Grenfell Tower bonfire: Five men arrested over video

[jack_spratt]

A video shared on social media shows a cardboard model of the tower being set alight by a laughing crowd.

The Metropolitan Police said the men - two aged 49 and the others aged 19, 46 and 55 - handed themselves in at a south London station on Monday night.

Prime Minister Theresa May had called the video "utterly unacceptable".

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"But there is a worrying rise of racism in this country at the moment. And that is concerning, because it's now starting to impact on us directly, which means that we actually need to be thinking what we do about this, and how we respond to this as a whole."

Natasha Elcock, from Grenfell United, said: "Not only is it extremely upsetting to survivors and people who lost family, it's hateful and offensive to everyone that has been affected by the tragic events of that night."

Under the Public Order Act, racially or religiously aggravated offences carry a prison sentence of up to two years, a fine or both.

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[jack_spratt]

Its now become blatantly Orwellian in the UK now.

 

[ponder]

This is just stupid. In bad taste yes but criminal? people of all sorts died in the fire so making it about race or religion is pathetic.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

This is just stupid. In bad taste yes but criminal? people of all sorts died in the fire so making it about race or religion is pathetic.

snowflakes has to get offended,

 

[ForceFate]

snowflakes has to get offended,

Then Trump et al are the worst snowflakes...

 

[ponder]

Then Trump et al are the worst snowflakes...

I still don't get how this is criminal. If you did the same in the us with the twin towers in the us or incidents in other countries it's gonna be in bad taste and there will be public condemnation but to be criminally charged would be absolutely absurd.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

I still don't get how this is criminal. If you did the same in the us with the twin towers in the us or incidents in other countries it's gonna be in bad taste and there will be public condemnation but to be criminally charged would be absolutely absurd.

snowflakes will get offended you said merry Christmas, but didn't include another obscure holiday like Kwanzaa.

 

[Cray]

Monumentally bad taste sure, but against the law?

The men have been arrested under section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986, which covers intentional "harassment, alarm or distress" caused via the use of "threatening, abusive or insulting" words or signs.

???

 

[Cray]

As the blaze takes hold, a voice can be heard to say "All the little ninjas getting it at the minute" while the camera focuses on a paper cut-out with a face covering.

Eish, that's a bit harsh..

 

[ForceFate]

I still don't get how this is criminal. If you did the same in the us with the twin towers in the us or incidents in other countries it's gonna be in bad taste and there will be public condemnation but to be criminally charged would be absolutely absurd.

Maybe preempting a protest?