On July 30, a man walked into a children’s dance class and promptly began to stab the kids and the adults who attempted to stop him. Three children died, and another eight children and two adults were injured.
Because the suspect was still a week away from turning 18, his name was initially not disclosed to the public. The only thing known early on about him was that he was black, and once the police refused to provide more information, speculation took hold and bad actors falsely claimed that the U.K. had just suffered an Islamist terrorist attack that the authorities were covering up.
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