It's a Congolese cluster-fuck the size and scale of Bertie Ahearn's whoppers and mince pies.
I bet up and down the country there's gang-loads of new arrivals sharpening their kirpans and slavering at the video attached. The gang-load of security personnel who chased him down held him pinned to the concrete for nearly five minutes. Body holds, feet being kneeled on, neck being kneeled on - his whole head too - and you can assume that by the end of it he was already dead. The carting him off to hospital and pronouncing the death from there is just a flower show in early summer.
You could single out any forty-five seconds of the various choke holds they all had him as being the beginning of his demise and the end of his life.
Two meters away there's a pensioner on the ground with a gang around him too, though we're not as yet privy to what exactly happened there, apart from him getting barged into and his hip broken either with the impact of the thirty-five year old 'computer programmer' slamming into him, or else when he hit the concrete. Either way, he was carted off to surgery and we all hope he gets back on his feet after his misfortunate luck in being in precisely the wrong place at the wrong time. Probably shopping for new socks, the poor auld fucker.
Mental all the same that the shoplifter's age is claimed to be thirty-five.
He looks much older than any thirty-five year-old I've ever met, but sure it's be racist to claim otherwise, no?
If he's really a computer geek, what the fuck was doing shoplifting in Arnott's anyway?
They have a bargain basement, I used to swing by most visits home for Irish items to take home with me.
Security up the arse, on every door, on every side, and there are quite a few entrances/exits spread out across at least three busy streets.
I'd imagine Bertie's feeling a bit less embarrassed about getting caught out mouthing off against the Congolese in general, and he's probably even writing up a new response to have ready should anyone happen to ask him if he feels any responsibility about Ireland's Congolese immigrants getting an unfair deal in this exact manner. Does he think that the goons did their job or did they kill the poor shoplifter deliberately?
At the end of the video, they all seem a bit confused with the body lying there all limp and face down in the dirt.
Did they clock that they'd done a George Floyd on him or did they think he was faking it?
Five minutes of being held down by brute force featuring at least five goons isn't a good look for the Ireland of the thousand welcomes.
Looked to me like it was at the four minute mark when he started kicking out the death throes: so it took around thirty seconds for him to die breathlessly.
High price to pay for whatever shit he was nicking, even higher price for the innocent old man with the hip operation.
So now you have a dead Congolese male lying in the morgue, and a few dozen more of them holding a vigil on the spot where he died even as I write.
Kind of sad that the old man is nothing more than small beer collateral in all of this: he was entirely innocent and I hope the bleeding hearts keep him in mind when they start castigating anyone and everyone for this outright racist killing, as they seem to want to frame it. George Floyd's already being bandied about, but I also saw George Nchenko's name being tossed in for good measure. That kid who hacked up a shop assistant's arms and was followed home to his front garden by the coppers, who eventually shot him down while he was waving his (culturally appropriate) machete around like a lunatic. Only it turned out he was actually a bit touched, shall we say.
