UK Police Say Don’t Expect Them to Release Every Suspect’s Ethnicity (Just White Men)

As Twitchy reported on Monday, a man drove his car into a crowd of revelers in Liverpool, England, who were celebrating a soccer victory. The Telegraph reports that the police quickly identified the driver as "white British."

Britain is very sensitive about protecting its "asylum seekers," and police cracked down hard on white rioters who went on a rampage after three girls under the age of 10 were stabbed to death by a British-born son of migrants.

As I reported in February, a man drove a car into a crowd of people in Munich City Center during the Munich Security Conference. It took some tooth-pulling from the German police to learn that the suspect was a 24-year-old Afghan "asylum seeker."

It's a lot like headlines in the United States; they specify if the suspect in a violent crime is a white male but suppress any other races.

I saw this headline from the Telegraph and was struck by the "unprecedented" decision to quickly reveal the nationality of the man who drove into the Liverpool crowd.

Police forces have said they will not release the ethnicity of every suspect in the wake of the incident in Liverpool on Monday
The driver of a car that ploughed into crowds during Liverpool football club’s victory parade was described as “white British” hours after being arrested on Monday.
In the wake of the Southport killings in 2024, Merseyside Police was heavily criticised for allowing a void of information about the perpetrator, Axel Rudakubana, which was filled with misinformation, including that he was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Keen to avoid a potentially similar situation, the force said Monday’s suspect was a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area just two hours after the incident took place.

Other media outlets have addressed this. The Washington Post published a piece called, "Why did police quickly say that a driver who struck a Liverpool crowd was White?" NBC News ran a piece called, "Why British police raced to release details after car plowed into Liverpool crowd." NBC News noted that "notorious right-wing voices started to call the incident a 'suspected terrorist attack' on social media." Why would they do that?

Within a couple of hours, Merseyside Police released details on a suspect detained at the scene, describing him as a 53-year-old white British male from the Liverpool area. Officials also urged the public “not to speculate on the circumstances” surrounding the incident. Within five hours, police had described the incident as “isolated” and not being investigated as terrorism-related.
The release of these details by the British police, most notably the suspect’s race, was remarkably fast.
For many, it was a sign of lessons learned after the 2024 Southport stabbing attack, in which the same police force was pilloried for not sharing enough information soon enough and allowing rumors to run rampant. In this vacuum, speculation turned into calls for action, which soon bloomed into racist riots that rocked Britain in the aftermath of the deadly assault that killed three young girls, with more injured.

It's the Norm MacDonald bit again. Imagine the backlash if an Islamic extremist drove his car into a crowd? It's important not to fuel Islamophobia, especially in the U.K. and Europe, where they've imported massive numbers of Muslim "newcomers."

So we're not supposed to expect the release of every suspect's ethnicity, unless it's a white male?

The Southport riots in the U.K. are a bit like January 6 in the U.S. At last, it wasn't a Black Lives Matter riot — it was white Trump supporters who got out of hand that one time, and we'll never hear the end of it.

White person = confirmed within the hour

Any other ethnicity or if Muslim = hours to days to confirm
— Charlie (@ghost_motley) May 27, 2025

Only when the perpetrators are white British people. All others are exempt. What message does that convey?
— Lalith ramachandra (@lalithramachan1) May 27, 2025

They are deliberately fuelling animosity and resentment. It almost feels deliberate, but hopefully it's down to stupidity and ignorance.
— Andrew Fair (@andsjam) May 27, 2025

They're acknowledging two tier condemnation will be applied and acting accordingly.
— Lupin (@Lupinistic) May 27, 2025

They call him "two-tier Keir" because, as our own Amy Curtis reported in March, Starmer said that white men were going to face harsher sentencing:

“White men are going to be treated a lot tougher by judges from Tuesday, compared to other groups.” Starmer

RIP UK. There is no coming back from this.

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— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) March 28, 2025

Especially if they're caught with anti-migrant memes on their phones.

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