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by pcrh 394 days ago
How direct is direct enough? Connolley posted messages inciting racial violence, racial violence ensued.

Was Connolley a major instigator of these riots? No.

The judge's sentencing remarks are below, the key part being:

>6. When you published those words you were well aware of how volatile the situation was. As everyone is aware, that volatility led to serious disorder in a number of areas of the country where mindless violence was used to cause injury and damage to wholly innocent members of the public and to their properties.

https://crimeline.co.uk/lucy-connolly-sentencing-remarks-17-...