At nine minutes past eight on the evening of Monday May 26, Merseyside Police did something that no other British police force had done before.

Just two hours after a car had collided with football fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League triumph in the crowded city centre, the force proactively published the ethnicity and nationality of the man they had arrested, who had by then been taken into custody.

In all cases where charging decisions are publicised forces should state the ethnic group and nationality of the individual accused

‘We can confirm the man arrested is a 53-year-old White British man from the Liverpool area,’ the police said in a press release.

The force had taken this unprecedented step to avoid misinformation and disinformation about the suspect’s background from

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