Can the Police Stand Any More Bad Press
Another piece of video footage showing a female protester apparently being assaulted by a sergeant in the Territorial support group. This latest footage appears to confirm reports that the brutality inflicted upon Ian Tomlinson was not an isolated incident.
The IPCC now have this case to investigate as well. They certainly have their work cut out for them. But what on earth were the police at the G20 protests thinking? It’s looking like they were primed for a fight and instead of controlling people they resorted to bully-boy tactics that should never have been used.
While it’s good to hear that the officers concerned have been suspended it will be months before the IPCC complete their investigations. By then will we have all forgotten how serious these offences were?
Ref: BBC News.
Green Bay Ford wrote,
People do forget easily and most likely the incident will be forgotten for in detail.
Link | April 30th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Charles from Police Exam wrote,
It’s weird how things can change in a generation. Police officers used to be someone you’d go to for help. In a lot of ways they’re viewed more like thugs today. They really need to get the old image back.
Link | May 29th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
James from Maid Service Prices wrote,
Given time it will be forgotten and then a similar incident will occur. Rinse/repeat. To bad people don’t learn from history.
Link | June 21st, 2009 at 3:50 am
Timmy from Retirement Income Calculator wrote,
It is not acceptable to have people doing such things to others as police officers. People should have respect f or police officers. With such actions you will never earn respect, more contrary, they damage the whole police!
Link | July 31st, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Johnny wrote,
The New York City police department has a bad reputation amongst civil rights advocates because they shoot and kill innocent black and hispanic people. Amadou Dialo and Sean were both killed by cops. It’s really saddening.
Link | October 12th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Tom from Scalextric wrote,
The police must always be seen to be behaving in a totally acceptable manner – regardless of the provocation. Its a tough job and staying cool when faced with an angry, spitting, yelling mob is more than most of us would be capable of.
Link | October 28th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Self Managed Superannuation wrote,
This is a very interesting article I have come across. “Amateur brain surgery “This is weird .The police must always be seen to be behaving in a totally acceptable manner – regardless of the provocation. It’s a tough job and staying cool when faced with an angry, spitting, yelling mob is more than most of us would be capable of.
Link | January 26th, 2010 at 8:17 am
condos for sale nyc wrote,
This is very responsible and hard profession i think, but killing innocent people is terrible and incidents like this shouldn’t be forgotten.
Link | January 27th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Ed from police software wrote,
It is clear that police need to improve their general processes to manage protesters. The number of IPCC investigations into similar acts of apparent police heavy-handedness is, hopefully, leading to long term changes in processes. UK policing is perhaps the most controlled policing in the world, but there is always room for improvement.
Link | July 5th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Herbert Lex Shallcross III wrote,
You describe the young woman as a protestor, which means the poor dear girl didn’t accidentally get swept up in the riot, but made plans to come there and take part.
The one thing that is clearly known about the G-20 protests over the years, G-8 etc., is that they have always involved assaults on police, arson and property damage.
The police knew the history. For them to be unprepared to face violence would be ridiculous. To believe this female protester came there without expecting a violent confrontation would require naivete of an implausible degree. She was involved in provoking the violence. Had she and her fellow criminal conspirators stayed within the law, no violence would have occurred. Where does the blame really lie?
If you criticize the police without a single word of censure for the people who conspired to join together to create mayhem, it shows you have abandoned any pretense of objectivity.
In a world where police would never have to confront violence, society would have no need of police.
The police have worked for many years to improve their response to violent rioters, and still continue. It’s not as if we’ve returned to the days when machine guns would have been used.
If the police weren’t there, and the G-20 marauders were throwing Molotov cocktails at you, exactly what non-violent methods would you employ to save your sorry self?
Link | July 16th, 2011 at 3:29 pm