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Originally posted by Evilempressrose
It is a very difficult law to enforce. It is ambiguous in it's scope. I don't think it is a question of rich celeb/poor citizen at the moment. It is a legal grey area that helps no one.
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really - lets say you and your friends are arguing with someone of asian descent in the street and there is CCTV. It shows a lot of general argy bargy, racist abuse, pushing and shoving by you and your friends of a person of asian origin... lets then assume that you all go off camera in an alleyway for less than a minute, actually its about 45 seconds,
the police arrive - the person of asian descent has had a good kicking, he's going to hospital, the police arrest you and your friends the victim when interviewed later says you all beat him up.
What do you think the chances are that you, Joe Public and friends will get convicted of assault, though the 45 second break in CCTV footage deosn;t show the actual assault, although everything else is....
and what would the chances of conviction be of....oh, lets say, off the top of my head, a couple of premier league footballers......
marks out of 10 for conviction of joe public....
marks out of 10 for conviction of footballers....