My god. The inanity of this. Journalists are so conditioned to blame pedestrians for their own murders, that they'll even use it to soften terrorism.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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I think the wording is more down to not knowing the circumstances at this time. Obviously people would be in the street celebrating, but it's not been confirmed if this was deliberate or some sort of medical episode. Expect the language to change when this becomes clear.
The point is that "car drives into pedestrians" and "a vehicle struck several people" completely ignores the driver operating the vehicle.
"We would ask people not to speculate on the circumstances surrounding tonight's incident on Water Street in Liverpool city centre," a police spokesperson said.
I think it's so they don't focus on the attacker, because the public goes nuts after these things.
The public rightly so should go nuts at these kind of things. Cars are dangerous.
They would be going nuts on scapegoat minority, not a car.
Going nuts asking for better protections from cats.
Exactly. Unless this is a self-driving car, I don't want the driver absolved of the responsibility.