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My issue is, if you read back to my original posts and the thread generally (you should), the reporting of these crimes. The very mention of someone being trans, or a POC, implies hate crime regardless of circumstance.

For argument’s sake, in your entirely hypothetical scenario, what if the person being mouthy in a kebab shop were, for example, trans? The headlines would read “Trans woman murdered in kebab shop” and it would be classed by definition as a hate crime by the wider public, even if not the police...

Absolutely and amen to that.

Yes, I agree completely. I just personally find the murder of any innocent person abhorrent. A big part of it is knife crime, which is why innocent people can be murdered in an Asda car park by 15 year olds carrying kitchen knives. As usual, with sensitive subjects like this, people can become...

The murder of a child is tragic. It isn’t a sliding scale of tragedy based on what they identify as, in my mind. Hate crimes are tragic. Random attacks are tragic. It’s not a competition to decide which is most newsworthy. I don’t want news to be editorialised by trusted sources, I just want...

Harley Barfield, stabbed to death on the 9th of January.

An innocent 16 year old boy was stabbed to death the other day. Didn’t even make the news headlines with the BBC, whilst the Brianna Ghey story had three separate articles. The difference being that Ghey’s case was more newsworthy as she was transgender. Both are tragedies and deserved equal...