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Topic History of: Police Brutality - Another video
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JC |
I think she was making a point.
She could have just lay there and accepted it, I guess. But then, maybe people wouldn't have taken so much notice, and this incident could have passed beneath the radar. |
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robbiex |
It is a bit out of order bundling her to the ground for taking photographs, however she does milk it a lot. |
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david |
robbiex wrote:
This isn't that bad. Nobody is been beaten and the woman is clearly resisting arrest.
she is right to resist unlawful arrest. |
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JC |
The police refused to identify themselves, even though the law requires them to do so. They then make the arrests, using unecessary physical force, when further attempts are made to log their identities. The resisting began when the police refused to say what the arrests were for, and when they used excessive tactics. These were not people threatening violence against the police. Nor were they obstructing the work of the police. Nor were they warned that they must leave the area. The police found them to be a nuisance and so used aggression against them. I hope any of us would resist this.
In addition it is claimed they denied the women legal representation.
A wholly unacceptable situation. |
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DR2 |
The woman was actually resisting unlawful arrest. All she did was to ask the officer for his number, which isn't even an offence, let alone an arrestable one and was promptly arrested. I have nothing against the police being tough with armed criminals or terrorists, but these peaceful, if vocal, protestors were neither. I hope the woman successfully sues the police for wrongful arrest.
The sketch on the "Bremner, Bird and Fortune" programme on Channel 4 a week or so ago, although satire, pretty well summed up the present day situation regarding the police and the public. John Bird is at the dinner table with his friends and he has bandages around his head, his nose and face covered in plasters and his right arm is in a sling. His friends ask him what happened to him. "Well", he says, "I was minding my own business walking through central London when those riots were going on the other week and I asked this riot policeman if this was the way to Threadneedle Street and he said "Watchit! Don't use language like that to me, sonny!" and promptly kicked me to the ground and began hitting me all over my head and body with his truncheon." |
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