Meanwhile, in the "land of the free" that these free speech advocates always seem to see as their aspiration:
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Welcome to the UK where large chunks of the media are eager to downplay the (supposedly) out of character actions of a (coincidentally white British) man who drove into a crowd (despite him previously being jailed for biting someone's ear off, and various other past offences).

Welcome to the UK where large chunks of the media are eager to downplay the (supposedly) out of character actions of a (coincidentally white British) man who drove into a crowd (despite him previously being jailed for biting someone's ear off, and various other past offences).

But somehow they can still find loads of people in the article willing to say what a top bloke he is.
Maybe these people need to re-evaluate their friend?

And there's more:
While in the army, he had military convictions for common assault, criminal damage, and using "violence against a superior officer".

He had also been convicted of another GBH offence over a drunken nightclub brawl.

It's not like there weren't signs:
On 2 July 1993, a drunken fight in a Lancashire pub ended with Doyle biting the ear off a sailor, leading to a 12-month prison sentence for causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) without intent.

Here's some more detail in the story.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's kind of tame compared to the normal Florida Man stories.

3.8% of the population, but 29% of deaths in custody is a really horrifying statistic.

I remember the smoking carriage - it always smelled dreadful as you passed through the train.