Clonee Incident

[Parrot]

"The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland wholeheartedly condemn the killing of a young, mentally ill black man yesterday at the hands of Gardaí. George Nkencho's death is the result of the institutional racism that exists in the Gardaí and the state taken to the extreme #BLM"

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI)
@SWAIIreland

Is there a pole taken for escorts for this? Or is it 1 person with a twitter posts whatever they want?

[Noregrets]

"The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland wholeheartedly condemn the killing of a young, mentally ill black man yesterday at the hands of Gardaí. George Nkencho's death is the result of the institutional racism that exists in the Gardaí and the state taken to the extreme #BLM"

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI)
@SWAIIreland

Is there a pole taken for escorts for this? Or is it 1 person with a twitter posts whatever they want?

SWAI really have ket down sex workers twice now, with this ill advised comment pre judging an incident without access to all the facts, something that sex workers are a victim of, been pre judged by people who do not know the facts surrounding individual sex workers reason for choosing this line of work. The previous time recently they badly let down sex workers eas when they transferred money into individual workers accounts and clearly identified the payments as coming from SWAI.

[Barney Rubble]

"The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland wholeheartedly condemn the killing of a young, mentally ill black man yesterday at the hands of Gardaí. George Nkencho's death is the result of the institutional racism that exists in the Gardaí and the state taken to the extreme #BLM"

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI)
@SWAIIreland

Is there a pole taken for escorts for this? Or is it 1 person with a twitter posts whatever they want?

I'm very surprised and disappointed by this statement issued by SWAI.

What is their reasoning behind this statement and what do they hope to achieve by issuing such a statement ?

Nothing like alienating yourself from the police force at a time when attacks on sex workers are increasing.

A very stupid and ill thought thing to do.

[SteveB]

Mistake for SWAI to get involved.
If they did feel the need to say something a simple "regret at the loss of a life" statement would have sufficed.

[Mij]

As a political movement Black Lives Matter advocates on behalf of the marginalised and they have a policy of supporting the decriminalisation of sex work, therefore the SWAI statement makes perfect sense.
Institutional racism refers to the culture of an institution and doesn't mean individual members of the institution are racist, it's referring to the culture. Think of the RUC where individual members were alright and well meaning but the institution was rotten to the core.
If you the Gardai or the justice system in Ireland treat the working class, blacks, travellers or sex workers the same as they treat the middle class, whites etc then you are blind to reality .