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Originally Posted by Sid  I knew there'd be some heated debate on this subject, but it's getting a bit personal now.
I'll try to keep a level head.
First, the pants down part. I wasn't trying to suggest they were trying to rape her at all. I can understand why you'd think I was hinting at that but what sprung to my mind was the black man who was left to die on the floor of a police station, he had his pants down as well.
I was thinking more along the lines of it being something like it being rather difficult to run away with your pants around your ankles.
As for the way they subdued the woman I can see where both of you are coming from. Opposite ends of the scale.
I can imagine Will never having had a brush with the law and seeing them as an honorable bunch of gentleman, which they most definitely aren't, whereas Skinny and myself having been on the receiving end of police restraint techniques, me being mostly by German police who all seem to be bigger, but I digress. |
So you're going to base you argument now on the assumption that a) I've never had a brush with the law, and b) The police are all exactly the same? Apart from being wrong it's hardly a rock solid argument. Let's stick to the facts shall we. He was in danger of having serious damage done to his testicles, so he hit her as hard as he could on the arm to prevent her from doing so. I don't think this is heavy handed, most people would have knocked her clean out. Quote:
| If anybody thinks that the police weren't heavy handed they need their head testing. It doesn't take two, let alone three burly policemen to restrain a 9 stone drunken women. |
It does when she's acting out extremely agressively, when they have to try and restrain her as humanely as possibly. One person could have twatted her round the head with his truncheon and she's be out cold. Quote:
| They were getting her back for attacking them, and if you don't think this sort of thing happens Will you're sadly mistaken. |
Of course it does, but what the officer did was justified. If he was beating her round the head as you suggest, I doubt the other police or even the security would have stood for it. Certainly we'd have heard a different story from one of them by now.
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The police in this case were far too heavy handed. They were more than likely sick to the teeth of all the trouble from all the other drunkards on the night and took out their frustrations out on a girl.
In my humble opinion the policeman involved is nothing but a bullying prick who more than likely went into the job to try and be somebody instead of the big, daft, brainless waste of space he must have been before he became a policeman.
Does anyone know a policeman who has friends outside the police force? |
Yep tons, I used to work behind a bar in a golf club and many of it's members were in the force. So the picture you're trying to paint of the police force being nothing more then a bunch of brainless thugs is lost on me, because I know it is simply bollocks.
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It's a job that nobody in his right mind would do. You need to be a special kind of person to do it. Special meaning whatever you want to say it is. It's a job that does need doing but the current police force is full of brainless no-hopers who are only in it for the money and the early pension.
Arseholes doing an arse of a job! |
More bollocks plain and simple.