[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Ammi

....I think that even if I were the parent of the person who was stabbed, I don’t think this would be something that should in any way be accepted and I would find it very upsetting...to cause such trauma on a child and on a family would only make the whole thing worse...and obviously I wouldn’t accept it if it was my partner and child cycling along the river and this happened...I can’t imagine how many cyclists there are in that type of surrounding in daylight hours...it wouldn’t be an ‘unusual sight’ to see a young cyclist ...so what happened cannot be felt acceptable without very specific reasoning beyond ‘a young black lad on a bike’...and atm it’s very difficult to see what that specific reasoning would be when it’s also being said that there was speed involved because it was a cycling event...this is why BLM is so important because none of us should accept a family having to experience something so terrifying when the only reasoning appears to be that they were cyclists and cycling in an area where cyclists will be a common sight...

The biggest tragedy is that someone was STABBED...seems to be completely igniored on here. God forbid the police trying to apprehend someone who answers the description of the attacker and trying to prevent someone else getting stabbed.