{"id":384528,"date":"2018-11-10T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-governments-crocodile-tears-over-burning-of-grenfell-tower-effigy-backfire\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T14:36:52","slug":"uk-governments-crocodile-tears-over-burning-of-grenfell-tower-effigy-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-governments-crocodile-tears-over-burning-of-grenfell-tower-effigy-backfire\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government\u2019s crocodile tears over burning of Grenfell Tower effigy backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK government\u2019s crocodile tears over burning of Grenfell Tower effigy backfire<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Millions were sickened by a vile video of a group of backward racists burning an effigy of Grenfell Tower on bonfire night, November 5.<\/p>\n<p>The cardboard model had cut out paper figures with brown faces, looking out of the tower windows, with the perpetrators making derogatory comments about Grenfell Tower residents. As it is set on fire, one participant is heard saying, \u201cHelp me, help me!\u201d and \u201cJump out the window!\u201d Another says to laughter, in a reference to the failed \u201cstay put\u201d policy of the fire brigade, \u201cStay in your flat, we are coming to get you.\u201d In a reference to a woman wearing a niqab, one states, \u201cThe little ninja is getting it at the minute,\u201d Another comments, \u201cThat\u2019s what happens when they don\u2019t pay their rent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the video was circulated privately among those involved on WhatsApp, but soon ended up being posted on social media and going viral where it provoked widespread anger and condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>The faces of many of those involved are seen in the video and five men from south and south-east London handed themselves in to the police on Monday night. Another man, aged 19, was arrested Tuesday after attending a south London police station. All six were arrested and charged on suspicion of a public order offence before being released under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the abhorrent nature of the video, it is not clear that the perpetrators have committed any crime. Arrested under section 4a of the 1986 Public Order Act, a defence against prosecution can be made if the accused were inside a dwelling and had no reason to believe what they did would be heard or seen by people outside the dwelling.<\/p>\n<p>It has since&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/10\/gren-n10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK government\u2019s crocodile tears over burning of Grenfell Tower effigy backfire By Robert Stevens 10 November 2018 Millions were sickened by a vile video of a group of backward racists burning an effigy of Grenfell Tower on bonfire night, November 5. The cardboard model had cut out paper figures with brown faces, looking out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}