Caporegime
Asking someone their name isn't harassment. It's unfortunate that he'd already been asked prior to it. However if he hadn't acted like a prat there wouldn't be an issue. He did nothing to help himself.
Police Taser their own race relations adviser in Bristol
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Asking someone their name isn't harassment. It's unfortunate that he'd already been asked prior to it. However if he hadn't acted like a prat there wouldn't be an issue. He did nothing to help himself.
Soldato
LOL.
So true.
Its so funny reading the responses you can see who has a problem with police "I AINT TELLIN YOU MY NAME BRUV" and us, the normal people who don't really care if a police officer asks us our names or pulls us over for a random traffic stop, just be a reasonable, calm person and you won't ever get tasered.
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Some of us even appreciate the Police and want to make their life easier so they have more time to catch criminals.
The neighbour clearly states in the video "that is my neighbour he's just trying to get into his house"
Caporegime
Right. How do you know this gentleman is a trustworthy source?
Houses can be registered in others people's names as well. In short saying it's 'my house' and someone saying 'it's his house' means absolutely nothing.
As I said earlier in the thread, I have the keys for 5 or 6 houses andany will be known as my house to the neighbours. I live in none of them.
So your first choice is to go straught up to him arrest him physically restain him and when he resists taser him. Because thats exactly what happened.
He cant just be magically peaceful in your scenario
Your second approach relies on the officer personally knowing bob smith so is invalid
Then I expect the police to be able to handle the situation better.
There have been massive mistakes made here, the tasering and physical assault of a member of the public is not a desired out come.
Either arrest the suspect or don't harass him, it's not a difficult concept.
There have been massive mistakes made here, the tasering and physical assault of a member of the public is not a desired out come.
Either arrest the suspect or don't harass him, it's not a difficult concept.
There's a big difference between "sir you are under arrest" and "tell us your name, stop, don't move, tell us your name etc etc"
I wonder how the situation would have gone down with the upstanding member of the public had it been clear from the start he was a genuine suspect and not just being harassed.
"Tell me your name" "no" is perfectly fine, I've been pulled over many a time and asked where I'm heading, and a simple "why?" Is enough to get the police to cease with their questions.
If I get pulled over and told I'm under arrest, there's a big difference.
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How is this thread still going?! the police believed he was a person that was wanted, they asked him his name, he refused to identify himself, police have reasonable suspision that he is the person they are looking for but he refuses to identify himself so quite rightly so they arrest him until they can determine his identity. He resisted arrest so based on his actions in the video they used what i would deem reasonable force to subdue him. Guy was an idiot, deserved it.
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Associate
apart from, the fact that in the video shown, not once did they tell him he was under arrest until after he was tazered.
they started with if you dont tell me your name you will be under arrest.
thats is not good enough.
He was either free to go about his business of going home with his dog, or he was under arrest for being coloured.
they started with if you dont tell me your name you will be under arrest.
thats is not good enough.
He was either free to go about his business of going home with his dog, or he was under arrest for being coloured.
Soldato
COLOURED?!?!?! xD HAHAHAhahhahaha what next, calling them darkies?
You must be around 14 or 45?
Caporegime
You don't have to arrest someone to Tazer them. How many times does that have to be said?
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Someone on here will be suggesting the old dosser should be canonized for his "race relations" prowess next.... <LOL> Amazing how professionally these advisers present themselves. Has he been sacked yet?
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since thats all the evidence they had to go on that the suspect was a colour man...
wow all you like...
Just seems like bad form all round.
He should and could have simply told them his name, that he lived just there and had already been mistaken for the person they were looking for. 2 minutes later he can get on with his life and the police can carry on looking.
Its an inconvenience for him sure but don't blame the police for that, blame the people in your community that broke the law that you happened to look like.
If he was the criminal and they didn't question him properly and he went off and mugged a granny, pooped in a letterbox or worse the public would rightfully be pretty annoyed with those two police that had him and let him walk off.
Don't know what the person they were actually looking for had done but if it was violent then him getting aggressive would have the two police on guard.
Police woman I'd say panicked a bit and could have had the muppets eye out. She should get reprimanded for that. Unless he was diving at her and she only had a chance for a snap shot she shouldn't be getting near his face.
He should and could have simply told them his name, that he lived just there and had already been mistaken for the person they were looking for. 2 minutes later he can get on with his life and the police can carry on looking.
Its an inconvenience for him sure but don't blame the police for that, blame the people in your community that broke the law that you happened to look like.
If he was the criminal and they didn't question him properly and he went off and mugged a granny, pooped in a letterbox or worse the public would rightfully be pretty annoyed with those two police that had him and let him walk off.
Don't know what the person they were actually looking for had done but if it was violent then him getting aggressive would have the two police on guard.
Police woman I'd say panicked a bit and could have had the muppets eye out. She should get reprimanded for that. Unless he was diving at her and she only had a chance for a snap shot she shouldn't be getting near his face.
How do you know that? I doubt the police would merely have "coloured bloke" as their description of a suspect.
Terrible attitude of some folk on here IMHO, almost left OcUK forums after seeing what GD was like, but decided to stay, the forums here on the whole are good and the PC tech ones especially so, so I'll stay and try to stay out of these useless debates in this section 
Nobody's going to change each others minds it seems, so its all pretty futile bickering back and forth and one upmanship point scoring, I guess?
Have made my thoughts known on this incident and I want to leave it there and not labour my point, but wow, its like a baying pack of hounds out for the kill on this GD forum at times it seems? thank heavens there is a more serious forum (The Speakers one) for more serious discussion here than this GD place ... please dont take offence GD locals, its just that this forum is not for me, or so it seems.
Now have at it before its locked.
"Oh Yes it is"
"Oh No its Not"
"Oh Yes it is"
"Oh No its not"
On and On
Like something out of a Pantomime!
EDIT, Hurf, just walk away mate, I agree with you, its futile arguing with people like this, unfortunately.
Nobody's going to change each others minds it seems, so its all pretty futile bickering back and forth and one upmanship point scoring, I guess?
Have made my thoughts known on this incident and I want to leave it there and not labour my point, but wow, its like a baying pack of hounds out for the kill on this GD forum at times it seems? thank heavens there is a more serious forum (The Speakers one) for more serious discussion here than this GD place ... please dont take offence GD locals, its just that this forum is not for me, or so it seems.
Now have at it before its locked.
"Oh Yes it is"
"Oh No its Not"
"Oh Yes it is"
"Oh No its not"
On and On
Like something out of a Pantomime!EDIT, Hurf, just walk away mate, I agree with you, its futile arguing with people like this, unfortunately.
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Caporegime
Just me that smirks knowing he actually got tazered.....IN THE FACE