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George Nkencho shooting *Mod warning Added to OP*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭corks finest


    amacca wrote: »
    How long are they going to wait to report on the incidents that happened after George Nchenko in Blanchardstown?


    Im sure they will be along any minute now to tell us about the gang of black youths shouting they hoped white bastards would die? or the gang that went through the shopping centre etc

    Then again I'm sure they wouldn't tell us about it if roles were reversed right?

    We need gardai supported here up front from our lackeys in Leinster House, instead of the usual ostrich head in the ground attitude


  • Posts: 19,174 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Posting videos online do not assist gardai or any investigation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Damn, this thread is long. How many times have people suggested they should have shot the knife out of his hand?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    I have zero time for Sinn Fein in fact I strongly dislike them. I've just seen the local TD Paul Donnelly has a pretty lengthy statement on SF website which seems decent enough as he appeals for calm and calls out the disgraceful scenes in Hartstown/Blanch "protests"

    sinnfein.ie/contents/59305

    I can't post links but if you put www. before above

    Teachta Donnelly said: "I want to extend my condolences to the family of George Nkencho. This is a desperately sad time for his family, friends and community.

    “My thoughts are also with the workers in SuperValu, including an employee who was hospitalised following the incident, as well as emergency services at the scene who have also had a very traumatic experience.

    “I am calling on all community leaders in Dublin West to appeal for calm and to allow the GSOC to establish the facts in relation to the entire incident.

    “While I understand that emotions are high, there is no excuse for some of the scenes that we witnessed in the Blanchardstown shopping centre and Hatstown shopping centre where people were verbally abused, physically assaulted and threatened by sections of the protestors.

    “There are also videos of individuals at a public protest openly threatening Gardaí and in particular the Gardaí involved in the incident. These threats are to be utterly condemned. People are entitled to protest but where protests become intimidating or contain threatening behaviour that is inexcusable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Kimbot wrote: »
    Well in fairness the facts are there for everyone to see

    1: this man robbed a shop and attacked a man with a machete.
    ...
    Those are the facts of the situation and our national broadcaster are a shambles at reporting it as what it is and that is blatant thuggery.

    Have you an official source for this bit? When you're talking in facts it's good to be able to back them up with evidence.

    Edit: also for the robbing bit, was anything taken or did he attempt to take anything? Haven't heard anything official apart from the assault and threats.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭corks finest


    bubblypop wrote: »
    Posting videos online do not assist gardai or any investigation.

    Yes but too late now as usual as what's app videos etc won't stop anytime soon, ppl are gone loopy videoing every drama, case in Cork City before Christmas of a young woman struggling to survive in the Lee after jumping, and instead of helping over a dozen muppets just stood watching the drama unfolding and and videoing it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    bubblypop wrote: »
    Posting videos online do not assist gardai or any investigation.

    Maybe not, but they bring oublic attention to stories which the media have abdicated their responsibility in reporting. See my previous post.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,058 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Have you an official source for this bit? When you're talking in facts it's good to be able to back them up with evidence.

    Edit: also for the robbing bit, was anything taken or did he attempt to take anything? Haven't heard anything official apart from the assault and threats.

    Will you go away out of that, are you now trying to say that a man didn't get his face slashed by the little runt...... Its all over all the reports the man was hospitalised with a slashed face and I have seen the photos of the damage. George hardly went to the spar armed with a weapon just for a laugh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,195 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Kimbot wrote: »
    Well in fairness the facts are there for everyone to see

    1: this man robbed a shop and attacked a man with a machete.
    2: guards were called and tried to settle the situation
    3: when the guards couldn't resolve it they called a specialist team who escalated up to lethal force
    4: the man who had the machete is dead and now not so peaceful protests are been conducted in the local area intimidating and attacking innocent bystanders.

    Those are the facts of the situation and our national broadcaster are a shambles at reporting it as what it is and that is blatant thuggery.
    TheChizler wrote: »
    Have you an official source for this bit? When you're talking in facts it's good to be able to back them up with evidence.

    Edit: also for the robbing bit, was anything taken or did he attempt to take anything? Haven't heard anything official apart from the assault and threats.

    You need to get your story straight.

    Are you accepting that the store manager was assaulted with a weapon and ended up in hospital?


  • Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A Jamaican living in Dublin speaks out:



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  • Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Nehemiah Stocky Nature


    Kimbot wrote: »
    Will you go away out of that, are you now trying to say that a man didn't get his face slashed by the little runt...... Its all over all the reports the man was hospitalised with a slashed face and I have seen the photos of the damage. George hardly went to the spar armed with a weapon just for a laugh.

    No, you haven't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭GarIT


    kowloon wrote: »
    Damn, this thread is long. How many times have people suggested they should have shot the knife out of his hand?

    Once I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    A Jamaican living in Dublin speaks out:


    Promoting crime and disorder.
    A real addition


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭phonypony


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Have you an official source for this bit? When you're talking in facts it's good to be able to back them up with evidence.

    Edit: also for the robbing bit, was anything taken or did he attempt to take anything? Haven't heard anything official apart from the assault and threats.

    It doesn't help that the thread title after three days still reads "shop thief..."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    Kimbot wrote: »
    Will you go away out of that, are you now trying to say that a man didn't get his face slashed by the little runt...... Its all over all the reports the man was hospitalised with a slashed face and I have seen the photos of the damage. George hardly went to the spar armed with a weapon just for a laugh.

    No he didn't get his face slashed, what you saw was social media fakes.
    He was punched to the ground and beaten with fists, and then had a large knife pulled on him. He has broken bones in his face as a result.
    This is bad enough, without making stuff up.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,058 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    strandroad wrote: »
    No he wasn't, what you saw was social media fakes.
    He was punched to the ground and beaten with fists, and then had a large knife pulled on him. He has broken bones in his face as a result.
    This is bad enough, without making stuff up.

    Well what I seen wasn't on social media, to me it looked like a slash to the side of the man's mouth but with so much blood around it then it's possible he was only beaten and not slashed. Regardless the little runt went to the shop and attacked someone while in possession of a dangerous weapon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Paul Donnelly TD calls for calm following protests in Dublin West
    1 January, 2021 - by Paul Donnelly TD


    “Finally, I am asking the community not to share any videos or websites that are attempting to increase tensions in our community. They must not succeed with their racist agenda.”


    Decent until the last paragraph, what racist websites? Why not share the video, because it absolves Gardai of anything wrong?

    If there was anything in this the same types would be posting the video everywhere. He had a machete and attacked armed Gardai FFS

    He's obviously pointing out the very apparent stoking of racial tensions by actual far-right and racist groups but he has yet again, unfortunately shown the total turgidness of politicians and media in absolutely not calling out what happened across Blanch in the aftermath of a criminal being shot and killed truthfully as what it was and is - racism.
    I doubt very much he is calling out the respectable modern 'left' & academic racists (white and non-white) who hold influence and are showing their blind support for the 'right kind of racism' quite publically.
    It's the old untruth that non-white people cannot possibly be racist which is the lynchpin of a very foolish ideology.
    So, Paul fails the truthful test.


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Imagine going to that EuroSpar every other day for years , or SuperValu as it was before, for things like milk, bread, meats or whatever and having the chats with Mary on the tills or Shane on the butcher counter or your neighbour Rita doing her bits n bobs and just generally immersing yourself in your local community. Perhaps sticking up or responding to those little ads about guitar lessons or GAA raffles they have at the entrance.

    Now imagine going and finding yourself barricaded in this shop you’ve visited for years because a group of marauding dirtbags decide you deserve to die because of your skin colour.

    Then not one media outlet covers it.

    It’s absolutely shocking.


  • Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭ Landyn Famous Pimple


    A Jamaican living in Dublin speaks out:


    Clown. Priveleged, oppressed yada yada. All the buzz words and excuses. Couldn't watch anymore than 2 minutes.

    This guy has a real hatred of the country. A lot of anger in his comments and voice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    kowloon wrote: »
    Damn, this thread is long. How many times have people suggested they should have shot the knife out of his hand?

    fiddy hundred


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,244 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    A Jamaican living in Dublin speaks out:


    Youtube seems to be the modern equivalent of "paper never refused ink".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Teachta Donnelly said: "I want to extend my condolences to the family of George Nkencho. This is a desperately sad time for his family, friends and community.

