Recently many people were gripped by the online spectacle of a teenage girl who was arrested in Dundee on 23 August for brandishing an axe and a knife. In the unsettling video, it appeared to be an act of self-defence. “Don’t touch my little sister, she is only twelve,” can be heard in the video.
If this was a political column we would want very much to know who the girl was? Whom exactly did the police arrest? And what was actually going on in the apparent confrontation with the foreign-sounding man filming the video?
