Liam
Stacey (21, student) who had been jailed for 56 days after he posted offensive
and racist comments about footballer Fabrice Muamba's collapse on Twitter, is
terribly sorry. Suspended from university, he will be allowed to take his final
exams as an external candidate and will not be invited to the graduation
ceremony. After his initial tweet, people started to criticize him and he retaliated,
and things got out of hand. Stacey pleaded guilty and admitted that he used
threatening and insulting words with the intent to offend and harass people.
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I didn’t know much about the whole ‘Fabrice Muamba’ thing before this article, but apparently a football player collapsed during a match, and I’m just stunned that people can still be so ignorant and racist. If you see someone collapse like that, you don’t tweet ‘LOL. Fuck Muamba he’s dead’, death isn’t funny. He claims to have been drinking and that he doesn’t know why he decided to tweet about it, if you are really that drunk then what is the point of watching a football match in the first place. You probably wouldn't be able to remember it anyway, right?
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/22/muamba-twitter-abuse-student-sorry
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I didn’t know much about the whole ‘Fabrice Muamba’ thing before this article, but apparently a football player collapsed during a match, and I’m just stunned that people can still be so ignorant and racist. If you see someone collapse like that, you don’t tweet ‘LOL. Fuck Muamba he’s dead’, death isn’t funny. He claims to have been drinking and that he doesn’t know why he decided to tweet about it, if you are really that drunk then what is the point of watching a football match in the first place. You probably wouldn't be able to remember it anyway, right?
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/22/muamba-twitter-abuse-student-sorry
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