The daily mail- 'Smirking at soft justice britain'

This newspaper article is by "The Daily Mail" newspaper as read by the masthead. The main is of a young black man wearing a suit and seen to be smirking at his phone.
 The headline reads"Smirking at soft justice britain" which is anchored by the image creating the assumption that this young man is not only laughing and  at being let off for the numerous crimes he has committed but also mocking the british legal system. However it could be said that the young man may not be smiling but squinting as the sun is shown to be in his eyes, therefore the headline may be misleading.The image itself could link to Edward Said's definition of 'otherness' in which this young black man could be a representation of all black people in which they are typically presented as thugs and deviants within society.

The standfirst 'A suspected drug dealer with a history of carrying a blade dodged jail today', the verb dodged could be the idea that he was indeed guilty of the charges proposed but he got let off the hook because of the soft british legal system , this could have been used to create anger within the british citizens that 'criminals' are being let off the hook. However it could be argued that the reason as to why he was not charged is because he may not have been guilty of doing this crime and not because the legal system in britain is 'soft', which brings along the idea that they may be showing this young man in a bad light because of his race and all of the stereotypes surrounding his ethnicity. This once again links to Edward Said's defintion of 'otherness'.