15 police officers hurt in brixton overnight

stockhausen said:
That will be when the car was pulled over after an officer entered the wrong details into the police computer which wrongly claimed the car was registered to Yorkshire will it?

It is quite outrageous that anyone at all from Yorkshire would dare to drive in the capital - let alone a person of colour in an expensive BMW who might be involved in the gang or knife crime which is so common in the deprived and lawless South of England ;)

Chill bro, even the Police have admitted their mistake and moved on from this by now.
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The mistake the police have admitted to is entering the wrong number plate... entering a wrong number plate and pulling someone over isn't a news story though... a black MP filming it before the police even approach the car, berating them for a bit then going to the media and making it a race issue is the story... Given the car had tinted windows and the driver was rather pale himself it's a bit of a reach - of course the bodycam and/or dashcam footage would have clarified this - strangely enough she doesn't seem to be volunteering to allow that to be released. You can't very easily racially profile someone if you can't necessarily even see them!
 
stockhausen said:
A "tyre awareness campaign" you say?

I was under the impression that in the interests of consistency and accuracy you should always check tyre pressures when the tyres are cold :confused:
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Most tyre size / pressure stickers on modern vehicles cite both cold and hot recommended pressures. And differing pressures for expected loading of the vehicle with goods or passengers.
 
That begs the question "should the responsibility fall on the shoulders of our already stretched police force?"

If our current monitoring process is insufficient, we should modify it to ensure additional resources aren't required, or at least any additional resource which is required is not one already in high demand for dramatically more important duties.
 
NVP said:
That begs the question "should the responsibility fall on the shoulders of our already stretched police force?"

If our current monitoring process is insufficient, we should modify it to ensure additional resources aren't required, or at least any additional resource which is required is not one already in high demand for dramatically more important duties.
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So how do we modify it? Increase the frequency? A huge swathe of people barely manage to have their vehicles checked annually nevermind what...quarterly?
 
If awareness is the issue simply sending pamphlets or emails will notify more people than traffic stops, and can be done at any frequency.

It may not have the same individual impact, but it will affect a larger audience and provide constant awareness.
 
Dis86 said:
I mean I could have tried to drive away. I could have stuck a phone in their face. I could have been belligerent. I could have been violent.

Or I could have made a crap joke and got on my way.
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:D

I must have been pulled a dozen plus times in Lincoln/Stoke in the mid 2000's as I was a mid 20's guy driving a Nissan R34 (expensive Japanese car) during the height of the Fast & Furious & "cruises" scene. I was always polite, always answered their questions, never got angry, remained calm and never got aggressive with the folks just doing their job.

Strangely however I was never beaten, tazered, dragged from the car and arrested or had any negative outcome at all from any of the incidents involving the brutal fascist Stasi-like Police that Black people seem to encounter daily and I wonder why that is - I know, it must be because I'm white! That can be the only single solitary reason for remaining alive after my encounters I guess, it was just down to my skin colour and absolutely nothing else :D
 
NVP said:
If awareness is the issue simply sending pamphlets or emails will notify more people than traffic stops, and can be done at any frequency.

It may not have the same individual impact, but it will affect a larger audience and provide constant awareness.
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This is all over twitter and facebook.
 
I believe that Formula 1 cars have some cunning mechanism for detecting the temperature and pressure of tyres.
My car has a means of detecting a deflating tyre (TPMS) - something to do with ABS I believe.
I suspect that the Police were bored or fulfilling a KPI quota?
 
dowie said:
Wonder if we'll ever learn the truth of the Dawn Butler Smollett incident... like she could allow the bodycam footage to be released any time... strange how she seemingly only wanted her mobile phone footage out there for the media to take a look at and talk about racism etc...
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That's because she is a race baiter its her whole career can't stand the woman.
 
jpaul said:
last/6mth encounter with the police
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Sorry I meant thats you out due to the 'normal people' range. :p

ianh said:
:D

I must have been pulled a dozen plus times in Lincoln/Stoke in the mid 2000's as I was a mid 20's guy driving a Nissan R34 (expensive Japanese car) during the height of the Fast & Furious & "cruises" scene. I was always polite, always answered their questions, never got angry, remained calm and never got aggressive with the folks just doing their job.

Strangely however I was never beaten, tazered, dragged from the car and arrested or had any negative outcome at all from any of the incidents involving the brutal fascist Stasi-like Police that Black people seem to encounter daily and I wonder why that is - I know, it must be because I'm white! That can be the only single solitary reason for remaining alive after my encounters I guess, it was just down to my skin colour and absolutely nothing else :D
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So you do know that people get pulled or stopped and searched for very different reasons and have very different outcomes right?
NVP said:
You mean this dawn butler?

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Haha.
 
Tony Edwards said:
So you do know that people get pulled or stopped and searched for very different reasons and have very different outcomes right?
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Yes I do, and do you know that if people stay calm, act sensibly & rationally and do what they're asked (even if they disagree with it at the time) then the outcome is usually far less dangerous for everyone involved?

If they want to they are then free to complain to the Police about the event afterwards and will probably get an apology as well, but "kicking off" (my choice of words) or getting angry with the Officers at the time does nothing but guarantee a far more negative experience for everyone involved.

After the 4th-5th time I was annoyed at being pulled yet again but that didn't make me think that is was OK to act in an openly hostile way to the Police who continued to pull me over. Instead I acted as I always did, regardless of any feelings of annoyance I may have felt, and therefore none of my interactions escalated like I see happening in Ms Butlers video.

But ,again, some people think that the way I was treated must only be because of my White privilege and absolutely no other reason :D
 
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