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Re: Guess what verdict the cop got
Apr 07, 2010, 15:59
Daminxa wrote:
Getting right up in someone's face and shouting at them and swearing at them is aggressive, violent behaviour in my opinion. The lady in question was guilty of that. It didn't mean she deserved a clobbering, in fact it demonstrates that the cop in question had very poor conflict resolution skills, but to paint ALL coppers as violent thugs and ALL protestors as peaceful isn't entirely accurate, is it? There's blame on both sides.


The way I see it is that the police are supposedly there to "keep the peace". The protesters are there to protest. The police should be well prepared for verbal aggression from protestors. They are trained and equipped to deal with even physical violence. And yet they dished out physical violence to a woman who was merely giving them verbals.

Thus not only did the police fail in their task (keeping the peace), they were also guilty of the very thing they were meant to be preventing - violence.

The phrase "not fit for purpose" springs to mind.
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