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Vital Football Legend
Numerous politicians and the Lord Mayor of Dublin sending their deepest condolences to the poor lads family. I wonder if they would give 2 shits if he was a white Irish criminal. Would they fuck.
All of the idiots weighing in seem to think the gard could have shot the knife out his hand, like John fucking Wayne or someone. They think we live in a movie.
Blindboy was calling it murder and saying the Gardai could have handled it better. I always think about the Bill Burr bit where he is trying to buy a gun and the guy is recommending a shotgun because with a pistol 'you miss all the time'.
The video seems inconclusive, I think the facts of the case have to be made public. Why were the Gards involved? How long were they there? How long before they called the special unit? Why did they call the special unit? Was someone with psychological experience there?
It's kind of a box-checking exercise now and they have to be 100% transparent and extremely clear with their packaging of information. One problem they're going to have is (a) their history with travellers, (b) lack of racial bias training and (c) I highly doubt they have a team who will handle this properly. They are going to come out of scathed no matter whether it was justified or not. Irish institutions are not prepared to tackle this sort of social controversies.
The disgrace of direct provision is going always give the impression that the Irish Government is institutionally racist and that will trickle down to every state body until its dismantled.