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Originally Posted by Chris
For sure. BBC talking head last night suggested that the authorities had ‘perhaps learned something’ in being quick to give those details. However, if they were hoping to avoid a race riot, then the only way of dong that would have been if they had been able to say the man they arrested was white British. If he had been any other ethnicity, would they have released that information? In Southport, if the police had confirmed what people thought they knew about Radukubana’s ethnicity, would that have stopped racist assaults on mosques etc, or would it have emboldened those engaged in it to do more?
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I think they released it because, as you say, they knew it would calm things down. There were already the usual social media rumours about the driver's ethnicity, so they wanted to stop it quickly.
But they've made a rod for their own backs now because if they don't release the details next time, people will make inferences about what that means.