Hard to ignore someone who keeps obstructing you. As I said, the reaction was way over the top but i've got no sympathy for him.
sickening police violence
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Hard to ignore someone who keeps obstructing you. As I said, the reaction was way over the top but i've got no sympathy for him.
Amen to that last sentiment.
What...A gentle push in the back.
The bloke can't even walk in a straight line, no one just falls over like that unless a.) there is something wrong with them (some sort of illness) or b.)they are drunk...Or just generally can't keep their balance.
going by the 'slowed' down video, the baton didn't even touch him, he got pushed in the back and fell over...GOT UP minutes after walking fine.
I have little sympathy for him if he was purposely taunting the police, etc. but even so it gave the police NO reason to treat him like that, its completely and utterly unacceptable.
His own fault he got pushed and his death was pretty unfortunate but i cant see much wrong from the police there. He is being moved along and told by the police what to do yet blatantly tries to walk back into the police at one point and isn't "just walking home".
I'm sorrry...I'll just go and take the pee out of every cop now then...knowing they are not allowed to lay a finger on me if I blatantly be a plank towards them...During quite a hectic protest I might add.
That's not what I was trying to suggest - the decision the copper had to make wasn't between 1. Do nothing and 2. Push him over, there were lots of other things that could have been done.
Although really if you decide to walk through a protest on your way home you need your head looking at.
Even though the bloke was fine after the 'assault'..Hell, you can sneeze on someone and assault them nowadays.
Maybe you missed the part where he had a heart attack? This wouldn't be news if he walked away and lived happily ever after.
No but surely you would try and get out the way not try and block the police officers advance. I dont think the police handled it well but then he didnt help things either.
he was apparently a homeless guy with drink problems who had been hanging around the kettled off area near RBS all day
if anything the policeman pushing him was doing him a favour - not a great idea to bimble about when they are clearing the area with dogs - doesn't look like they intentionally knocked him to the ground or anything more like they gave him a firm shove in order to get him to move on and he fell.
if anything the policeman pushing him was doing him a favour - not a great idea to bimble about when they are clearing the area with dogs - doesn't look like they intentionally knocked him to the ground or anything more like they gave him a firm shove in order to get him to move on and he fell.
As someone said above... they had the option of doing quite a lot of other things, not violently pushing him out the way...
They log url's, not anything sent over the connection.
Laying a finger is one thing, being forced to the ground is another
Ok, say you're walking down the street and some guy purposely keeps on walking a step in front of you. Are you going to think "This is fine, he's got a right to do that". I think I might go out now and deliberately antagonise some police officers, see if I get any punishment. No... wait, i'm familiar with social etiquette and the role of the police in the community; the latter being to keep the peace. That guy was clearly looking for a reaction and he got one.
Its scum like that guy who give protesters a bad name.
Agreed but the guy was looking for a reaction. Just a shame he got one he didn't like.