They might if the violence is ‘obviously’ implicitly political - deaths at the hands of the state, deaths caused by unregulated private behemoths perhaps - but ordinarily, “private” civilian deaths no matter how awful only provoke political response when others imbue the death with politics
David Mead
What are people legitimately going to protest about in Belfast tonight before we know for sure what the facts are, and about the victim and assailant?
People do not usually protest about brutal single acts of violence
