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Nasty policeman told off for swearing
BillieTheBot
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1202424/Policeman-rapped-swearing-violent-knife-wielding-thug-threatened-kill-officer.html
This "man" is just evidence of everything wrong with a system that promotes rights but without responsibilities.
Anywhere else and this guy would have been gunned down and the police hailed as heroes for taking a violent offender off the streets.
In the UK he decides to make a complaint and sell his story to the press about how scared his is now of the police (yeah, right) because one cop swore at him, and the profesional standards unit acually act on it.
Ridiculous.
This "man" is just evidence of everything wrong with a system that promotes rights but without responsibilities.
Anywhere else and this guy would have been gunned down and the police hailed as heroes for taking a violent offender off the streets.
In the UK he decides to make a complaint and sell his story to the press about how scared his is now of the police (yeah, right) because one cop swore at him, and the profesional standards unit acually act on it.
Ridiculous.
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Agreed. They take the outrageously phoney stuff on, and the real abuses hardly ever result in prosecutions.
It is his right to make a complaint, though, and it should be investigated. Not that it takes long to do that and then send him on his way.
I can't remember whether it mentioned it or not but if he had taken something, obviously by that I mean drugs or even alcohol, then it can affect whether people feel pain as much and thus it wouldn't have such an effect on a person. So it would be possible, and this case evidently demonstrates that.
It depends on lots of factors, normally the barbs are quite difficult to remove but if they hit clothing they can become loose.
Even for people high on drink and drugs they normally feel it, it might be that the effects wore off immediately so he pulled them out in a "lull".
Anything's possible with The Daily Mail's reporting. I suspect he was either bravely pulling out a brutal policeman's taser while whittling a Princess Di tribute and singing the national anthem, OR, he was tasered by a brave policeman after being caught trying to force-feed benefits to immigrants.
Seriously, why's the The Daily Hate still popping up as people's source of information?
I would have a lot more sympathy for the cops if it had been in the heat of the moment, but it wasn't - it was after he'd been searched.
Now the amount of times I've been arrested simply for swearing (even in a non agressive manner) means I have little sympathy for the cop. Find it quite amusing actaully. Either we can ALL swear or we ALL can't.
But remember when panorama unveiled that PCs in Leicestershire were ignoring rape victims and watching porn in the common room? It is about whether the professional standards have been breached, and I think anyone who comes into contact with the police and feels that is the case not only has a right to report it, but an obligation, because afterall the police should be a publicly accountable body.
Not sure the anger management training was warranted, seems like an overreaction to cover themselves and make it look like they're doing something, but then I don't know the specifics of what happened.
Anyway, I am also reminded now of a story published recently that swearing can be good for you and can reduce levels of pain. So with that in mind, I shall go away for a few minutes and endlessly shout obscenities at the wall.