Comments on: Excessive force yes or no

By: william

william — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:12:49 +0000

Perhaps the officer punching would like to meet the victim out of uniform on his own and discuss it with him? Thought not

By: Hogday

Hogday — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:05:12 +0000

Agree with ASNT. When my `red mist` came down as a proby, the first I knew was when i suddenly couldn’t move my arms – my colleagues had grabbed me. What a lesson.

By: Area Trace No Search

Area Trace No Search — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:15:06 +0000

As you said, after getting bitten it seems more than reasonable.

To me it doesn’t look like a bloke who has lost it anyway – if he had truly lost it and gone for the suspect surely he would be punching the guy in the head or the face?

Refusal to get the cuffs on results in a dead arm – and the handcuffs placed on the suspect at last.

So when we meeting up for a beer…!?

By: annette

annette — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:04:35 +0000

glad your back

By: Custard Skipper

Custard Skipper — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:07:08 +0000

Usual story, or rather half a story, media jump up and down, staight away we are in the wrong, don’t see them making such a fuss when we get assaulted violently rather than what appears to be distraction blows!

By: pcsouthwest

pcsouthwest — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:17:25 +0000

I heard somewhere that this guy had bitten one of the officers? I would say this was very reasonable if that was the case.

By: justacop

justacop — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:47:14 +0000

I would agree with your view, when I heard about the story I was expecting to see an officer punching the guy to the face. The offender clearly did no want to go with the officers and the officer does indeed appear to be trying to deaden the guys arm in order to bring it around the back for cuffing. As usual, only a snippet of the footage shown, does not show the behaviour beforehand so trial by media again. Strikes me as similar ‘outcry’ to that girl that got punched behind the nightclub a while back, officer was perfectly justified then.