Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss for a mob

Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss for a mob

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anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Not much to add to this other than it is a very shocking attack.

BBC News - Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss on London bus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555...

Kawasicki

13,041 posts

234 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Bonkers, sickening.

Gareth79

7,628 posts

245 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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I'm surprised there hasn't been any CCTV released, it has been a WEEK. Was it broken or is it one of the cases where they will release crystal clear images in six month's time when everyone has forgotten about it?

zygalski

7,759 posts

144 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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The brunette reminds me of Jennifer Connelly.

don'tbesilly

13,900 posts

162 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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cookie118 said:
Not much to add to this other than it is a very shocking attack.

BBC News - Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss on London bus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555...
Horrific, my son told me about it the day after it happened, he knows a freind of one of those attacked.

tleefox

1,110 posts

147 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.

But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.

More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.

MikeT66

2,680 posts

123 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.

But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.

More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Possibly, but I'm not sure I can think of anything that could happen on a bus whereby the beating of two women is justified.

Piha

7,150 posts

91 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.

But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.

More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Can you expand a bit more on your feeling?

Escy

3,907 posts

148 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.

Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.

Integroo

11,574 posts

84 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.

But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.

More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
What exactly do you think could have happened such that four men beating up two women on a bus is acceptable?

Integroo

11,574 posts

84 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Escy said:
The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.

Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
Eh? How on earth did you arrive at that conclusion?

Anyway, even if she did go over and confront them, that's well within her right after getting homophobic and misogynistic abuse and coins chucked at them. That doesn't mean its her fault if they then get assaulted.

Nexus Icon

535 posts

60 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.

But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.

More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
Your opinion is not a good look, and I think you're wrong, but then I didn't imagine that actor bloke in America would pay a couple of guys to help him fabricate a racial/homophobic assault.


Labradorofperception

4,640 posts

90 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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[quote=Escy]The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.


Maybe she expressed her fear through the medium of interpretive dance, that's more likely than your suggestion a 7 stone woman went toe to toe with a bunch of fecktartds on a bus late night in London.

The CCTV is probably being held back by the police for a number of reasons.

Piha

7,150 posts

91 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Escy said:
The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.

Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
Go on then, provide something that backs up your claim that the blonde women started the physical violence and shows the 2 women deserved a beating from a group of men who could have walked away from the violence the blonde women were giving the men.

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Technically this isn't a 'homophobic' attack.

p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Escy said:
The story doesn't cover the bit between the throwing of coins and the physical violence. Reading between the lines, i'm going to suggest the blonde women started the physical violence. That's probably why the CCTV isn't available.

Those responsible are obviously idiots, hope they get done.
How on earth did you come to that?

You could have just as easily said 'I think a giant panda got on and threw the first punches' or literally anything else that could have happened but you have zero evidence for.

p4cks

6,885 posts

198 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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I'll wait to see the CCTV before I make any conclusions, as at the moment I'm a little sceptical about it all

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Shocking.
And why no descriptions of the attackers apart from their accents?

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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tleefox said:
Ok, I'll bite and I'll caveat it by saying that if their account of what has happened is true, then it is terrible and has no place in modern society.

But something about this incident and how it is being reported don't sit right with me - one of those "feels like there's more to it than we're being told" cases.

More than likely I'm wrong, but that's my opinion at the moment.
You'd be amazed what people do in a mob and others will watch.

Saw an Indian woman being abused on the tube a few years back by a group and no one did a thing.
Well other than me, I went and sat with her and talked to her and basically showed the aholes abusing her she wasn't on her own.

It probably helped that I'm 6'3" but still amazed no one else did a thing

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Friday 7th June 2019
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Piha said:
Go on then, provide something that backs up your claim that the blonde women started the physical violence and shows the 2 women deserved a beating from a group of men who could have walked away from the violence the blonde women were giving the men.
Perhaps he means this

"The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus fighting with them. On an impulse, I went over there only to find her face bleeding and three of them beating her up.