The BBC says "crowd gathers" to describe anti-migrant mob

Complaint about BBC's euphemistic headline 'Crowd gathers after Pakistani cricket team mistaken for migrants,' which obscures that this was a racially motivated anti-migrant mob in Portsmouth.

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