Racist Abuse posted on Essex Police Facebook page (From Southend Standard)
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Racist Abuse posted on Essex Police Facebook page
9:18am Tuesday 5th February 2013 in Southend
A TORRENT of racist abuse was posted on Essex Police's Facebook page following an appeal.
They had asked for information after windows were smashed at a mosque in West Road, Westcliff.
An Essex Police spokeswoman said: "Essex Police is very concerned at the number of racist comments posted against an earlier appeal made on Friday afternoon about criminal damage to a mosque in the Southend area."
She said they were now reviewing their policy to prevent this happening again.
She added: "We will not tolerate racist language and have passed on details of the comments to our local neighbourhood crime team. These will be reviewed and, if necessary, action will be taken against those who made them."
Comments(8)
stopmoaning1
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10:16am Tue 5 Feb 13
JuliaM
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11:19am Tue 5 Feb 13
Cosmo Spring wrote:A nice easy job, no pounding the beat in the rain - they'll love it!
get the details of the IP addresses etc from Faecesbook and nail the posters
Shoebury_Cyclist
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11:24am Tue 5 Feb 13
Echo editor, take a good long look at comments on your own website. For example the comments under this story:
http://www.echo-news
.co.uk/news/10173406
.Man_stabbed_and_rob
bed_in_terrifying_st
reet_attack/?ref=mc
emcee
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12:55pm Tue 5 Feb 13
JuliaM wrote:Depends where the servers are. If they are outside the UK (I believe they are in the US) then the police will be told to go jump, even if they obtain a court order. That is the beauty of the internet. Nobody has overall control.
Cosmo Spring wrote:A nice easy job, no pounding the beat in the rain - they'll love it!
get the details of the IP addresses etc from Faecesbook and nail the posters
Rich=Carol
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8:04pm Tue 5 Feb 13
Shoebury_Cyclist
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11:34pm Tue 5 Feb 13
Rich=Carol wrote:It's called Hate Crime, and you can be prosecuted for it.
Words do not hurt anyone especially on silly FB. People make so much fuss about things as they havnt got a life.
Lastlaugh...
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6:47pm Thu 7 Feb 13
Shoebury_Cyclist wrote:Yes it is hypocrisy by the Echo...Its editor allows racial abuse to be termed and considered free speech and defends such on this paper..
Frankly the Echo publishing an outraged story about racist comments on Facebook is beyond hypocrisy.
Echo editor, take a good long look at comments on your own website. For example the comments under this story:
http://www.echo-news
.co.uk/news/10173406
.Man_stabbed_and_rob
bed_in_terrifying_st
reet_attack/?ref=mc
Cosmo Spring says...
10:03am Tue 5 Feb 13