Il preside ha rimosso la parola “sinistro” dal piano educativo dell’assassino di Southport, Axel Rudakubana, dopo che gli operatori di salute mentale l’hanno accusata di profilazione razziale di “un ragazzo nero con un coltello”

Anyone carrying a knife should be considered problematic, sinister perfectly acceptable there

Sounds like those mental health workers should be held to account for failing to do their job properly.

Maybe prison time or large fines for those most closely linked to the perpetrator and shown to fail in their responsibility and preventing these kinds of attacks?

> Axel Rudakubana was enrolled at The Acorns School, in Ormskirk, Lancashire, aged 13, after being expelled from mainstream education for taking a knife into classes.

> Headteacher Joanne Hodson told the public inquiry investigating his crimes that, from his first day, she realised the teenager was ‘very high risk’.

> In an email to all her staff, she said Rudakubana needed to be regularly searched for knives because he hadn’t displayed any emotion or ‘remorse’ and was ‘very high risk’.

> However later, Ms Hodson said, she agreed to remove the word ‘sinister’ and comments referring to Rudakubana as ‘cold and calculating’ from an education plan after mental health workers accused her of racially profiling ‘a black boy with a knife’.

> She said the criticism ‘shut her up’ and ‘closed her down professionally’.

> Ms Hodson described a ‘memorable’ first meeting when she asked Rudakubana why he had taken a knife into his previous comprehensive.

> ‘He looked me in the eyes and said ‘to use it’,’ she said. ‘This is the only time in my career that a pupil has said this to me or behaved in a manner so devoid of any remorse.’

Basically it seems like the guy had a very clear mental health disorder and should have probably have been in some kind of controlled institution but the impetus for action was blocked by the naivety of professionals, in being able to see the risk, in their general attitude towards control or incarceration, and in being able to judge the individual regardless of his racial background. The professionals who operated without those ideological blinkers were shut down for not operating within the accepted ideological structures.

Alongside also the money saving ideology of the state, given how many of these institutions were shut down with no adequate replacement.

How many other kids have brought knifes to school but it’s been ignored because it’s racial profiling

Idk calling a child “sinister” doesn’t seem helpful. That doesn’t mean you can’t deal with them if you really feel they are concerning without basically calling him evil. I mean at that point they didn’t know he would do what he did and unfortunately many kids have been caught carrying knives without going on to do what he did. 

> However later, Ms Hodson said, she agreed to remove the word ‘sinister’ and comments referring to Rudakubana as ‘cold and calculating’ from an education plan after mental health workers accused her of racially profiling ‘a black boy with a knife’.

Yikes. Every time something like this happens there’s always a long list of people who had a chance to make a difference but didn’t, or worse, prevented others from taking necessary steps to avert disaster.

The troubling thought is that there may be many more cases like this. Even one case like this is infinitely too many.

Do other people also get a momentary pang of joy when the source turns out to be what they thought it would be from the headline alone?