“Such mob attacks suggest an ethnic or cultural factor”
It’s hard to keep track of the outrageous and offensive things Andrew Bolt writes. No one in Australia has a bigger platform. So this one blog should serve as a good shorthand of Bolt’s standards and assumptions.
Part 1 on Monday August 3:

“Such mob attacks suggest an ethnic or cultural factor”. Two things to note about that: 1) Bolt clearly regards “ethnic” or “cultural” as signifying non-white. 2) A category of crime indicates to Bolt that it was probably some type of non-white group — Arabs, Africans, whoever.
Sam Dastyari on that day debunked it on twitter.
As did Kate Aubusson in Fairfax.
Imagine — a beloved family member dies, and the paramedics spread a false story in their time of grief that the man died from drugs, and the grieving family was violent (it wasn’t). Already, the APA backtracked — it claimed 60 cops were sent in to protect them, but the police said it was only 15, which APA admitted.
Today, the APA admitted it had made it up.
“APA (NSW) acknowledges that any statement in the previous media release to the effect that Mr Ibrahim’s family members either contributed or were in any way responsible for his death is wholly incorrect and should not have been published,” the statement said.
“Likewise, APA (NSW) further acknowledges that at no time did Mr Ibrahim’s family members obstruct or threaten paramedics whilst they were administering medical assistance to Mr Ibrahim. Unfortunately, despite doing everything that they could, paramedics were unable to revive Mr Ibrahim.
“APA (NSW) deeply regrets publishing its previous media release and unreservedly apologises for any grief, embarrassment or distress it caused to family members of Mr Ibrahim.”
Bolt posted this update with a brief “False” intro. People who check out what is now the 11th item on his blog can catch the update if they look for it. His readers might miss it. Here was one popular reaction:

Others

Here I just want to stress — it is not that Bolt was wrong, or spoke too soon. It is that he read a report of a crime, instantly assumed there was an “ethnic or cultural factor”, and rushed to inform his readers.