Boy, 13, dies after car and sword attack in Hainault

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1. Two civilians and two Police Officers also in hospital from the attack.

   Absolutely tragic.

2. People are being very annoying about this. If he was a brown man running around yelling “Do you believe in Allah” this would be a terrorist attack, not mental health problems.

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4. Imagine how many comments there would be if he was black/Asian.

5. Prime example of why we need to arm officers in this country. How many of these injuries & sadly, a death could have been stopped if these officers had a sidearm?

6. We jump to conclusions quicker and quicker every time 

   Your reaction time doesn’t change what happened 

7. That footage seems bonkers to me, 4 unarmed police officers trying to coral the guy into a corner and he just takes off when at least 1 side arm could have ended it in seconds.

8. It’s things like this that generally make me want to give up – genuinely can’t we just be done with religion and do the Agnostic thing and solve a lot of the worlds problems as a result. Religion seems to just cause grief. This whilst looking like a mental illness issue (and where do you just get a sword?, buy it on Amazon or something?) has to be labelled (it would appear) as domestic terrorism I feel?

9. Just another day in London? Seems like there is a child killed everyday in London am surprised parents aren’t fleeing the country

10. Just seen the footage of the boy being killed on IG and dragged aeound in the street, pretty harrowing stuff. Bodycam footage is now on IG as well from one of the officers showing him climbing on garages into people’s gardens. What the fuck was going on in his head?

11. Can’t be questioned by police due to injuries received. It’s unfortunate that after being tazered he fell down a flight of steps, three times.

12. People being political saying “see, he’s white, immigrants/ religious extremist aren’t doing all of it”

    Please stop, he’s clearly of arab lineage.. note the facial features and beard. and Fyi, there are white muslims that exist*