Detectives from Greenwich CID have released CCTV images of a man and a woman they want to speak with in connection with the incident which occurred at around 6.20pm.CID..? For a dropped glass bottle..?
Detective Sergeant James Bray said: "We are keen to speak to the people in the picture. Anyone with information should come forward to assist us with our enquiries."
What is the world coming to? How can they possibly have time for this sort of…
Oh. I see:
Officers were called at 8.01am yesterday to a glass bottle smashed on the Stephen Lawrence memorial plaque on Well Hall Road, Eltham.Say no more!
No doubt the Farce will be providing the COMMUNITY with access to trauma and grief counseling...to help them come to terms with this vicious racially motivated assault.
ReplyDeleteSo a smashed bottle gets police attention.
ReplyDeleteA completely smashed graveyard with stones going back years is just a procedural error at the council.
Niiiice.
Canonisation is only a matter of time away ...
ReplyDeleteHoly schamoly - desecration of a sacred place.
ReplyDelete'We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph'
The sherrif is a n*DING*r!
ReplyDeleteAs someone who worked on that borough, the plaque is almost sacred and subject to 24 hour CCTV surveillance. Given what it is and who it is for and WHAT it represents for da communitee I am not surprised at the police reaction, there would have been a borough 'Gold' group meeting set up, community leaders and independent advisory group members would have been told as would St Doreen and St Neville. If the slightest hint that DEFCON 1 had not been immediately declared there would have been a mighty huffing and puffing and all sorts of threats and discipline offences discussed PLUS the local boro commander would have had to self flagellate publicly in the Well Hall Road while his SMT rolled down the hill naked over broken glass. It has happened several times before, a local mong who has littered has ended up on remand for weeks before being properly dealt with. I'm surprised there isn't a pilgrimage route between the sites of all the deaths of promising architects and footballers in South london. Harsh I know, but all this pisses me off.
ReplyDeleteA colleague of mine used to work on Greenwich borough and he was alerted one night by the CCTV operator to a passer-by taking a bunch of flowers off this plaque.
ReplyDeleteHe stopped the person who took the flowers who was an American tourist staying nearby and he didn't know this was a memorial and just thought the flowers had been left behind randomly.He had never heard of Stephen Lawrence.
My mate told him off and returned the flowers which seemed sensible.
He called the result in as above.The duty Inspector went mad at him and ordered him to return and arrest the tourist.
My mate stood his ground.(You cannot be ordered to arrest anyone by a senior officer).
After much to-ing and fro-ing the Inspector backed down.
Oh did I mention the PC was also black?That might be significant....
Jaded
An inanimate object cannot be threatened and it does not appear that damage was caused, so - racially aggravated dangerous litter?
ReplyDeleteQuick, throw some money at the ker-moo-nitty! Make it stop!
ReplyDelete@ anonymous/jaded
ReplyDeleteIf that's true (and I can believe it) we all might actually have a future.
Heart warming.
Thanks
Just remind me again, precisely what it was that Stephen Lawrence did .. for either his "community" or the nation, in general .. to justify such publicly-funded close protection of a memorial to him ?
ReplyDeleteBecause, to the best of my knowledge, none of the War Memorials to the millions who died in two World Wars & since, in the service of their country enjoy such lavish protection ..
Just remind me again, precisely what it was that Stephen Lawrence did .. for either his "community" or the nation, in general .. to justify such publicly-funded close protection of a memorial to him ?
ReplyDeleteHe's Da Unknown Race Warrior, innit.
Have some respec', bro.
"A completely smashed graveyard with stones going back years is just a procedural error at the council."
ReplyDeleteQuite!
"As someone who worked on that borough, the plaque is almost sacred and subject to 24 hour CCTV surveillance."
*boggle*
"He had never heard of Stephen Lawrence."
Oh, would that we were all so lucky...
"...so - racially aggravated dangerous litter?"
Don't give them ideas!
"He's Da Unknown Race Warrior, innit."
SNORK!
Actually, on any thread about this case, you'll get people who claim that - contrary to the popular myth - he wasn't as pure as the driven snow. You have to be quick to read them, though, they are invariably zapped by the mods.
Surely the shrine was erected to mark the exceptional circumstances of his death : a young black man NOT killed by another young black man ?
ReplyDeletedid I mention the PC was also black?
ReplyDeleteIf that was the officer who dealt with the incident, he showed more sense than his governor, then.
Tourists are paying guests and they make honest errors; the last thing anyone needs is an incident with the US Ambassador in a huff over the treatment of a US national who meant no offence. He saved his fatheaded inspector from a kicking.
"Tourists are paying guests and they make honest errors; the last thing anyone needs is an incident with the US Ambassador in a huff over the treatment of a US national who meant no offence. He saved his fatheaded inspector from a kicking" ...
ReplyDeletePerhaps that's what's needed to put an end to this costly & uneccesary lunacy ..
The point of my telling that story was that had the PC not been black his feet wouldn't have touched the floor.
ReplyDeleteVery good comment by Nuff respect though!
Jaded
Apologies - I hadn't realized it was as bad as that.
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