The long read: More people have been imprisoned for rioting during a single day in Bristol in 2021 than in any other protest-related disorder since at least the 1980s. What was behind this push to prosecute so harshly?
You made up a scenario that’s not in the article to justify the 14 years someone is losing from their life.
Nope. If you you simply use Google you can find the information with a little comprehension and reading.
He was convicted of attempted arson with intent to endanger life for trying to set a police van alight.
Roberts was also found guilty of attempted arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered, for trying to set a second police van alight with seven officers inside.
He told an officer inside one of the vans he would “go bang”.
And if you don’t like the BBC (because I’m guessing it’s “the biased state media arm of the British government” 😉) here’s the Guardian on the same hearing.
The 25-year-old, who had taken cocaine and been drinking, then smashed windows of the police station, Bristol crown court was told.
Roberts, of no fixed address, was also caught on film pushing pieces of flaming cardboard under two police vans and placing industrial bins around an already partially burnt-out police car and setting them alight. He told an officer inside one of the vans he would “go bang”.
He smashed in the windows of a mobile police station and encouraged the crowd to help roll it over, before setting light to the cab while hundreds of people were close by.
If you support a just society you can’t also support harsh sentencing with the purpose of “sending a message”.
Harsh sentencing is pretty subjective. Your harsh is another’s fair. You simply aren’t the arbiter of that because you weren’t the judge doing the sentencing at the trial. He or she doesn’t pull sentences out of their arse, there’s sentencing guidelines they need to follow.
Nope. If you you simply use Google you can find the information with a little comprehension and reading.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-59705203
And if you don’t like the BBC (because I’m guessing it’s “the biased state media arm of the British government” 😉) here’s the Guardian on the same hearing.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/17/ryan-roberts-bristol-kill-the-bill-protest-jailed
Harsh sentencing is pretty subjective. Your harsh is another’s fair. You simply aren’t the arbiter of that because you weren’t the judge doing the sentencing at the trial. He or she doesn’t pull sentences out of their arse, there’s sentencing guidelines they need to follow.
Anyway it was fun chatting to you. ☺️