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Swedish police failed to pursue hate crime expressed on Twitter showing how toxic the Swedish police system is rife with institutional racism

Friday, 19 July 2013
A little five-year-old Somali girl dies and a man goes of the micro blogging site, Twitter and expresses joy of the death of the little girl. Then the Police is informed, they check the site and see the racial incitement and stay quiet and did nothing.
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Swedish police going hard on a protesters - Note: this image in unrelated to the story
Even though this was reported to the police several times, and in which the police acknowledged it to appeared to
be a case of incitement to racial hatred, they did not pursue an investigation, reports Radio Sweden.
The girl died by a lake in western Sweden earlier this month and the police suspect she may have been murdered.
In response, a 50-year-old man tweeted a link to an article about the case, along with the comment: "And! That's one less Somali in Sweden...Yes."
Bernt Zarnowiezki, a department head of the Greater Gothenburg police, told Radio Sweden that an investigation was not pursued since it was not possible to identify the suspected man because Twitter's server is located in the United States.

However, Radio Sweden was able within minutes to establish that the person, whose name was already known, is a man who is 50 years old and lives in Nykvarn, east-central Sweden.
Talking of police being institutionally racist, try Sweden and see in practice the definition of racial bias in the law. As institutional racism stands, such a case would never have been ignored in places such as the UK. Take for example, football player Patrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch and somebody twitted racially changed message on Twitter and within minutes the British police got him. He would be later found guilty and sentenced to jail.
Last Saturday we all saw how in the USA  George Zimmerman was acquitted after he shot and killed 17-year-old black youth, Trayvon Martin in February last year. Zimmerman claimed self-defence, and the court agreed with him. We all watch how there after, there were cried of racism in the American justice system, we felt that such things don't happen to use here. Here we are.
By Scancomark.com Team



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