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I never have trouble with the traveller types in my place, usually friendly and polite (although tbqfh, some of them I can't understand a word they're saying). But there aren't a HUGE number of them (a couple of families) and also... They know they'll get kicked out in a second and they need their Roulette fix, so perhaps on their best behaviour.

I can see both sides of this really. The guy who was killed was indeed pretty much a "scum bag" if such terms must be used, or at the very least engaging in some very scummy activity and no one can really be all that SURPRISED or angry that he ended up getting himself killed. That's pretty much how it goes if you choose to be a career criminal. You end up in prison or dead. However, he wasn't exactly a serial killer or "monster", just a crappy and immoral person, so I fully understand that his family will be devastated and grieve for him. He may well have been a loving father/son/friend... People are complicated. Suggesting that they shouldn't grieve, or shouldn't want to, is insane.

However... There's no need at all for this display of grief to be put on in the street where he was terrorising an elderly couple and got himself stabbed. You could argue that they didn't realise it was inappropriate... If they had just done it once... But at this point, the display has been taken down multiple times, but they keep putting it back up. They clearly know its causing upset and distress. Maybe it didn't start out as threatening or conflict driven, maybe they really didn't understand that it would cause conflict and are now feeling defiant and persecuted... But at this point it definitely is conflict driven and intended to prove something. If I lived there, I would definitely be concerned about the possibility for it escalating.