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Cop strikes woman at G20 on video

I know, it's plain to see. But I will try and explain it, nice and slowly for you.

Because he's feebly trying to justify why it's ok for a 6foot+ copper (or any copper for that matter) to

a- give the young girl in the video a back handed slap, with nice big thick gloves on, because she stood up for someone else getting pushed around. And then

b- to whack her in the leg with a baton (which can easily break bones) because she had the gaul to complain about it.

Read the words here, try and put them together. See if any of the things you learnt at school come flooding back :)


Looks like a pretty straight forward assault case - he clearly strikes her, she does not appear to represent any threat to him. Difficult to argue self defence because she does not appear to be a threat.

Maybe he will get prosecuted now that its on the telly.
 
Come on, there were some there trying to get a reaction from the police, hence the scores of people carrying video cameras, hoping to get something juicy.
The woman and others, jumped on a minor incident where the black bloke was pushed, and deliberately inflamed it, then screamed police brutality when they got a reaction from the police, what they were looking for.

Oh do fuck off.

A five foot tall woman gives a copper a bit of lip and that justifies him assaulting her?

The police are there to enforce the law. Not act outside of it. If she had commited a crime (giving a copper lip isn't actually an offence) then he has powers of arrest he can use. He chose to assault her. Big man.
 
Again,selective blindness.She clearly punched him in the back

There is no point on the tape where the woman is shown punching the police officer. She has her arm stretched out at the beginning of the footage - this could represent a number of things, including gesture or self defence.

Put it before a magistrate and let them decide.
 
Again,selective blindness.She clearly punched him in the back
I can't see any evidence of that at all. Even if she did, that does not give the copper the right to slap a small woman across the face and then strike her with a weapon. The correct procedure would be to arrest her. Without violence.

Mind you, the fact that he appears to have his number covered is of serious concern and I'm delighted that it made the main BBC News today (notably they made no comment about her supposedly hitting him first).

Cops acting outside the law deserve to be charged.
 
just watched that video again and if you look at the the end one of the FIT coppers present, who once again did nothing to intervene and presumably didnt report the matter, is Steve Discombe

he does get around
 
Which frame? I can't see it.

At 3:40 it's obvious,though off camera,she pushes him then on camera pushes him and he catches her arm.She then goes onto for a third time push/punch him and,imo,he attempts to bat her off at the same time as fending off somebody off camera.

Or maybe it's my eyesight
 
naah,I can't see it either. She comes close to him, but there's no arm movement to suggest that she's hit him or is about to hit him in anyway.
 
Are those gloves standard issue or are they another accessory like the balaclava on the pc who pushed Ian Tomlinson?

Accessorising and covering their numbers . . . it encourages rogue behaviour.
 
At 3:40 it's obvious,though off camera,she pushes him then on camera pushes him and he catches her arm.She then goes onto for a third time push/punch him and,imo,he attempts to bat her off at the same time as fending off somebody off camera.

Or maybe it's my eyesight

'It's obvious, though off camera'

IE

'I'm going to invent shit to support my view'
 
naah,I can't see it either. She comes close to him, but there's no arm movement to suggest that she's hit him or is about to hit him in anyway.

And the BBC certainly aren't reporting it as such.

The BBC said:
The footage shows the woman swearing at a police officer who then appears to hit her in the face on 1 April.

The officer also apparently strikes the woman on the leg with his baton.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7998976.stm
 
Again,selective blindness.She clearly punched him in the back

Could you please point out at the time into the video she cleary punches him in the back. I have watched it twice now and can only see her getting hit off a reinforced kevlar combat glove then hit by a solid steel baton.

Or even better, a still captured from the video.

Thanks in advance. :)
 
No,you see the copper get jolted forward then this little woman appears directly behind him shouting the odds....Some would say she deserved a good slap
I suspect more would say it's time a misogynistic twat like you was kicked off the boards for good.

You have no actual evidence that she hit the policeman.
 
No,you see the copper get jolted forward then this little woman appears directly behind him shouting the odds....Some would say she deserved a good slap

Pro Coppers United People's Front, I wonder why you are on this forum I think the forum that you are looking for is called the Daily (Hate) Mail.
 
At 3:40 it's obvious,though off camera,she pushes him then on camera pushes him and he catches her arm.She then goes onto for a third time push/punch him and,imo,he attempts to bat her off at the same time as fending off somebody off camera.

Or maybe it's my eyesight

I've just watched it again (no audio). It all looked relatively calm. Then black bloke approaches cordon and seems to be asking the cops something. Pans left and a white bloke seems to be doing similar. Pans right again and a couple of extra cops approach cordon line-up where black bloke is. Then altercation. Small woman tries to catch gauntled cop's attention, he turns round impatiently but at that point doesn't strike her. She remonstrates with him. He backhands her and starts to get baton out. She approaches again and he batons her across the legs.
 
No,you see the copper get jolted forward then this little woman appears directly behind him shouting the odds....Some would say she deserved a good slap

they might, if they were you. But you are morally bankrupt and slightly quease-inducing.
 
Hang on. I want to see where in the video she punches the police officer in the back.

3:40 onwards.Shoves him off camera,then tries to hit him again and he blocks her,then hits him again and he allegedley slaps her.All whilst been pushed and shoved from all sides
 
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