Anthony, a Black, Liverpudlian A-level student, was waiting at a bus stop with his 17-year-old, White girlfriend and his cousin, when he was abused and subsequently set upon by a group of men. Merseyside Police have taken in two teenagers for questioning following the incident.
On 7 July, an 18-year old, Leeds teenager Hasib Hussain, travelled to London with three suicide bomber associates, boarded a bus somewhere near King's Cross, before blowing himself up and killing 13 other passengers in Tavistock Square.
Yet go to our inner cities and you'll see teenagers of the same age from a vast range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds mixing happily together - often in youth work settings - treating each other as individuals, rather than ethnic or religious groups with pre-apportioned labels and stereotypes.
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