They fought the law, and the law won.
bobbyllewRT @markrock: The police really are their own worst enemy sometimes: http://bit.ly/PiVYm This is really terrible
C’mon guys, you know what’s really going on – I can’t fit a reply into 140 chars – the police have a massively difficult job made harder by idiots like the pair in this video. I do agree with Bobbyllew, it always looks terrible on TV, and yes, there are times when it’s absolutely unacceptable for officers to behave in such a manner, but they are dealt with. One of the biggest battles is making the removal of someone’s liberty look pleasing – no one wants it, and most people fight against it, so police have to deal with it quickly, fairly and efficiently, which also looks dreadful!
Which is better:
- 1 cop, 1 man, both punching, griping and kicking each other, man is then sprayed/baton and falls to the floor, then cuffed, still flailing his legs about.
- 8 cops on 1 man, but they’re all using finger tips, every limb is under control, he lashes out, quick administration of pain to a pressure point (which isn’t torture!!!), he stops, legs are tied so he cant hurt himself or someone else.
The link posted on Twitter of some protesters being “brutalised” by the police has touched a nerve with me personally (as normal given my background lol). I’m SICK of police getting bad press, and YES I’m aware that its the Guardian reporting this, I also read the Guardian as a creative, but so do lots of tree huggers, hippys and middle class anarchists that think they know the law, and will buy the paper because of this article.
The way the police dealt with this gets my approval 100%, the officers aren’t doing anything illegal, no? ok, I will explain why this has pee’d me off enough to waste 15 mins of my life writing about it.
- An officer does not need to give you his details under certain circumstances – fact
- An officers can arrest you for taking his picture without consent, it’s against the law! – fact
- A power station is a likely terrorist target, and is monitored for the sake of keeping the country running! – fact
- All officers should be wearing there collar/shoulder numbers* – ok, bad cop and will be reported internally and disciplined* (name tag can be removed under certain circumstances*) [*most forces]
- Emily Apple is a trouble maker, wearing a hoody and sun glasses like some geriatric teenager trying to remain anonymous, if she believed what she was doing was innocent, why the stupid outfit? She behaves like a teenager, believing she knows the law, that the world revolves around her, and feels she can push the law to its limit and remain lawful – idiotic time waster – meanwhile, people are being attacked and robbed and cops are stuck dealing with this plank.
- Emily Apples attempt at trying to cry on camera was almost good enough for a BAFTA award, however, no tears just a slight wobbly voice doesn’t convince. No entrance to Rada for you.
- If you resist arrest, you will be man-handled – fact
- If you attempt to strike an officer, you will be immobilised – fact
- Often it takes many officers to SAFELY control someone as each officer only needs to used slight force, which looks dreadful to passers by -I accept that, but better than one officer struggling and using maximum force, and possibly injuring themselves too isn’t it?
- Thumb in the neck – this is a pressure point, there’s no lasting effects, it provides a little pain and reward to those idiots who think they are above the law and refuse to move. If the pain isn’t removed after the suspect has complied, then it’s torture, however keeping your thumb in the right area allows for instant application of the pressure point as and when it’s required – I cant see if it was held for longer than it should have been.
- Holding head up to the camera for evidence – ok, looked bad, but who else will you get this deviant to look at the camera?
- If you continue to lash out, misbehave under arrest, you’re going to be dealt with in a manner that IS uncomfortable, you will probably be pined to the ground, cuffed and stuffed! Cuffs aren’t design to tickle either.
- Swearing is no way for a lady to behave – oh, and that’s an offence too! so if you swear in public, and a police officer tells you not to, and you take pictures of police officers when they have told you not to, and you also kick and lash out at them, don’t complain when your on the floor and your foot is being held down!
- “We turn the table on them” – smacks of serious mental issues and paranoia to me, credible member of society? hmmm, perhaps not… perhaps the “watchers” wouldn’t need to go “watching” if people weren’t wasting time and doing pathetic things next to sensitive landmarks..
- leg tape – stops animals (protesters) from hurting themselves, and officers. Oh and I saw you scratch your face into the dirt too. If behave like and animal, accept being treated like one, complain if they had stuck and apple in your mouth, for bad irony.
- You went to prison? oh dear! perhaps we should re-write the law books on what to do with criminals!
- You have a 4 year old child, and you went out on a law breaking jolly! ha! nice mother – should you be allowed to look after children?
There’s are right way and a wrong way to voice your opinion, and perhaps testing the waters of criminality isn’t the way forward, reasonable people would have listened to you without these stupid stunts, and crying to a paper that we all know would sympathize with you just to sell papers was pathetic. Did you write to the Times? Telegraph? no, but I bet you got front page on the Big Issue burning your bra eh?
Get a life and get your eyebrows bleached to match your hair, you twat.
Rant over.
