Coulter’s Law applies again: The longer we go without being told the race of the killer, the less likely it is to be a white male.
Ann Coulter’s Law was originally formulated in response to official and media cover-ups around mass shootings, but it applies to other crimes of violence as well. The Kansas City shooting committed by “young men” of no particular description, or the home invasions and gang-bashings across Australia perpetrated by “youths” of no particular description. Even when police are actively searching for suspects, they refuse to divulge what one would think was fairly useful descriptive information.
In the latest case, an horrific mass-stabbing attack on a dance class full of parents and children in Liverpool.
Two children have died and several others remain critically injured following a knife attack on a Taylor Swift-themed children’s dance class in Southport, Liverpool.
Armed with a knife, the youth repeatedly stabbed child after child, and two adults who were believed to have been trying to protect them. The ferocity of the attack would leave the emergency services staff who attended in tears.
Footage of an individual, seen wearing a hooded top, pacing around in front of a house that was later raided by police in Southport was shown on ITV News on Monday evening.
The footage in question was as blurry and useless as most CCTV footage, especially given that the suspect was wearing a hoodie and mask.
Two things quickly became obvious, though: police were strangely determined to emphasise both that they weren’t treating the attack, at this point, as terror-related, and that the attacker was “born in Cardiff”. Other than that, all that they’d give out was that it was a 17-year-old male.
So, why the emphasis on the suspect’s UK birthplace? If you’re thinking what I’m thinking, you’re right.
It took a bit of digging, but one media outlet let this slip:
The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons and is originally from Cardiff, in Wales, moved to the Southport area with his Rwandan parents when he was aged six.
The attack was shocking in its scale and brutality.
A member of Hart Space staff rushed to the scene after the stabbings. She said: “There were probably 25 children there because that’s the max we have there and they had reached the max.
”I don’t even know if the teachers are OK. When I got there, there was a guy who was absolutely distraught, in a mess. He’d seen two children run out and he thought they had got hit by a car because the car was just full of blood at the side. But it was actually that the children who had been stabbed had fallen into the car.”
‘They were injured, bleeding … in the road, running’
Bare Varathan, 35, who owns a corner shop on Hart Street, said he was called by a staff member who told him: “Boss, get to the shop!”
He said: “I saw seven to ten kids outside. They were injured, bleeding. They were in the road, running. They had been stabbed, here, here, here, everywhere. (Varathan indicated the neck, back and chest). They were all aged about ten. One of them was really seriously injured […]
At the scene, emergency services staff who had treated children at the scene were in tears. Firefighters and ambulance crew sat on the ground, head in hands.
But, apparently according to media and officialdom, it would be an even worse crime to tell the whole truth about the perpetrator.
As the girls of Rotherham and Telford learned, in the worst possible way.
