Posted on 03/27/2024 1:04:19 PM PDT by grundle
A security guard had a “bad feeling” when he saw Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi but did not approach him for fear of being branded a racist, a public inquiry has heard.
Kyle Lawler said he was stood 10 or 15ft away from Abedi, who had been reported to security by a member of the public who thought he looked “dodgy”.
The Showsec security guard, aged 18 at the time of the terror attack, told police in a statement read to the inquiry sitting in Manchester: “I felt unsure about what to do.
“It’s very difficult to define a terrorist. For all I knew he might well be an innocent Asian male. I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race.
“I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble. It made me hesitant.
“I wanted to get it right and not mess it up by overreacting or judging someone by their race.”
Around five minutes later, Abedi got to his feet and walked across the room towards the crowd emerging from the arena at the end of the gig at 10.31pm.
He was smiling, the inquiry heard, seconds before he detonated his home-made rucksack bomb, packed with thousands of nuts and bolts, murdering 22 bystanders and injuring hundreds more.
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Remind me not to hire an 18 year old civilian as a security guard at an event. That fear of being branded a racist far overpowered his important gut impression that the guy looked dodgy.
Most 18 year olds today are either fully saturated with that fear of being called a racist, or filled with the desire to root out, expose, and punish anyone who THEY think might be a racist.
mission accomplished, Khan & Co.
That’s ridiculous. He should also be charged with the deaths. If you can’t do the job you are paid for, you should quit. So what if he was called racist. Many lives could have been saved. If he wasn’t trouble, he’d be criticized but big deal.
At least he was doing part of his job. Had he seen a suspicious white man, he'd have intervened.
Keep in mind that this is the UK we’re talking about, where being “racist” is a criminal offense. The guard was, IMHO, fully justified in his hesitancy, and the prevailing conditions that engendered that hesitancy, as well as the deaths that resulted, can be laid squarely at the feet of the UK government.
Yes, the people pushing this “racism” crap and criminalizing it are the ones that should be prosecuted.
I think it is easy to criticize, but I think that when your life would be made over because you made a mistake, with the best of intentions, most of us would be hesitant as well.
Ate you so pure hearted that you are willing spend the rest of your life in prison for being suspicious of a non white person, but were wrong?
I doubt that, like most people, they would do anything if it means criminal charges for making a mistake.
Charging him with the deaths is ridiculous.
“So what, big deal” says anonymous guy on couch.
The left is unquestionably morally responsie for this.
“If you can’t do the job you are paid for, you should quit. “
No one takes “mall cops” seriously. They’re not decoration, exactly, but more like hall monitors in grade school. If something happens, they call the real cops. If you see an older man as a security cop, he isn’t usually that much more proficient than your typical 18-year-old. He’s somebody who couldn’t get a better job.
I worked for Honeywell at a defense plant of over a million square feet. We had, I want to say, Guard’s Mark for Security. Snappy uniform. Typically, in their twenties. About three o’clock in the morning a husband showed up in the lobby with a pump 12 Guage. His wife was at that moment bumping uglies with a coworker in a van outside. He racked a round into the gun and said to the guard, “Where’s Lola?” The guard said, “Beam 32 J.” He didn’t even lie. My takeaway from this is a security guard without a gun is only good for giving directions. (He hotfooted it to another plant and called the sheriff and deputies arrested the cockled husband. The company fired both wife and coworker, a first for that timeframe. Normally, they would only fire the woman.)
Members of official grievance groups are like the lords and ladies of bygone days. A member of an inferior class should think twice before daring to accuse one of his betters, let alone get in their way.
As an aside I heard a “come visit Manchester” commercial on the radio today. Their list of attractions wasn’t very persuasive …and bombers too!
Same for the San Bernardino massacre a few years back. suspects acted suspicious but neighbors did not report them fearing being called “racists”. Then they shot up the Inland Regional Center killing 15. And then they got a nice secret moslem funeral. Should have been fed to the hogs.
He probably would have been arrested for complaining. I know in Germany if you make any complaint against a rapefugee you can be arrested.
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