Whilst I am sure
@Randy is a great guy and posts things without an underlying agenda since Covid and the dubious sources he referenced I always have a look behind what he is linking before making judgement.
The account linked is pretty horrible. It has an underlying racist tone and the stuff on there is obviously posted with an agenda.
The tweet says
"It's happening" - so what is actually happening? It looks like non white people being violent on the street and if Randy is to be believed is happening all over London as the
"Met police have lost control of the streets of London again". I am not sure that this is the case based on one short clip from Twitter.
A few tweets down is this explainer:
So if this is to be believed (we can't confirm or deny but it seems reasonable - more reasonable than the initial video anyway) there was a group of Anti-Iranian regime protesters and the guy being attacked supported the regime and went there to stir up trouble at a peaceful protest. Where have we seen this before? It's Tommy Robinson tactics. Insert the violent mob into peaceful protest and then the whole lot get branded as violent.
So what actually happened? Looks like a protest got out of hand as feelings are very high. I don't see any evidence of the streets of London being out of control - I see evidence that the Met could have done with a few more officers there but I can imagine they didn't expect the peaceful protest to turn like that.
Violence is abhorrent in all forms and the protesters shouldn't be beating up on that guy or attacking the police - that is bang out of order.
An interesting video but it doesn't appear to show what Randy is implying and so I feel it's a bit irresponsible to post with no context. What it certainly is doing is trying to whip up hate against Iranians and immigrants.
Randy - I am not digging at you, I think you are a good lad and have good intentions. I just wish you would look into what you were viewing a bit more. It's a worry that you have found this account and are reposting the hate on a friendly forum which is very anti-racist. It's not often we have violent videos linked on here.
I post this with the best of intentions Randy