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Not precisely, although there is some overlap with social conditions (long term generational unemployment, poverty, criminality, single motherhood, drugs, and so on). There's also the modern interventions in school and via social workers which teach the baby criminals that the best defence is attack, i.e. if witnessed committing crimes or hanging around in groups likely to be up to no good, immediately start yelling about racism/you're attacking me, help help/paedophile (as here, this is the newest angle of 'turn the accusation around') and the likes.
I don't know why the guy recorded those girls. Maybe he was a paedo brown creep who was creeping on innocent white Scottish girls. Maybe they had done or said something before this and he was recording in case things kicked off. but walking around with a knife and hatchet is not "I'm defending myself in case a brown rapist paedophile tries to get me". It may well be "I'm defending myself from the other violent white girls around here" or "I'm commencing my career of petty crime by getting ready with my mate to threaten and mug a passer-by" or even just "I'm acting tough and copying the older petty criminals and feral teenagers around here".
We haven't enough information as yet to know what exactly was going on, but there's plenty of reasons not to immediately assume the girls were innocent little blossoms just pre-emptively ensuring their virtue was safe by going around with knives.
I mean, yeah, I assume she’s trying to impress some teenage drug dealer because a hatchet and butcher knife is not a normal choice of self defense weapon- if this had been a folding knife, even an illegal one, it’d be different.
Most likely explanation. Everyone will come out of this looking slightly seedy; you shouldn't be recording kids in the park, but kids in the park shouldn't be hanging around with knives.
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