. It’s only fairly recently they have started saying anything because of how quickly rumours about incidents spread on social media.

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tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’d like the usual knee-jerk declarations of “TERRORISM” by the usual lot immediatley - without any proper scrutiny and with prejudice.

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- stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Who’s the usual lot? The BBC usually sticks to reporting the facts which will be how the police designate it. You’ll notice they don’t say terrorism for the Golders Green knife attack but just report what the suspect is charged with, even though the police declared it a potential terrorist incident at the time.
  
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  - tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Two-tier reporting going on with headline-grabbing stuff like this:
    
    Daily Mail
    
    The Golders Green terrorist was stopped by heroic members of the public who trapped him with a car before helping police detain him.
    
    Daily Telegraph
    
    The suspect in the Golders Green terror attack has been named as Essa Sulieman, a Somali-born British man
    
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    The site of the terrorist incident is just a seven-minute walk from where four ambulances owned by a Jewish volunteer-led medical association were firebombed
    
    But I applaud your reticence in using the “terrorist” moniker and calling him a “topless man” instead… because he is white and clearly not a danger to other white people. I forgot “terrorists” are only brown and black people. Apologies.
    
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    stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well the mail and telegraph are shitty papers, I was confused because the article linked was a BBC one and their reporting at least tries to stick to impartial reporting guidelines.
    
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    Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Quoting two terrible news sources doesn’t help. The DM particularly is hellish, stirring bigotry throughout.
    
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