They'd get a kick in the goolies
Cop strikes woman at G20 on video
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They'd get a kick in the goolies
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hiraethified
Don't run away. Answer my question please.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Is it? you clearly relish the disproportionate result dished out by the big tooled up man on the small but persistent woman. You scrabble to defend it with the zeal that dung beetles track down piles of shit.
Your psycho-sexual issues regarding women and authority are a a psychiatrists paypacket imo.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Yeah right. But she didn't do that did she? She was hit with a reinforced gauntlet then a length of steel. Here's hoping whoever gives you a deserved slap for your comments is also tooled up to the same extent
He looks like the kind of beefcakes the police force use on Friday nights, he does not look out of place, he looks very much like a policeman. Unless you have a very old fashioned idea of the police force. I thought you would know this being a trade unionist and that.
Garcia Lorca
Anger can be power
the only thing odd that i can see is that he looks as though he is geared up to wack some protesters around. Numbers covered, gear on...........
theres no defence to this. IF the girl in the video done ANYthing she should have been arrested. there was enough police there to do that without Robocop giving her a slap and a baton to the leg.
How anyone can say what "clearly" happened off camera is beyond belief. NO ONE can say what clearly happened off camera. what happened on camera is nothing short of assault.
Even if she did punch him in the back it's not the response you expect off a highly trained police officer trained in anger management and people / communication skills.
Well maybe it is come to think of it.
Well maybe it is come to think of it.
A good comment from a BBC reporter on the 'incident', ''police can use violence but will have to justfiy it''. Having watching the video a number of times, for me the Police officer has done nothing wrong. She marched on him, verbally abusing him, and I can see her push/hit him in the back, and he turns around to defend himself and she got a back hander, he was trying to keep her away from himself, and she was a bit unlucky to get a slap on her face, he could have easily caught on the arm or somewhere else.
It does not matter if she was 2 foot tall, she was inciting the people around, and still continued to advance on him after she got the slap, and so he gave her a whack on the legs, and she backed of then, and more importantly so did the crowd around her. She jumped on a very minor incident which she had nothing to do with, and seemed to be intent on trouble with the police.
She was lucky she was not nicked on the spot. Know doubt if she was, there be a thread slagging the police off for that.
It does not matter if she was 2 foot tall, she was inciting the people around, and still continued to advance on him after she got the slap, and so he gave her a whack on the legs, and she backed of then, and more importantly so did the crowd around her. She jumped on a very minor incident which she had nothing to do with, and seemed to be intent on trouble with the police.
She was lucky she was not nicked on the spot. Know doubt if she was, there be a thread slagging the police off for that.
I don't agree with any of what you said but I'll respect it because you didn't fabricate or invent events, and that's all I am going to say to you.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Yeah, that's what makes him stand out. He looks like he is not there to stand in a row with all the others in their long sleeved jackets with their numbers clearly showing. Looks like he just turns up, slaps a woman here and there, and then merges into the background, to go and thump someone else.
All seems quite odd to me!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Listen to yourself. Better a backhander to the face than a nicking.
No, really, listen to yourself.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
He looks like the kind of beefcakes the police force use on Friday nights, he does not look out of place, he looks very much like a policeman. Unless you have a very old fashioned idea of the police force. I thought you would know this being a trade unionist and that.
What is the relevance of my profession?
I just think he stands out from the others. I think he is a Special Cop of some kind.
Aw, Dixon of Dock Green - those were the days, eh?
shaman75
Well-Known Member
People will see a policeman slapping a woman and then hitting her for no apparent reason.
And whether the excuses work or not, more people will lose faith in the police and the power of the state to protect them.
I thought the aim of the aggressive policing of this demo was to prevent a summer of rage, not completely tear apart what little remained of confidence in the police.
It all seems a little counter-productive and I'm surprised officers can't see the effects of their actions, regardless of how confident they are of getting away with it.
And whether the excuses work or not, more people will lose faith in the police and the power of the state to protect them.
