Published 19 August 2024 at 17.17
Foreign. A man from Lincoln, England, has been sentenced to three years in prison for posts he wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in connection with the race riots in Great Britain, BBC News reports.
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The riots in England were, among other things, a reaction to the fact that the British justice system is considered to have double standards and sentence white criminals of opinion more harshly than non-white violent criminals.
The summary judgments issued against people who allegedly instigated the riots are now considered to confirm the suspicions of so-called “two-tier policing”.
Wayne O'Rourke, 35, of Lincoln has been sentenced to three years in prison for posts he made during the riots on his X account with more than 90,000 followers. Among other things, he is said to have spread the false news that the murder of the three girls in Southport was a terrorist act carried out by Muslims.
In the trial it was also revealed that the 35-year-old should have urged the residents of Southport to take to the streets during the anti-immigration demonstrations. His posts reached 1.7 million views and, according to the right, helped spark the violent unrest that broke out in several places in the country.
To prove O'Rourke's criminality, examples of comments he wrote were taken:
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“Starmer has basically said it's us against them. Hold the line,” he wrote in one post.
Other wording read “numbers matter” and “give them hell, lads “.
Judge Catarina Sjolin Knight thundered that O'Rourke was not only influenced by the actions of others, but actively incited hatred and violence through his posts, writes BBC News.
She called him for a “desk warrior” who helped whip up the moods.