• tetris11@feddit.uk
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        22 hours ago

        The news is complicit here too.

        BBC news: “Is your local phone shop guy part of an international criminal gang network? Let’s hunt him down on the street and ask him in whatever broken english he has.”

        Meanwhile, a guy is actually walking around with a machete at the hospital near my work because he came to finish off a guy he’d wounded earlier (I shit you not). Not even a mention. A small clipping in a local newspaper.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Your purse was stolen? We’ll get two experienced yet flawed detectives on it with a full forensic science lab.

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      1 day ago

      And no one is suspicious if I sit in a car outside their home for 7 hours. Eventually crawling away with a tyre squeal.