I thought the aim of the aggressive policing of this demo was to prevent a summer of rage, not completely tear apart what little remained of confidence in the police.
It all seems a little counter-productive and I'm surprised officers can't see the effects of their actions, regardless of how confident they are of getting away with it.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
So, a bunch of Special Thugs?
Maybe it is just guys from a particular force who wear a slightly different uniform from the majority, and I am imagining that they are brought in as thugs? Only, the guy who does the slapping does appear to come from nowhere and then calmly leave again afterwards. Why doesn't he calm leave after he was pushed, if he was? All he had to do was walk through that line of police, and the woman would not have been able to follow him. End of story. But no, he slapped her and then got his baton out.
What about all the coppers who are doing these kind of things but are not on video?
Maybe it is just guys from a particular force who wear a slightly different uniform from the majority, and I am imagining that they are brought in as thugs? Only, the guy who does the slapping does appear to come from nowhere and then calmly leave again afterwards. Why doesn't he calm leave after he was pushed, if he was? All he had to do was walk through that line of police, and the woman would not have been able to follow him. End of story. But no, he slapped her and then got his baton out.
What about all the coppers who are doing these kind of things but are not on video?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
If your version of events is true, he should have nicked her instead. Whichever way you cut it, he's either not capable of arresting a tiny woman without violence, or not capable of dealing with a tiny woman that doesn't deserve arresting, without violence.
Thought you would have seen that kind of thing before at demos and what not. He does look more ominous than the other police in the video but I don't think he looks out of place.
Maybe itis badco?
Aw, Dixon of Dock Green - those were the days, eh?
Long before my time
shaman75
Well-Known Member
Someone has put up a quite corrupted image suggesting that he is AB 42
http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427427.html?c=on#c220573
http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427427.html?c=on#c220573
Mwahahahaha!
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Actually, I haven't ever seen anything like that firsthand, despite going to lots of demos. Partly that will be because I used to avoid ones which were expected to cause problems (since I am not only a coward, but was a single parent).
But I was going to demos long before I worked for a trade union.
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hiraethified
It is against the law for officers to slap women across the face. Police are not allowed to cover up their numbers. Police are not allowed to strike people who present no threat.
So that makes you wrong, wrong and wrong.
there were only around 200 people on that demo and it was completely peaceful
if shed been nicked on the spot then she would have been subject to due process, which is how the law works in this country, as opposed to summary corporal punishment based on the decision of random plod
there is no way the police were under any threat and its also clear that his actions excerbated the situation
its a crime pure and simple, if you are i had acted like that there would be no amount of mitigation which would have deemed the action acceptable - the fact its a copper makes it even wrose, they are supposed to be professional and trained to deal with someone giving them a bit of gip
you say a whack on the legs, but i have a friend who got a whack on the arm with one of those batons and was out of work for almost a year because of it - you appear to know very little about violence if you dont think that that could have caused serious injury
luckily the reaction from the met so far suggests that this particular twat will be made an example of, they need a sacrificial lamb and it looks like they just got one
scott_forester
probably talking shite
I love the guy who tells the camera crews to turn around because 'there's nothing to see here' it reminds me of the scene out of naked gun.
I'm a big supporter of the Police but people like this don't do them any credit.
I'm a big supporter of the Police but people like this don't do them any credit.
Mooncat
Hug me - I'm vaccinated
Clint Iguana
not an undercover cop
Garcia Lorca
Anger can be power
IPCC also say that "the actions of this officer raise immediate concerns".
how the fck some people on this thread think this is acceptable policing is beyond belief.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
There's jsut two people - one a copper and one a BNP supporter. That says it all.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
society encourages a craven attitude to authority 'please sir, can I have another slap?'
harpo
Listening to Radio Jackie
Oh they are just attention-seeking. What else can it be? There is utterly no justification for that thug's actions and anyone attempting to put one is just craving a bit of attention. Stuck in the child-like state of not caring if it's negative, as long as it's attention.
