MEANWHILE IN TOKYO, (the largest city in the world) has no terror attacks and no Muslims! Coincidence? I think not!” They included “David Seaman to be SUICIDED for EXPOSING PEDOGATE. anyone who said refugees welcome invited this.” They included “Sadiq Khan- Terror attacks are ‘part and parcel of living in a big city’. In the week before the bridge attack, The_Donald’s top posts included one titled, “5 refugees rape a 7 year old girl in Hamburg Germany. The gleeful anti-Muslim banter only grew from there.įlouting those rules was routine. “Now just add in a Muslim woman stepping over one of the bodies,” commented user 2termtrump-or /u/2termtrump in the site’s shorthand. Commenters turned out to express their support. TrumpBeatsHillary boasted a “flair” (a small image near the username) of Pepe the Frog in riot gear brandishing a gun. The post’s title referred to the attacker, Khalid Masood, who was shot and killed by London police.
In block letters at the top, the image was captioned: “BRIDGES NOT WALLS.” Two corpses had signs: One read “Fuck Trump” another was a rainbow flag. It depicted a stylized Westminster bridge covered in dead and bleeding bodies, with a distant truck trailing more blood behind it. The post itself was a political cartoon of sorts. Its title was “But hey, it wasn’t all bad.
Thirty-one hours later, a Reddit user named TrumpBeatsHillary wrote a post on the forum page r/The_Donald. On March 22, 2017, at 2:40 pm local time, a terrorist attacked pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London with a truck, killing five people and injuring at least 50.