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Originally posted by spikey
I don't remember the last time i read about a UK copper mugging an old lady/man for a few quid. Or raping them then beating them to death.
I don't think i've ever heard or read of a UK copper flashing kids in a public park, or raping the same.
I don't even remember the last time a copper burgled a house, to get his or her drugs money.
Knifeing people? Nope. Getting pissed up on a weekend and going all out to put as many people in hospital as posible, cause they looked at his or her bird or bloke? Nope.
Smash and grabs at jewelery shops maybe then? Nope again.
Yeah, there are a few high profile, but isolated cases of brutality and even out and out miscarriages of justice.
But stop and think for a nano second, at the level of not only crime against property (burglary, smash and grab, fraud, etc etc) but of real, bloody, violent crime against innocent people, mostly minding their own business, and it soon puts your comment into perspective..which is the perspective of an brain adled teenager, frankly mate.
Said before, and i'll say it again for you.
YOU are a lot safer with the police with their odd bad apples, than without any of them. Most people would not last a week, if the police suddenly dissapeared, and you know it.
spikey.
Originally posted by The Lass
Let's face it, the guy doesn't look as if he were ever wary about entering the pie shop. He'd probably have died on his first drunken trip over a piece of dust on the pavement anyway.
Not to say the officer was correct in what he did, obviously. But that's for the inquiry & CPS to decide and not the professional victims inhabiting this thread.
Originally posted by spikey
I assumed he was a bit pissed to be honest, so was kind of staggering about a bit. But it did flash across my mind that he was trying it on, being provocative shall we say?
NOT that being a bit of a 'lad' in any way means he should die because of it, but it may go some way to explaining why the copper got pissed off and pushed/smacked him. Shame he died of course, and i want to be clear on that.
spikey.
Originally posted by insider15
totally agree with spikey!!! cops are human beings and as a species and individuals we can be amazing or terrible John matrix seems to just be blinkered in his view and sees all police in the same light. I dont like the police when they pull me for speeding but if i got mugged or my mum got assaulted(which happened) then the only people i wanna see coming round the corner is as many police as possible.
Originally posted by John Matrix
Originally posted by spikey
I assumed he was a bit pissed to be honest, so was kind of staggering about a bit. But it did flash across my mind that he was trying it on, being provocative shall we say?
NOT that being a bit of a 'lad' in any way means he should die because of it, but it may go some way to explaining why the copper got pissed off and pushed/smacked him. Shame he died of course, and i want to be clear on that.
spikey.
I don't see him being provocative at all. He moved to the side so the cops could go around him and when he saw they were not going to go around him he started moving forward and out of the way. The cop on the right side of the screen who attacked him had to take three good steps toward the guy before hitting and shoving him from behind like the coward he is.
Stop twisting everything to justify taking the wrong side. It is what it is and nothing else. The cop is a A_Hole coward and is guilty of negligent use of force causing death.
[edit on 8/4/09 by John Matrix]