Incident in Water St Liverpool

The footage was taken and immediately sent to us and now we know the facts, apart from the thoughts of the driver. None of it went onto universal outlets such as facebook or youtube or X
Why, exactly?
Nobody sends me (nor would I want to receive) “footage” of such an event with potential tragic consequences.
That to me is the moral high ground, the facts, no whitewashing by government or media

Oh the irony.

None of my family, siblings and friends are speculating nor endlessly discussing. The footage was taken and immediately sent to us and now we know the facts, apart from the thoughts of the driver. None of it went onto universal outlets such as facebook or youtube or X

That to me is the moral high ground, the facts, no whitewashing by government or media

No close ups of any victims but a decent picture of the driver, obviously white male. No comment were added about culture, unlike a speculator on this thread who likes to pop up racism whenever possible, without knowing facts

Whether you like it or not, posting things like this to social media is reality now. You can choose to try to avoid things like this as much as possible if that's what you want to do, but the genie is well and truly out of the bottle now. I'm not condoning it, but how do you stop it? You can't. That's the simple fact.

I understand football, my family were at another celebration for a different club this weekend, but do they shut off the roads for the procession, or is that just impossible. Is it through all the main areas of the city and therefore wouldn't be possible to shut the roads down?

The sharing of footage takes away the privacy of those involved. It also creates a situation where the victims and their families and friends are at risk of being exposed to the images potentially repeatedly.

Liziedrip, I agree with you. It is as though people have been desensitised to the horror of what is happening now, type thing. Even on facebook there seems to be even a low level element of people 'shaming' others, posting videos of their ring doorbell footage to catch whoever - usually people drunkenly walking down the street/not picking up dog poo/parking badly/little kids just playing happily. Get a life. Either speak to that person directly and ask them to do something about or just keep your trap shut. I really, really dislike it. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

This is an awful even though. I hope all recover. The police must have been put under so much pressure this weekend in Liverpool, what with the BBC big weekend as well

Whitewavemark2

How sad that the police felt the need to emphasis the perpetrator’s colour. I understand why. But what have we got to when this is necessary?

Agreed WW.

What is happening to our society?

There’s lots of speculation going on. A medical incident like a heart attack; drunk driver in a pedestrian area; a rival fan although that seems unlikely; the driver panicked when the fans surged towards him so put his foot down to try to escape …..

Whatever, until the police make a statement speculation will continue. These days young people automatically reach for their phones and record everything.

How sad that the police felt the need to emphasis the perpetrator’s colour. I understand why. But what have we got to when this is necessary?

I accept I’m probably an outlier here. I’m not on any other SM apart from GN, and have no desire to be.

I find it difficult to get into the head of someone who witnesses a tragic event, films it on their phone … and then immediately uploads it to SM🤷‍♀️

As I say, I know I’m probably in the minority, and I’m fine with that.

I find television news very difficult to watch and generally prefer the radio.

However there is a nagging feeling that somehow we ought to see the awful scenes to feel empathy with those suffering.

My GS, who was at the parade, said it has cast a shadow over a great day for fans. He had been in Water Street but thankfully had left the area to go for his train home.

LizzieDrip

Well it shouldn’t be Galaxy.

Sadly the media has sunk to the lowest common denominator and is willing to feed to monster.

the monster

I am not sure about that. I dont know what I think about it to be honest. I think it is important for people to 'see' terrible events. We, for example saw live footage of September 11th (I am not comparing these events, I know this is not terrorism) but that was important in understanding the horror. As I say I am not sure what I think.

Oreo

It’s all over the news everywhere.

That doesn’t make it right!

Report the facts. Leave analysis of the footage (aka evidence) to the police.

It does appear from the news (mind you it was in the Mail, so who knows?) that the driver was trying to negotiate through the crowds, the crowd rightly weren't too happy and he just lost it and rammed anyone in his way. I'm sure we will hear more today of what actually happened.

Well it shouldn’t be Galaxy.

Sadly the media has sunk to the lowest common denominator and is willing to feed to monster.

It’s all over the news everywhere.

It's being broadcast on both the BBC and Sky.

Of course it’s voyeurism. Why would anyone want to watch something like that? At least leave the victims with some dignity. If (heaven forbid) a loved one of mine were hurt ir killed it would sicken me to think that people were watching footage of their suffering and passing it around on social media.

I'm referring to official reports not comments on this forum.

karmalady

Footage being shared instantly is a fact of life now, sharing information to family and friends, not voyeurism at all. Anyone from Liverpool, wherever they live now, is part of the Liverpool family and footage does not need the many words needed to try and describe the situation

Speculation comes from others, even on this thread

Well, that’s obviously your opinion Karmalady; after all you were one of the first on this thread to say you had seen the whole footage!

I’m glad I don’t exist in that murky world of sharing and / or watching footage of tragic events online, virtually as soon as they’ve happened. I do consider it voyeurism.

Why would someone who is ‘part of the Liverpool family’ want to view fellow humans being mown down by a car just because it happened in Liverpool?

The police specifically requested that people do not share footage online, but send any footage to them, as it’s footage of a potential crime, not something to be gawped at by all and sundry.

It’s horrible. Cars being used as weapons seems to be a trend. I hope it doesn’t stop street celebrations from happening. Christmas markets have been targeted too (and nobody needs to read anything into that🙄) as well as concerts and any large gatherings. Graduation ceremonies now have very high levels of security too.

Anything that involves large numbers of unsuspecting people is becoming risky. It’s a bit like school shootings in the US - very difficult to police as it’s so random.

I think it's obvious why the colour of skin was mentioned. You only have to look back at the Southport riots and how quickly a dreadful tragedy was used to spread racist hatred.
Thankfully my friend is ok and wasn't in the area but sadly there have been people including children badly injured

Back home after a night shift at work, so sad to see this incident is worse than I initially thought with so many injured people☹️
On what was a very happy day for the Liverpool fans as well.