Real reason the police revealed more details about the Liverpool crash suspect than usual

On Monday 26th May, a vehicle collided with football fans during Liverpool Football Club’s victory parade. The police have arrested someone in connection with the attack. We know the suspect is 53 years old, white, British and from the Liverpool area. Police wouldn’t usually release this much information about somebody they’ve just arrested. Liverpool’s mayor has shed light onto the reason why the police have shared more details than normal about the man arrested in connection to the Liverpool parade crash.

The Liverpool City Region Mayor, Steve Rotheram, told Sky News: “We all know that speculation and social media are a wildfire of different vantages, and some of it is for nefarious reasons.

“So, it was right, of course, that the police reacted as quickly as they did to dampen down some of the types of posts that we were witnessing, you know, saying that there were other things happening throughout the city.”

Many videos of the crash are circulating on social media, and lots of people are spreading unfounded theories about who is behind the attack and why. Some people suggested the attack was linked to an Islamist terrorist group, or somehow linked to migrants. It seems the police shared more information than they usually would about the suspect in order to disprove some of these conspiracy theories about the Liverpool parade crash.

On BBC Radio 5 Live, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent called Dal Babu agreed that Merseyside Police seem to have changed their approach to sharing information following the aftermath of the Southport stabbings. He said: “I think that was to dampen down some of the speculation from the far-right that sort of continues on X even as we speak that this was a Muslim extremist and there’s a conspiracy theory.”

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