Should This Savage Go To Jail?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59439796

[emmie]

perjury, lying to the police should come with a jail sentence.

[naomi24]

Why is he a 'savage'?

[douglas9401]

It's enough that he'll never work in his chosen field again.

One less self absorbed dressing-up expert can't be bad.

[ToraToraTora]

come on Naomi, it's an old Ab joke, going back to AOG years ago.

[davebro]

a minor US actor screws up his career - am I bovvered?

[Ken4155]

Lying to the police isn't perjury, Emmie.

[naomi24]

It's wearing a bit thin, TTT.

[drmorgans]

A bit of banter, as Michael Vaughan might say.

[emmie]

i didn't say it was, i should perhaps of put "and" in there..

[drmorgans]

Perjury, perverting the course of justice, both pretty serious.

[JJ109]

It may be a joke TTT, but he is not a "savage" by his actions.
You must be careful, otherwise some may assume you called him a savage simply due to his skin colouring!

Claims of racism could then get blown out of proportion.

[naomi24]

Before this gets silly - or blown out of all proportion - ^that didn't occur to me.

[Ken4155]

^
That would have helped :-)
So you believe anyone who lies to the police should go to prison? There'd have to be a prison erected in almost every town to accommodate those that would fall foul of your suggestion.

[ToraToraTora]

it's about perverting the course of justice, arranging and setting up a fake racial incident. Gawd knows haw far back he's set the genuine cause in the US, that's the real "crime" here.

[ToraToraTora]

jj109, people of all colours are labelled savages, it's a running joke on this site.

[naomi24]

//So you believe anyone who lies to the police should go to prison? //

This is 'just' lying to the police though, is it. Yes, I do think he should go to jail.

[naomi24]

*isn't just

[CrapAtCryptics]

Before this how many of us had actually heard of him. Stars in a series about a rap empire, I`m sure we were all dashing to watch that.

[Ken4155]

Naomi, i was replying to Emmie's statement that anyone lying to the police should go to jail. What this guy is alleged to have done is a world away from just lying to plod and, yes, if declared guilty, he should serve time.

[THECORBYLOON]

"jj109, people of all colours are labelled savages, it's a running joke on this site."

Where's the humour?