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Was this a racist attack?
Stabbed To Death For Being A 'Chav'
Murder's hit the headlines only a few miles from home, as a 15 year old was stabbed to death for apparently being a Chav in Totton, near Southampton.
Monday February 5, 01:32 PM
The family of a schoolboy murdered after allegedly being called a "chav" have spoken of their devastation. Dele Little, 15, was stabbed near a Tesco store in West Totton Shopping Arcade, Hampshire, on Saturday evening. Police are investigating eyewitness reports that he was called a chav by a woman before he was attacked by a man who rode up on a motorcycle. Full story here.
As much as I loathe the repugnant 'Chav' movement that's created monsterous role models like Jade Goody, picking on somebody for the way they look - however they look - is horrible. Ironically, it's more the sort of crime in which you'd expect a Chav to be the perpetrator, not the victim.
I'm interested in how the police and media handle this. Was it a 'racist' attack? Certainly 'Chavs' aren't a race... But they're a very real and identifiable group. Sadly, though, I don't think the Hampshire Constabulary will handle it any differently to a normal murder. The victim was white - and apparently white people cannot be the victims of hate crimes.
This fifteen year old was murdered merely because he was a 'Chav.' And if that's not a hate crime, I don't know what is. I hope the police treat the murderer like the bigoted thug he plainly is and punish him just as harshly as if he'd shouted out abuse at a black person and murdered them because of the colour of their skin.
That'd be true racial equality.
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