Saturday, July 22, 2006

Racially motivated murder?

Should the murder of 20-year-old Shezan Umarji be considered an even worse crime if Police 'discover' it was racially motivated? His death should be treated as a tragedy, regardless of the circumstances.

Have Lancashire Police had a "two-hour meeting with leaders of the [white] community on Saturday afternoon to help reassure families living in the area" if they are not yet sure that the attack was racially motivated?

Update: Will Lancashire Police spend longer investigating Shezan's murder than a 'typical' murder inquiry as they have "declared it [] a racist murder investigation"?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Think you've totally missed the point on this one - read tomorrow's papers...

Anonymous said...

Interested to know how it's labelled a murder. Isn't bunging Racially Motivated Murder..? up a bit inflammatory before we know the facts?

Anonymous said...

Have Lancashire Police had a "two-hour meeting with leaders of the [white] community on Saturday afternoon to help reassure families living in the area" if they are not yet sure that the attack was racially motivated?

Suggests the opposite.

Anonymous said...

The white community wasnt reassured as shezan was asian and so the asian community9his family) were reassured

Snafu said...

So no chance of revenge attacks then!?!

Have Police elaborated on who were hurling the racist insults!?!