Who’s The Racist??

A man apparently requiring emergency medical care spat on the floor of an ambulance and later punched the paramedic multiple times. But just because the patient was from an ethnic minority and the treating paramedic called him a filthy pig post the spit the magistrate, Pat O’Shane, dismissed the case. Read more about it here.

It should have been a clear-cut assault case. Yet it was muddied by inferences of race based discrimination. O’Shane asked the paramedic, "would the Court be correct in inferring………..that you don't like blacks?" The paramedic protested against the assertion yet O’Shane appeared to have made up her mind.

Race was never the issue at hand until O’Shane cast aspersions on the character of the paramedics and police officers involved. Ironically the aspersions were cast against those whom she is supposed to protect against criminals.

You could be the most racist person on earth but if you have not antagonised a person into violence based on their ethnicity then the racism is irrelevant. Was the paramedic assaulted or not was on what Ms O’Shane was supposed to rule.

I doubt she even realises that she has committed racial discrimination by favouring the “black” criminal against the “white” paramedic. Would she have come to the same ruling had the skin colours been reversed?