It's unfair but if you choose to racially abuse somebody in front of thousands, plus TV cameras and millions watching then you open yourself up for more punishment. It's why devious people commit crimes away from witnesses.
We are also seeing people in public caught racially abusing others because somebody has recorded it, this has helped get them convicted.
Anyway, this guy will probably get another job when the heat has died down.
He bought it upon himself. And if some of his posts that are going around are authentic then what was captured on camera can’t be passed off by him as a moment of stupidity or having one too many, but was actually a reflection of his beliefs and personality.
So yeah while camera phones and twitter etc have their good points. As you pointed out with helping to record crimes and identify perpetrators, sometimes it becomes blood thirsty.
I wonder what % of the people calling for him to be fired don’t have a moment in their life that they’d rather go to either the police or a priest and confess privately instead of having it judged by twitter.
That’s the problem with mob justice, it becomes less about justice and more about people getting kicks on seeing someone suffer while using the pretext of that persons crime to make themselves feel justified.
Same psychology as online bullying. But with acceptance because the target is feckface