Video shows woman shouting abuse at two Muslims on London bus
Video shot by a fellow passenger shows a woman, who is accompanied by a child in a pushchair, shouting abuse at two Muslim women. She repeatedly calls the Muslim women “Isis bitches”, telling them to “go back to your country”. She shouts at the Muslim passengers: “Talk your fucking language. Keep laughing. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. With your bombs hiding underneath your clothes. I don’t fucking like you people because you’re fucking rude. You come to England and you have no fucking manners. Go back to your fucking country where they are bombing every day, don’t come here where we are free.” A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan police confirmed that transport officers were investigating allegations of a racist incident on a bus as it travelled through the north London borough of Brent on Tuesday morning. She said: “We are aware of it and are looking into it.”
This article shows how citizen journalism is becoming embedded in peoples lives. This is as it shows how if there is a problem or injustice, people are compelled to get their smartphones out and record or photograph the situation. In this case, there is footage of a woman shouting racial abuse towards the couple of muslim women. If citizen journalism and user generated content was not available, this incident wouldn't have been investigated by the police. This therefore shows how citizen journalism helps bring justice in everyday lives. But also it also shows how society has taken this responsibility to record or photograph events that are newsworthy or examples of injustice.
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Personally, I don't have a Twitter account but I totally understand how it can be a very convenient medium in accessing the latest news. As well as the instantaneous news updates, Twitter provides users to connect with people with the same beliefs, interests and opinions just as easily. Twitter can update users with just about any news from sport results to political debates so there is no doubt that Twitter is a very useful tool for news. However, in terms of sociability, Twitter is often disregarded and Facebook is much more favoured as said in the comments of this article.
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