> When they arrive in a flood, as they have during economic booms since the 19th-century gold rush, including the dotcom surge of the late 1990s and the current tech tsunami, they scour out what was there before. By 2012 the incursion of tech workers had gone from steady stream to deluge, and more and more people and institutions – bookstores, churches, social services, bars, small businesses – began to be evicted.<p>Flood, scour out, incursion, deluge... it's very rare for a liberal publication such as The Guardian to describe immigration in such negative terms!
This is from 2016, but you can see that even three years ago, the Guardian was already busy milking every possible story for outrage. Nothing can happen, clearly, without it being connected to <i>something</i> bad caused by tech.
Police officers are killed on the job at something like 60x the rate of the regular population. There is a lot of material to work with here, but if the guy really pulled his Tazer on the cops, he more or less engaged in death by cop.
This is a huge stretch. It’s not only white people that call the cops when it looks like someone has a gun.<p>However, the guardian salivates at the opportunity to blame rich white people for our problems, so im not surprised.
Police Officers "He was coming right for us" defense is a bit suspect considering the mixed up stories. Nevertheless this article is leaping to a whole ton of conclusions. He was carrying a weapon when the cops were called on him and there is no indication who called the cops on him.<p>Quite a xenophobic leap to conclusions to blame this on some racist newcomer for such a woke progressive newspaper.
IMO non-whites can’t trust the police, they can’t trust white people, and they know interactions with either is likely to lead to their death. How much longer before they say it’s better to die fighting, and start shooting first? I’m angry at those men walking their dogs. They are just as much to blame for this as the police.
And the HN comment section has all the surprises of a box of biscuits: loyal belief in police testimony, and a complete ignorance of the point of the article in favour of pedantic point scoring. If anyone is looking for a position to fill, whataboutisms and supporting the right of the rich to walk all over you are still up for grabs.