I see a crime has been reported in Kilkenny this morning and the Gardai are looking for a white male in his 40's with an Irish accent. Is this a new era of policing or is it just because it's a white Irish male with an Irish accent they are looking for, I've never seen this used in the last 20 years since PC arrived on these shores. I welcome it if it's how all future crime is reported and not just those by white males with Irish accents.
“The male is best described, at this time, as a white male in his 40s with an Irish accent.”
https://www.thejournal.ie/kilkenny-johnstown-assault-5669479-Jan2022/
“The male is best described, at this time, as a white male in his 40s with an Irish accent.
https://www.independent.ie/news/another-horror-story-shock-as-young-woman-17-escapes-after-attack-by-man-while-out-running-in-kilkenny-41296798.html
Gardaí say the man who assaulted the girl after approaching her at the scene is "best described, at this time, as a white male in his 40s with an Irish accent".
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/0131/1276921-kilkenny-assault-garda/
The initial person that was wrongly arrested, they gave no skin, accent or race descriptions out for either person they arreseted.
Irish accent is just as vague, as we've many of them, and our communities aren't all natives to the area. And you latching onto half of the argument, while ignoring the other half about skin color. You'd never see: a crime committed by a black man, a brown man, or any other similar variant.
The actual killer or the fella that was arrested and released because it wasn't him?
They had 2 eye witnesses who gave the description of the killer in that case.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that a critical difference is the fact that the victim in this latest case is alive (thankfully) and therefore able to give some details like skin colour and accent unlike the previous case where all they had (I'm assuming) was a piece of the culprits clothing that was torn off in the struggle.
It’s the truth.
That's some pretty desperate straw grasping.
Fcuk it if it means we can have Wendy’s
There really are some thickos on this site. It’s not some big brain conspiracy to keep the Irish man down by the PC police. The people looking for this attacker need to be as definitively specific about the characteristics of the person they’re looking for, without leaving any opportunity for misinterpretation.
The reason why they can only say that the person had an Irish accent is because only an Irish person can definitively say that.
For example, let’s imagine that the culprit was from Ghana. Most Irish people can’t tell the difference between African accents, but “with an African accent” is too vague so they have to omit it lest people start hassling Nigerians, someone from the Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, and so on.
Similarly if the suspect was from Latvia. Most Irish people couldn’t tell a Latvian accent apart from other Eastern European accents (in fact I would wager the vast majority of people would assume he was Polish) but “he had an Eastern European accent” is too vague and too loosely defined to be of any use. So they can’t use that either.
Alternatively someone born and raised in Ireland can tell an Irish accent apart from any other country’s accent without any difficulty or ambiguity. It’s an accent everyone from Ireland would be attuned to.
To be fair: "White male in his 40s with an Irish accent" doesn't exactly narrow it down much. Especially as people are usually very bad at guessing one's age to within 10 years.
He could be in his 50s. Or 30s.....just to be unkind.
Remember one like that too, just said what he was wearing and not much else.
They found him dead in the canal a few days later, picture and name got put up later.
It's obvious the white man no longer has the whip hand in Ireland! I'm moving to Rhodesia before it's too late!
Coulter’s Law
[kohl-terz law]
Published November 11, 2018
WHAT DOES COULTER'S LAW MEAN?
Named after a 2015 tweet from provocative conservative political commentator, Ann Coulter, Coulter’s Law states that the longer it takes the news media to identify a mass shooter in the United States, the less likely it is to be a white male.
We really need to get the Yanks to make us an American state, as we're all but one now.
Surprised they'll even assume the culprits gender at this stage.
World has lost it's mind.
no you didn't
I'm going to out on a limb and say the reason they dont give out details that would significantly reduce the number of suspects is precisely because some internet sleuths would believe that it just has to be the Nigerian guy they saw earlier in a tracksuit, so its better to beat the crap out of him now rather than inform the police and let them do their job
Don't they usually attach photos to such descriptions?
I remember a teenager went missing around the Blachardstown area a few years ago. Age, height, clothes, runners, were given. They were afraid to say that the kid was black.
Well that narrows it down to 32 counties. 'dey didn't say which accent. I think it could be my neighbour, same age profile, born and raised in Belgium and speaks fluent Dublinese without a hint of a regional Flemish accent (not that I can tell the difference between regional Flemish and Dutch accents.)
Not really, youths is a catch-all phrase for delinquents. As for the question itself, the description is odd but it may be aiming to head off the leap to the furriner did it, as with that Romanian man they mistakenly picked up for the Tullamore murder.
So can we take it now that the guards will be issuing these descriptions from now on (when they have details to give)
No one is charged here though because the person has not been caught. Just like the attacker wasn't caught the other week yet all we got was a grey tracksuit description! And that was a murder case ffs.
I admire you sticking to the playbook even when the double standards are so glaringly obvious.
Did they assume the perpetrators gender?
Suspect is hatless. Repeat: hatless.
If there was no description of the attacker then there would be immediate assumptions of who they are on here.
Before any of the bedwetters start, no not everyone, but some.
Whenever someone from a different country is charged, there is very much usually a description of where they are from if they aren't from here.
As fear of discrimination on any grounds whatsoever becomes complete the description given will be “attacked by human being”… except maybe if it were eg, a dog attack and the animals rights brigade come on board (and I’m an animal lover) it will be “attacked by non-flora species”.
Its alright Joe, but you will see that I have responded further in the thread. When Anewme's post originally displayed on my laptop, it contained a lot more than it does now. So I reported it. But now the post no longer contains the offensive comments, and there is no 'edited' highlighted on it. So I'm assuming its a technical glitch of some sort . I'm going to see if I can retrieve my Report and add that to it.
I'm not getting into tit for tat with you here.
Someone last week started a thread on Ashling and actually mis spelt her name. Now you got mixed up with where actually happened. It does come across as careless and your apology read a bit oh well, by putting the County in Caps, as if it does not matter. Not sure if thats what was meant, but it certainly reads that way.
Well now, that's definitely a case of cowardly reporting.
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