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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.
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