Academic strip searched = police complaint and PTSD
Wow ... Just wow. Is this the normal thought process these days?
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Not even to ask the way? You don't come across as a gangster or related to the Kray's, far from it.....
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Not even to ask the way? You don't come across as a gangster or related to the Kray's, far from it.....
I'm impressed he can afford a retained lawyer to accompany him at all times lest a copper ask him a question.
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After finally opening the OP's link I can now see why they arrested her - They wanted to see if the collars and cuffs matched -- 
Not even to ask the way? You don't come across as a gangster or related to the Kray's, far from it.....
Asking the way is entirely casual and whatever. You'll figure it out soon enough when the police are controlled by mega-corporations.
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someones had a beer again...
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I get the impression that adhering to this advice was where this young lady went wrong. It seems that the Police felt compelled to ensure that she didn't have a WMD concealed in some bodily orifice.
Very many years ago, after a hard day's work in the City of London I was making my weary way to Liverpool St. Stn. when I was stopped by two armed Policemen. Being very much the worse for wear I threw my arms in the air and said "Don't shoot, I'm an unarmed civilian.", their response was "That's the Met, they're right ********, we're City Police; get on home and keep out of the road son.".
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Both are plausible. However, I would lean more towards the power trip line of thinking if she was compliant and was still strip searched.
It appears that the custody sergeant was doing their job. We can call it arse covering and theres no doubt in my mind that was an element. But likewise we can also call it ensuring safety of an individual in possible mental / physical distress.
Got to be cruel to be kind etc.
Her first mistake was being involved at all, that's not what i'm talking about, she's a dumb idealistic waste.
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There is good reason for it and that advice has been given by police officers. There are risks involved in freely talking to police if they stop you in an official capacity. I've done it a number of times. I was stopped and questioned a number of times in my youth due to profiling and once because I was breaking into a flat(*), but I'm not sure I'd do it now. I certainly wouldn't do it if I'd been arrested. If I was arrested, then the only words I'd speak would be to state that I won't say anything without legal advice. Unless you're a legal expert yourself, it's a risk not worth taking. Better to spend a night in a cell if necessary.
* I was renting it and I'd left my key at work, so I was trying to gain entry without doing any damage. It must have looked rather suspicious and the copper was clearly right to stop and question me.
Ms Duff's seeking a judicial review of the case and the decision of the disciplinary board to drop proceedings after accepting an argument of there being no case to answer for the custody sergeant who authorised her strip search.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-45439954
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-45439954
i'm always against the police abusing their powers, but if the police ask your name for just tell them... it's wasting their time which we pay for
lets be honest most of those who don't want to answer have something to hide..
By the sounds of it, the kid she was trying to stick up for assaulted a police officer and was found with a knife.
She then intervened, police told her to go away, which she ignored, then when police tried to physically remove her she resisted "passively".
Now the stripnsearch may have been a little OTT, but she was playing with fire and come out 2nd best.
Should have let the police do their jobs.
She then intervened, police told her to go away, which she ignored, then when police tried to physically remove her she resisted "passively".
Now the stripnsearch may have been a little OTT, but she was playing with fire and come out 2nd best.
Should have let the police do their jobs.
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The case speaks volumes about the fact the University of Nottingham is apparently still employing a woman who resists police arrest and has to be forcibly searched once in custody at the police station by being tied up and then sat on whilst her clothes are cut away with scissors.
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I.e she got hit a dose of common sense that didn't reconcile with her wrapped view of the world.
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Why wouldn't they still employ her? She hasn't been convicted of a crime as far as I'm aware.
She has been previously convicted for pursuing 'direct action' for social justice in another incident ... Details are in this thread