I’m not sure why you always make it personal yeti, but my point is you’ll always find someone on twitter, or talkback, or reddit or footy message boards to support the allegedly aggrieved party. If you have 200 odd people in a block of course you’ll find people that agree he did nothing wrong. That would be the case even for something egregious, like a racist or homophobic remark. That doesn’t mean that what the guy did or said was appropriate or that his version is ‘accurate’.
Also, it’s not like someone called 000 and the cops missed a burglary because of this guy. You have to remember that this has happened after the spectre of fan violence was raised by the numerous punch-ons at the Collingwood v Carlton game a few weeks earlier. There does always seem to be cops at games, but maybe they are on alert after the recent violence.
This article is a bit pearl-clutchy for my tastes, but I think there is something to this.
People act as if maintaining safety at an event with 75,000 people, many drunk and agitated men, is easy. Again, this was one guy in a crowd of 75,000 who was asked to pipe down. Of course there is a volume, or at least consistent volume, when supporting becomes something unpalatable. There is also a line where ‘supporting’ looks a lot like provoking others.
You all seem to act that (literally) policing this line is easy. There would minor incidents like this every week. On some occassions I reckon security/the cops regret not stepping in sooner, and on some occassions they probably overreact. It's only news because it's found its way into the talkback feeding cycle.
