An asylum seeker intervened in the Bondi Beach terror attack but was shot at by police and attacked by members of the public.
New video footage from the scene shows the man climbing the stairs to the bridge where the two gunmen lay injured after being shot by police marksmen.
The member of the public is seen kicking a weapon away from the terrorists – but police continue firing at the bridge, causing the man to duck for cover.
As police close in on the injured gunmen, the refugee is then challenged by members of the public, who mistake him for a terrorist.
Ooh I wonder that ethicity he was and what ethnicities the “members of the public” were.
Like half the comments in this thread so far are you pushing race war shit, fuck off dude
What’s the real race war? Making random snarky comments on Lemmy or literally attacking a guy trying to save you because he fits the collective description of a “terrorist,” or defending those attacks as an “inevitable” part of saving people when it’s clearly been shown it’s many times more likely to happen to ethnicities perceived to be more likely to be terrorists?
Are all the large scale studies showing that police/the public in white majority countries are much more likely to assume a non-white person is a perpetrator whenever any attack on the public happens also pushing race war shit? You can’t imagine how this could have possibly played out differently if the guy wasn’t Middle Eastern “like the terrorist who shot at us?”
The “us vs them” perspective you’re pushing so hard here is the root cause of racial conflict. What happened to this guy was both tragic and unfair. You are not helping.
If this is genuine, please touch grass. If not, please fuck off. Either way it’s poison I’m not going to engage with further
Again, the “assuming you’re the bad guy based on your ethnicity regardless of what you did” part has been shown to actually happen to non-white people much more frequently than white people in white majority countries. And by “lesson learned” I was referring to the fact that this is something many people will inevitably think after seeing a story like this even if they don’t say it, though I should have made that more clear.
I admit I was too snarky/aggressive/us-vs-them with my wording, I see your point there and deleted that comment as I no longer wish to say those exact words. But, is the fact that THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS not a bigger problem that plagues society than how politely people articulate it? How about we work on not having this happen or at least not having it be more likely to happen to certain ethnicities than others so no one makes those comments again instead of dismissing it as the person who points it out needing to fuck off? Do the people responsible for causing this racial injustice not also have the responsibility to contribute to mitigating it in the future?