    “My thoughts are also with the workers in SuperValu, including an employee who was hospitalised following the incident, as well as emergency services at the scene who have also had a very traumatic experience.

    “I am calling on all community leaders in Dublin West to appeal for calm and to allow the GSOC to establish the facts in relation to the entire incident.

    “While I understand that emotions are high, there is no excuse for some of the scenes that we witnessed in the Blanchardstown shopping centre and Hatstown shopping centre where people were verbally abused, physically assaulted and threatened by sections of the protestors.

    “There are also videos of individuals at a public protest openly threatening Gardaí and in particular the Gardaí involved in the incident. These threats are to be utterly condemned. People are entitled to protest but where protests become intimidating or contain threatening behaviour that is inexcusable.

    You left off the bit where he called anyone sharing the video or reporting on the actions of his brother racist.

    "Finally, I am asking the community not to share any videos or websites that are attempting to increase tensions in our community. They must not succeed with their racist agenda."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,995 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Imagine going to that EuroSpar every other day for years , or SuperValu as it was before, for things like milk, bread, meats or whatever and having the chats with Mary on the tills or Shane on the butcher counter or your neighbour Rita Doug her bits n bobs and just generally immersing yourself in your local community. Perhaps sticking up or responding to those little ads about guitar lessons or GAA raffles they have at the entrance.

    Now imagine going and finding yourself barricaded in this shop you’ve visited for years because a group of marauding dirtbags decide you deserve to die because of your skin colour.

    Then not one media outlet covers it.

    It’s absolutely shocking.

    Yes, and it appears this mob went about their business unchallenged by law and order..

    And some people are ok with this..

    Lame and pathetic excuses like “don’t give the mob attention.”

    This, while ordinary members of the public (men, women and children) are smack bang in the middle of an unruly mob...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Mules


    I've been impressed by the reaction from fine fail representatives and pleasantly surprised by the reaction from sinn fein representatives. Some fine fail councillors have openly described the protests as intimidation. I suppose fine fail aren't exactly known for wokeness :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    GarIT wrote: »
    You left off the bit where he called anyone sharing the video or reporting on the actions of his brother racist.

    Didn't see that bit. If he did say it then his whole post is more of the same capitulation esqe rubbish


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Didn't see that bit. If he did say it then his whole post is more of the same capitulation esqe rubbish

    I edited to add it in, the last paragraph, I think you stopped 2 or 3 short. There was another calling for calm and then what I quoted above.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭soiseztomabel


    A Jamaican living in Dublin speaks out:


    This guy is aware that the majority of the media are framing it in his favour yeah?

    That an attack by a black kid on a white kid was shouted down as simple “assault” rather than racially motivated, but now is claims a case of assault that subsequently led to a death of a poc is now racially motivated rather than a last case scenario.

    Fan the flames all you want homeboy, you’re about forty and probably still session with and dress like people half your age.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭GarIT


    blanch152 wrote: »
    You need to get your story straight.

    Are you accepting that the store manager was assaulted with a weapon and ended up in hospital?

    Plenty of reports saying he was assaulted without a weapon and the store manager managed to run away while George was pulling out the weapon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Kimbot wrote: »
    Will you go away out of that, are you now trying to say that a man didn't get his face slashed by the little runt...... Its all over all the reports the man was hospitalised with a slashed face and I have seen the photos of the damage. George hardly went to the spar armed with a weapon just for a laugh.
    Initial reports said the knife was produced from a pocket after the assault, someone on Facebook who works in the shop and claims to have witnessed it said he was punched and the knife appeared after. I'm not taking that claim as 100% true yet but there's more going for that course of events than the "slashed with a machete" version. At best all we can say is we don't know, anyone not involved who claims to know better with no evidence is BSing IMO.

    BTW that picture you claim is the guy in Dublin has been widely debunked as someone in the UK after a football related incident. The Dublin guy is (wisely IMO) not publishing his injuries online.

    I'm automatically suspicious of the intentions of people adding embellishments without evidence, especially when attempting to paint the narrative in one direction. That goes for the extremes on both "sides". It's bad enough without having to exaggerate.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭corks finest


    GarIT wrote: »
    Plenty of reports saying he was assaulted without a weapon and the store manager managed to run away while George was pulling out the weapon.

    Does it matter? Intent was there


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