Ivan Toney: Brentford condemns 'disgusting, racist abuse' confronted by its striker on social media

Muricas News  — 

English Premier League membership Brentford launched a press release condemning the “disgusting, racist abuse” its striker Ivan Toney says he obtained on social media after he scored two objectives throughout his facet’s 2-0 win over Brighton & Hove Albion on Friday.

“I wasn’t even going to put up this however I wakened indignant…” Toney wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning, alongside screenshots of an Instagram direct message utilizing abusive language.

In its assertion, Brentford condemned “this discriminatory behaviour within the strongest attainable phrases.

“An assault on one in every of our gamers is an assault on all of us. Ivan will obtain the complete backing from the Membership and from the Brentford followers who we have now already seen condemning the abuse.

“We count on sturdy help from the police, authorized authorities and from Instagram’s father or mother firm, Meta, to make sure that the person concerned faces the complete pressure of the legislation for this despicable hate crime.”

“No person ought to obtain racist messages comparable to this,” the Metropolitan Police stated in a press release to Muricas News. “We have now despatched a message to the sufferer asking him to contact police.”

A Meta spokesperson stated in a press release to Muricas News that, “nobody ought to should expertise racist abuse, and sending messages like that is utterly towards our guidelines.

“DMs are non-public areas, which suggests we are able to’t take motion except somebody stories the message to us in-app – however we additionally wish to assist shield individuals from having to see this abuse within the first place.

“That’s why we’ve developed our Hidden Phrases characteristic which filters offensive feedback and DMs, and we’re working carefully with soccer our bodies to assist gamers flip these instruments on. Nobody factor will repair this in a single day, however we’ll proceed to work to assist shield our group from abuse, and to reply rapidly to legitimate authorized requests to help police investigations.”

Earlier than kick-off, Brentford and Brighton gamers took a knee to “present their unity towards all types of racism,” as all Premier League gamers are doing between October 8 and 16 to spotlight the league’s No Room For Racism marketing campaign.

The Premier League additionally launched its personal assertion on Twitter, condemning “all types of discrimination.”

“Nobody ought to should face abuse of the sort obtained by Ivan Toney,” the assertion learn. “It has no place in soccer or society. We're supporting Ivan and the membership with investigations. Soccer is for everybody #NoRoomForRacism.”

“The #PL will proceed to help gamers and work with golf equipment to sort out discriminatory behaviour,” the league added, in a threaded tweet.

In Could, British police stated it was investigating the alleged racist abuse of Toney and his teammate Rico Henry’s households throughout Brentford’s match towards Everton in Liverpool.

Toney and Henry tweeted the allegations towards the unidentified supporters after the match at Goodison Park.

“And for the person that racially abused my household Il [sic] do all the things I can to get you the punishment you deserve,” Toney wrote on the time.