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Compare to the murder of Henry Nowak. A Sikh man stabbed him with a knife he was allowed to carry for religious reasons. His mother stole the boy's phone to hide the evidence of the altercation. When police arrived, the murderer accused Henry of "racial abuse" and sans any other evidence the police cuffed Henry and left him to bleed out while saying he couldn't breathe.
Or indeed with Alex Coughlan, a man in his thirties who was murdered by two black Muslim teenagers in a less central part of Dublin five days later. Where are the protests for justice for him? Where are the accusations that his murder was a racially motivated hate crime? Nowhere to be seen, of course.
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