Now, I'm not averse to giving the police a doing over, myself, when they clearly deserve it.
But... I couldn't see quite where I was supposed to get too excited about this video. Because they weren't 'beating' her, they were clearly restraining her, and she was clearly not co-operating.
And I had the uncomfortable feeling that the reason some people were getting so hot under the collar was her sex...
Now, remember that what got her into the cells (back in 2011 - this is NOT a new story!) in the first place was a row with her boyfriend sufficiently vicious that the police had to be called. whereupon it's claimed she assaulted three cops. And yet this is no longer, it seems, enough to disqualify anyone from the title of 'a woman on good character'?!
I can can remember where a row with your boyfriend resulted in icy looks, burnt dinners and the witholding of feminine affection, not a vanload of TSG and a night in the cells being required to sort things out.
And I'm apparently considered strange for holding that view. I must want innocent women beaten up in the cells, right?
The conversation didn't go very far after that, with the new definition of 'troll' being applied ('Person who disagrees with me and won't back down, damnit!').
But I'm afraid the increasingly hysterical attempts to persuade me of the rightness of their cause cut no ice at all.
What we have here looks bad, yes. Much was made of 'Oooh, it's four against one!', as if there were some Queensbury Rules that police were bound to follow...
But just how are the police to deal with non-cooperative prisoners, other than force? When it seems every adult they arrest is merely a child in an adult's body, and this is the first time they've ever met anyone prepared to tell them 'No. You can't..' and make it stick? Had she self-harmed, they'd be for the high-jump!
The people criticising the police would be the first to call them if their sleep was disturbed by a violent domestic row. Criticising them for what they have to do to resolve that is like criticising your dustman for dumping your rubbish in landfill rather than making a work of art out of it...
"I can can remember where a row with your boyfriend resulted in icy looks, burnt dinners and the witholding of feminine affection, .......
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm apparently considered strange for holding that view. "
Not necessarily 'strange', but certainly un-PC. ;-)
The discipline and effort required to cut this impartial image can only be applauded, Julia.
ReplyDeleteEver thought of progressing to Holocaust denial?
Police, Solicitors, Doctors,just a few of the jobs at which every arse- hole that has never been there, thinks they could do better.
ReplyDeleteIt always looks bad but you need a policeman on each limb as a minimum and possibly one holding the head.The head man for control and to stop the prisoner banging his/her head on the floor.Any limb left unrestrained is one that can punch or kick you in the face-unlike Melvin i've been there on numerous occasions.
ReplyDeleteI've tried Melvins route of using Latin phrases or other clever tongue-twisters to calm violent people down but it generally doesn't work.
FT is right as well-everyone's an expert at my job except me.
Jaded
"Not necessarily 'strange', but certainly un-PC. ;-)"
ReplyDeleteAnd proud of it! :)
"The discipline and effort required to cut this impartial image can only be applauded, Julia. "
I've never found impartiality to be something requiring effort. It comes naturally.
"Police, Solicitors, Doctors,just a few of the jobs at which every arse- hole that has never been there, thinks they could do better."
Well, yes. Sometimes, I could!
"It always looks bad but you need a policeman on each limb as a minimum and possibly one holding the head.The head man for control and to stop the prisoner banging his/her head on the floor."
Well, quite. I can't help wonder if the reason no fuss is being made about this incident is because it was a man.
But that's not 'equality', is it?