Criminal culture and social media?

Sugar_Rush · 02-10-2023 11:14am #1

It seems there's this emergent phenomenon of the criminal classes perpetrating crimes, then posting about it on social media.

Mostly it's riding motocross bikes through housing estates, destruction of property, theft, joyriding, drug sale and use etc.

But when it comes to actual violent crime, that's the one that real elicits that feeling of nausea.

In addition, the video was posted from the point of view of slandering foreign nationals, when it's clear the actual intention was to glamorize the violence being committed.

https://twitter.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1702767739843080303

As you know (or maybe you don't know), deaths by way of such attacks are not even remotely uncommon, attributable to head trauma when an unconscious individuals lands on hard ground....... as happened here.

So, a punch from a blind angle rendering the target unconscious, then landing on a marble floor;

I would actually be surprised if some kind of brain injury wasn't sustained here.

But the sickening part is, posting about it on social media, as if to gloat?

And of course, almost a certainty there was no criminal repercussion.

And we wonder why Irish criminal culture is as prolific as it is?

Allinall · 02-10-2023 11:15am

And you just re-posted that video on social media.

You're part of the problem.

ghostfacekilla · 02-10-2023 11:16am

We photograph and video our lives in this era of humanity, whether our lives contain crime or nauseating photos of the carvery on a Sunday.

banie01 · 02-10-2023 11:18am

Emerging?

It's been common since camera phones appeared. Bebo and every nascent social media site were rampant with it. From showing the bling and accoutrements of Crime, to video of Limerick feen playing Russian roulette with a semi-automatic handgun🤦(Guess how that ended up), all living long in the digital memory of the internet.