{"id":592757,"date":"2021-07-15T19:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T23:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=592757"},"modified":"2021-07-15T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T23:06:38","slug":"police-make-arrests-over-online-racist-abuse-aimed-at-englands-black-soccer-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-make-arrests-over-online-racist-abuse-aimed-at-englands-black-soccer-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Make Arrests Over Online Racist Abuse Aimed At England\u2019s Black Soccer Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-make-arrests-over-online-racist-abuse-aimed-at-englands-black-soccer-players%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=592757&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233970683.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Just a few days after three England soccer players were subjected to racist abuse online \u2014 including monkey emojis, slurs and taunts \u2014 British police have arrested at least four people for \u201chate crimes\u201d in connection with the online messages.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Sunday, England lost in penalty kicks to Italy in the Euro 2020 final. <\/span><span>England was hoping for its first major international championship since the 1966 World Cup, but once again fell short.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After extra time, Italy and England were tied 1-1, but Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukaya Saka \u2014 who are black \u2014 missed their penalty kicks for England.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/uk-police-arrest-four-over-racist-abuse-england-soccer-players-2021-07-15\/\">Reuters<\/a>, the three black players were \u201c<\/span><span>targeted with racist abuse on social media sites Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The online abuse was quickly condemned by the English soccer team and England\u2019s soccer governing body, the FA.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe FA strongly condemns all forms of discrimination and is appalled by the online racism that has been aimed at some of our England players on social media,\u201d the FA statement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAspokesperson\/status\/1414388159769714690\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe could not be clearer that anyone behind such disgusting behaviour is not welcome in following the team. We will do all we can to support the players affected while urging the toughest punishments possible for anyone responsible.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe will continue to do everything we can to stamp discrimination out of the game, but we implore governemnt to act quickly and bring the appropriate legislation so this abuse has real life consequences. Social media companies need to step up and take accountability and action to ban abusers from their platforms, gather evidence that can lead to prosecution and support making their platforms free from this type of abhorrent abuse.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prime Minister Boris Johnson also weighed in, condemning those responsible for the racist posts.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis England team deserve to be lauded as heroes, not racially abused on social media,\u201d Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Twitter. \u201cThose responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.3125\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This England team deserve to be lauded as heroes, not racially abused on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Those responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/1414465103374729220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The UK Football Policing Unit is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/united-kingdom-football-policing-unit-ukfpu\">leading<\/a> a hate crime investigation which \u201cstrives to reduce violence, antisocial behaviour and disorder at football events involving UK football teams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">\u201cWe are working very closely with social media platforms, who are providing data we need to progress enquiries,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/uk-police-arrest-four-over-racist-abuse-england-soccer-players-2021-07-15\/\">said<\/a> Chief Constable Mark Roberts, the officer responsible for leading Britain\u2019s policing response on soccer issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">\u201cIf we identify that you are behind this crime, we will track you down and you will face the serious consequences of your shameful actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/england-soccer-team-racist-abuse-players-police-arrest-suspects\/\">CBS News<\/a>, \u201c<\/span><span>897 football-related incidents were recorded and 264 arrests were made in the 24-hour period surrounding the game.\u201d Four of those arrests were for \u201chate crimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hate speech laws in the United Kingdom make it an offense for a person to use \u201c<\/span><span>threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour that causes, or is likely to cause, another person harassment, alarm or distress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSection 127 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it illegal to send a message via a public electronic communications network that is considered grossly offensive, or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character,\u201d per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/97552\/hate-speech-vs-free-speech-the-uk-laws\"><span>The Week<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days after three England soccer players were subjected to racist abuse online \u2014 including monkey emojis, slurs and taunts \u2014 British police have arrested at least four &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}