Your stance on Police Brutality?

[Louis Van Boxel Woolf]

Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMhGZhOP8w

And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6THfDGy1hN4&feature=related

This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBWoZY8lHM

They all demonstrate how the Police widely abuse their power in Britain and how political freedoms are slowly being curtailed! I think this is disgusting!
UPDATES
Video 1. The innocent man walking away is called Ian Tomlinson, he was pushed over, he later died of internal bleeding! Yet that policeman is currently still working in the Police Force, he has not been prosecuted! If i commited mansluaghter (2nd degree murder to you Americans) i would have ATLEAST gone to jail for a month, that Policeman is walking way free.
Video 2. The Policeman who hit the woman WILL NOT RECEIVE HIS BONUS as a punishment! The Police also said peaceful protestors could leave police lines or "kettles" if they wanted to or if they needed medical help, could she leave? No! And when she tried she was hit to the ground! And look at this man who needs medical help:

Are the Police letting him through?
Video 3. The man hit with a shield now has brain damage, that policeman was not punished at all!
Look at this!

Oh dear!
And policeman removed their ID tags so people could not complain about them! I am disgusted, but what is your opinion?

[EvilDarkMagicians]

Of course there too harsh...They were the english police for god sakes...they do the same at football matches.

[United Russian State]

They have a tough and stressful job. If they say "get back" or something and you don't expect some punishment.

[Scarsaw]

They have a tough and stressful job. If they say "get back" or something and you don't expect some punishment.

Agreed.

[Muratonia]

They're doing their job its tough, stressful and aggressive if people don't fuck around in the first place stuff like that wouldn't happen.

[Free Soviets]

They have a tough and stressful job.

aww, poor babies

[GetBert]

Police brutality is not acceptable, but it also isn't that common.

[Codawa]

Looks like a protest got out of hand. The police only do what they are told over the radio. Just think about how stressfull that job would be in a big city.

[Chrobalta]

Don't tase me bro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XWijwmvGU4

[EvilDarkMagicians]

They used a technique called kettling, where they keep people in one place (a large group of people)...they had no toilets or places to get water.

[Nineteen Halves]

They have a tough and stressful job. If they say "get back" or something and you don't expect some punishment.

This is not even a sentence.

What you are saying is that we should always defer to the government without thinking? (Not to take it to its logical extreme or anything.)

[Yootopia]

Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMhGZhOP8w

And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6THfDGy1hN4&feature=related

This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBWoZY8lHM

They all demonstrate how the Police widely abuse their power in Britain and how political freedoms are slowly being curtailed! I think this is disgusting!

Eh they have a bloody hard job, and with thousands of people shouting at them and such, as well as them getting absolutely no good coverage in the press, it'd be hard not to be tempted to punch a few protestors in the face tbqh. One guy died due to police 'brutality' out of tens of thousands - overall they did pretty well I think.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

I love the police...I always wave at them..they never wave back .
I hate being a teenage hoody.

[Fnordgasm 5]

Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMhGZhOP8w

And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6THfDGy1hN4&feature=related

This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBWoZY8lHM

They all demonstrate how the Police widely abuse their power in Britain and how political freedoms are slowly being curtailed! I think this is disgusting!

Eh they have a bloody hard job, and with thousands of people shouting at them and such, as well as them getting absolutely no good coverage in the press, it'd be hard not to be tempted to punch a few protestors in the face tbqh. One guy died due to police 'brutality' out of tens of thousands - overall they did pretty well I think.

I don't know, I think that being held against my will without access to toilets or water as well as being denied my right to protest would make me kinda angry..

[United Russian State]

They have a tough and stressful job. If they say "get back" or something and you don't expect some punishment.

This is not even a sentence.

What you are saying is that we should always defer to the government without thinking? (Not to take it to its logical extreme or anything.)

I don't see how it is not a sentence, but I wouldn't care if it is or not. Anyone can see what I was saying.

