I wonder about the legality of this?

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Mottie said:
Black kids in London weren’t even born when that happened and I bet if you asked the average 20 year old black kid who Steven Lawrence was, hardly any would know so don’t be so stupid.
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You are judging it from your perspective. It was just 17 years ago that Stephen was stabbed to death by five racist white thugs.
Then it was an ongoing saga, with a public inquiry in 1998, The Macpherson report
Jack Straw spoke in Parliament about it in 2001
A further development occurred in 2003/2005 when the Criminal Justice Act was amended.
Then in 2012 two of the suspects were tried in a very high profile case.
In 2013 the issue resurfaced when a serving police office retired and 'spilled the beans'.
Then in 2014 the inquiry into undercover policing was published, which was required by Theresa May in the light of the police officers 'spilled beans'.
Then in 2015 there was a further inquiry.

So, all in all, it's hardly been out of the public awareness in all of its 17 years.
As it was about a racist attack on a black defenceless kid by five white racists, I'm sure all black London kids will have been, not only aware of it, but following it closely.
 
Bobby Dazzler said:
You are judging it from your perspective. It was just 17 years ago that Stephen was stabbed to death by five racist white thugs. Then it was an ongoing saga, with a public inquiry in 1998..... So, all in all, it's hardly been out of the public awareness in all of its 17 years.
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So, they held the public enquiry 5 years before it happened eh? Very commendable. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Bobby Dazzler said:
As it was about a racist attack on a black defenceless kid by five white racists, I'm sure all black London kids will have been, not only aware of it, but following it closely.
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Give it 6 months and the average black youth of today won’t even know who George Floyd was.
 
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Getting back to the original post, both the banner guy and his girlfriend were almost certainly sacked for gross misconduct. If they disagree with that then they could go to an employment tribunal. But they won't- because almost certainly they would lose.
 
On the subject of the original post. IF they have a clause in the contract, not to bring the company in to disrepute, they could leverage this. However, he would have a defence that he could not have known or intended his actions to cause this. They will need to tread with great care. A banner all lives matter would have had the same message (if innocent) and squeaky clean.

edit : its not gross misconduct (the catch all) Its breach of contract.
 
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