by Booney » Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:48 pm
I think, like most of us, we're struggling to read or view anything to do with the 4 murders up in Brisbane during the week. Just when I thought the case has disgusted me beyond belief :
An embattled Queensland detective whose comment on the murder of Brisbane mother Hannah Clarke and her children sparked outrage among domestic violence campaigners has been removed from the investigation.
Detective Inspector Mark Thompson was widely condemned over his choice of words at a press conference yesterday, as police updated the public on their investigation into the horrific car fire that killed Ms Clarke, 31, Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4, and Trey, 3.
“Our job as investigators is to keep a completely open mind,” he said.
“We need to look at every piece of information and, to put it bluntly, there are probably people out there in the community that are deciding which side, so to speak, to take in this investigation.
“Is this an issue of a woman suffering significant domestic violence, and her and her children perishing at the hands of the husband?
“Or is it an instance of a husband being driven too far by issues that he’s suffered by certain circumstances into committing acts of this form?”
Here we have a Detective inspector suggesting these crimes could be the result of a *piece of shit* being driven too far by issues that he's suffered.
This is the kind of normalising, the kind of victim blaming that see's this type of thing still go on in our society. I feel sick thinking people see things like this.
Stop the world. I'm getting off.
PAFC. Forever.
LOOK OUT, WE'RE COMING!