No. What I am saying is if you ignore orders from police, they have the right to use force. They are dealing with a large number of people who many are aggresive. Under that much streess I would expect that to happen.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

They have a tough and stressful job. If they say "get back" or something and you don't expect some punishment.

This is not even a sentence.

What you are saying is that we should always defer to the government without thinking? (Not to take it to its logical extreme or anything.)

Makes sense enough to me.

[Praetonia]

Like many on this thread I am heartily in favour of brutality and believe that anyone who does not prostrate themselves before the august servants of the God-State should welcome the vicious beating they so richly deserve.

[Fnordgasm 5]

They have a tough and stressful job. If they say "get back" or something and you don't expect some punishment.

This is not even a sentence.

What you are saying is that we should always defer to the government without thinking? (Not to take it to its logical extreme or anything.)

I don't see how it is not a sentence, but I wouldn't care if it is or not. Anyone can see what I was saying.

No. What I am saying is if you ignore orders from police, they have the right to use force. They are dealing with a large number of people who many are aggresive. Under that much streess I would expect that to happen.

You mean people they'd rounded up and forced to stay in the same spot with no just cause?

[Muratonia]

They have a tough and stressful job.

aww, poor babies

I would pay to see you as a police officer

[Reavani]

Well, of course English police are going to start getting out of hand.

You're getting anti-stab knives

and you don't have guns from what I hear

So you can't fight back when England goes into a totalitarian iron fisted Police state.


I however can...


Because I'm American like that.

Amer-I-CAN

[Yootopia]

I don't know, I think that being held against my will without access to toilets or water as well as being denied my right to protest would make me kinda angry..

Eh people could leave the police kettles down designated routes. The people who pissed on themselves or complained about lacking food and water were making themselves martyrs to a bankrupt cause.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

Well, of course English police are going to start getting out of hand.

You're getting anti-stab knives

and you don't have guns from what I hear

So you can't fight back when England goes into a totalitarian iron fisted Police state.


I however can...


Because I'm American like that.

Amer-I-CAN

I'm glad we didn't have guns there...our precious police might have died somehow and thats not good is it?

[Loria Aesir]

The British police have always been over the top in these situations. They love protests, riots and football violence. Just and excuse to beat on people and get away with it.

[Yootopia]

Well, of course English police are going to start getting out of hand.

You're getting anti-stab knives

Erm?

and you don't have guns from what I hear

Eh farmers do, and it's not like it's hard to get a license for a shotgun or long-rifle. Nearly impossible to get a handgun, but then what are they really useful for other than shooting at people?

So you can't fight back when England goes into a totalitarian iron fisted Police state.

Absolutely pishing myself about this ALL THE TIME, aye. A protestor dies due to what was roundly seens as pretty bad policing tbqh, and OHSHIT our rights have vanished, redcoats come to shoot us for disagreeing with New Labour, we drop nukes on Ireland or something etc.

I however can...

Because I'm American like that.

Amer-I-CAN

Of course, your .22 is going to be amazingly effective when the Forces Of Evil Oppression simply drop a JDAM on your house and fuck off back to their airport for tea. Personally I'd rather not have the hilarious yet tragic impression that owning small arms is going to stop any kind of totalitarian state in its tracks. Didn't help the Iraqis. Didn't help the Jews in Warsaw. Won't magically help you Americans.

[Jordaxia]

I find it absolutely amazing that people here are essentially saying 'as long as you have irritated/disobeyed a police officer, they are allowed to assault you with no fear of consequence. I mean really? You understand that police officers are there to 'enforce the law' right? They can't just tell you what to do?

And the stressful job excuse? Yeah. They volunteered for a job to protect the people. If they use the power allocated to them to bully the people, I start to think maybe their goal was nothing more than a cover.

I'm sure that there are plenty of good police officers. But their superiors have got to stop covering the asses of officers who abuse their power. It's ruining the image of the police force.