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No reaction from the residents means you're asking people to hold the moral high ground and to respect those who show no respect.
You say that both sides are spoiling for a war: who is? Those residents aren't spoiling for a war. They're defensive of an old bloke whose safety and security was shat over by a bloke who cared not one jot about the people whose house he entered.
Wait until the funeral in Orpington for the real fun to start. Let them mourn then in his home area.
Anyway.. shrines, paying respect, etc... the residents are right to remove the items from their street. Regardless of whether a man died, he would still be alive if he hadn’t broken in to an elderly mans home armed and ready.
I have little sympathy for the families loss. As a human I obviously think it’s sad that someone ultimately died in a violent struggle. But it was a scenario that he created for himself. No one forced him into that house.
We shouldn’t have to face these decisions. Imagine how the real victim (Richard Brooks) feels.... 78 years old and responsible for ending a mans life. I hardly think he’s jumping for joy about it.
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He set out to break the law and deliberately intimidate those who were less able to protect and defend themselves. He recieved what many on here would consider to be an appropriate response to his wholly illegal actions. There isn't the merest whiff of victimhood about this, had he chosen to live his life like the rest of us do, operating within both statutory and common law and within the bounds of what the overwhelming majority of people in this country would consider to be decent behaviour he would still be alive.
The only victims in his family are his children, and that's because they have been brought up in an environment in which their father's behaviour is considered to be appropriate and morally acceptable. Maybe there might be some good to come from this, that they will understand what is and is not acceptable behaviour.
As for the public grieving, it's nothing of the sort. It's public intimidation. What would be nice would be a display of flowers in memory of those killed by robbing thieving lowlifes.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
IMO it looks like they're giving that community a big ole' FU we can do whatever we want. Intimidation - yes, I think so, too.
I do feel sorry for his children's sake, but this is outrageous. No class, no shame.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
EDIT: and what happens when the state steps back from its responsibilities is it gives license to the vigilantes who think, what's the point of the police? I'll take care of matters myself.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
It's terrible, he's an elderly man who already has to live his remaining days knowing he killed someone, and now he has to sell up. None of this was his making, he simply defended his house and wife against a criminal.
So who's going to pick up the bill for the burglar's funeral, I wonder?