There was widespread outrage when the force made the claims in a press release on Monday that “a total of 20 officers were assaulted or injured and two of them were taken to hospital after suffering broken bones. One of them also suffered a punctured lung.”
But in an updated press release on Wednesday, the force clarified this was not true, saying: “Thankfully, following a full medical assessment of the two officers taken to hospital, neither were found to have suffered confirmed broken bones.”
And the lung..? Not punctured?
Around the same time, a BBC reporter said on Twitter that Andy Marsh, the head of the force, had admitted in a press conference that no officer had a punctured lung.
Whoops!
Avon and Somerset police have said they are expecting further protests this week.I hope they are all in training for it...
The truly sad thing, in my experience, is that even in Grammar Schools, ability on the sports field counted for much more than academic ability. The second bit of my experience is that the sports superstars at school were quite capable of faking injury to get themselves out of something they didn't want to do.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid that it has given me a lifelong aversion to all team sports, players and spectators.
Compulsive liars.
ReplyDeleteOnly a fool would stand within spittle range of plod or credit any statement from their lying tongues.
Yet another nail in the coffin of trust for the Police, whatever happened to the local bobby we all knew and trusted? These days people don't regard the police as society's friend and helper. To most of us they are now the agents of the government and are nothing more than its enforcers and revenue gatherers, small wonder they get treated the way they do.
ReplyDeleteI came across some interesting statistics the other day, regarding the number of laws passed by the Blair regime: I
ReplyDelete"In his ten years as Prime Minister, Tony Blair has introduced a new law every three-and-a- quarter hours, new research reveals.
Since 1997, an average of 2,685 laws have been passed every year - a 22 per cent rise on the previous decade.
They have covered subjects ranging from the importing of bed linen to the evaluation of statistics on labour costs.
The figure does not include European Union laws which also affect Britain - last year, 2,100 of those were passed, bringing the total to 4,785 or 13 every day, according to legal publishers Sweet & Maxwell.
Of the laws, 98 per cent were brought in by statutory instruments, rather than Acts of Parliament. The procedure allows less time for debate by MPs than the tabling of a Bill.
The statutes themselves have become longer, with five Acts passed last year taking more than 100 pages to explain, three of them more than 200, another above 300, another above 500 and one more than 700 pages long.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Oliver Heald said: "Tony Blair and Gordon Brown think the answer to everything is to make a new law.
"But, after creating thousands of new laws, violent crime has doubled."
A spokesman for the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, said: "Politicians often equate legislation with action.
"But the growing complexity of the law is the main reason trials are taking longer and costing more."
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-blair-years-new-law-passed-every-three-hours-6587775.html
Julia and MTG. You may well be interested in Short Fat Okatu's excellent video on the state of Britain's often lazy, malfeasant and politically corrupt police forces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSFf_J2yJAU I tend to agree with Okatu's conclusion on this issue that the Left may be correct in saying that we are being policed badly but that the solution proposed by Left which is 'defunding the police' is just as bad as having a corrupt and violent police force in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that this currently awful situation, where police will for example, ignore burglaries but instead go and arrest a twelve year old boy for a 'racist' social media comment about a footballer, will change until we change the politicians who govern over these police forces.
"I'm afraid that it has given me a lifelong aversion to all team sports, players and spectators."
ReplyDeleteIf people see an advantage in behaviour, they will carry it out. Sadly.
"Yet another nail in the coffin of trust for the Police..."
At this point, it's getting hard to distinguish any of the wood, isn't it?
"A spokesman for the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, said: "Politicians often equate legislation with action."
A classic example of 'something must be done. this is something. let's do it'..
"I tend to agree with Okatu's conclusion on this issue that the Left may be correct in saying that we are being policed badly but that the solution proposed by Left which is 'defunding the police' is just as bad as having a corrupt and violent police force in the first place."
Agreed, but at some point, that scale will tip. And I fear we're perilously near that point now.