| Comment | That is a very good point, although it doesn't quite relate to the point I'm trying to make. I was responding very specifically to this:
*"I wouldn't expect the police to be doing much about this kind of behaviour, as most of them exhibit same behaviour during the football season for a specific club in Glasgow. If you need a large reference to this look at the Manchester final a while back."*
This sentence implies that a) the police force exhibit the same behaviour as fans of a certain football club then b) ties that behaviour to the shame of Manchester and c) since it was Rangers fans in Manchester we can only assume that u/partofthehumanrace genuinely thinks that our police are thugs because they are Rangers fans.
I didn't want to get too far into a response, so I thought a polite request to not bring football into an issue that relates to institutional racism might be helpful. It doesn't matter what football team these thugs support, what matters is their values and principles.
Which is unfortunate, because I strongly agree with what you're saying and think that the police could and should have handled the situation better. They may have gone into it with the wrong perspective and that perspective may have hampered their efforts to keep people safe. |
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