[Angus]

Yesterday evening my son and his wife were out with their 13 month old son, it was about 7.15 pm. As they passed by a park near their house, they noticed the playground was on fire. My son pulled out his phone and rang the fire brigade having enquired of some male adults watching if anyone else had done so and being told no.

At that moment they were surrounded by a gang of about 12-15 young black teenagers, the ringleader being a girl of about 15. She started insulting my daughter-in-law, and insisting she wanted to fight her. My daughter-in-law and son tried to walk away without comment, at which point the gang followed them, the girl picking up a brick and saying she was going to hit the baby unless my daughter-in-law fought her, and the rest of the gang members kept egging her on. When my son pulled out his phone to call the police, the gang started screaming, "oh why are you picking on us, are you racist, are you? Yeah you are man." This was done at top volume, obviously for the benefit any potential witnesses to what they were about to do. Meanwhile the male adults close by said and did nothing to intervene. Just when things looked hopeless, at that moment, thankfully, the sirens of the fire engines were clearly heard fast approaching, and the gang scattered like cockroaches in daylight. It was only then that one of the male adults who had been watching asked my son if they were okay. Too little too late. So much for relying on the help of bystanders. I should mention that the male adult bystanders were themselves black, and might have had some influence on this gang if they had intervened.

Well my son did finally get through to the local police, and was met with a total lack of any sense of urgency about the incident and in fact it was even suggested to them that they must have done something to provoke the thugs - it was even being hinted that perhaps they had racially provoked them! This is political correctness gone mad where the police who are supposed to be there to protect us are more concerned with the perpetrators of violence than the victims.

Welcome to crime ridden, thug friendly Britain, where law abiding people, minding their own business, are attacked and accused of provoking the scum that inhabit our streets, to mindless violence, whilst the laughingly called "police" force do absolutely NOTHING whatsoever to protect or reassure the victims, or to track down the perpetrators.

Sorry about the length of this post, but I needed to vent, and I am still absolutely seething that these scumbags are still walking the streets to intimidate and threaten others.