It's 'Compare And Contrast' Time Again!

Remembrance Sunday:

A video has been circulated online which appears to show a military piper being shoved to the ground by a Metropolitan police officer.

The piper, identified by the cameraman as a veteran, appears to march at the police barricade being guarded by masked Met police officers.

In the video, an officer then appears to shove the piper away from the line and the man stumbles backwards before falling to the ground.

Yesterday:

Widower Donald Bell, 64, and mother-of-two Anne White, 53, were blasted by furious veterans, MPs and the families of fallen soldiers for the climate change stunt that went unchallenged by police.

The demonstrators, who were joined by two others, trampled over wreaths and unveiled a banner reading 'Honour Their Sacrifice, Climate Change Means War' on the 100th anniversary of the memorial in central London.

...it took the Metropolitan Police at least half an hour to take this down, despite one of their cars being parked within sight of the monument.

The police often liken themselves to sheepdogs, guarding the flock of society against wolves and rustlers. 

Well, if I owned a sheepdog that savaged the odd sheep whenever it felt like it, and rolled over to show its belly whenever a rustler showed up with a van, it'd be taking a one way trip to the vet... 

 

Sparing No Expense...

...for some families. Though not for others:

Their comments came as Robert Trigg was yesterday jailed for life for their daughter’s murder in 2011 and the manslaughter of Caroline Devlin in 2006.

Neither death was thought suspicious by police at the time, who were described as treating the killer like a bereaved lover rather than a suspect. He was not questioned by police until November after Ms Nicholson’s parents spent six years and thousands of pounds investigating the deaths themselves.

Compare this with the oceans of public funding spent on the Lawrences and the McCanns.

What a pity their daughter didn't mysteriously die in Portugal, it might have been holiday season...

Judge Simler praised Ms Nicholson’s family for fighting “doggedly and continuously” for justice. Mr Skelton, 83, of Goring, claimed he and his wife Elizabeth, 81, were not taken seriously by a string of public bodies.He called for a public inquiry, for investigations and conclusions on other deaths in similar circumstances to be reviewed, and said he was considering taking legal action against the force.

Mrs Skelton, who had a heart attack during their campaign, said: “The fight still goes on. We still seek answers to unexplained questions. Why is it the police were unable to bring this case to court when we, Susan’s parents in our eighties, managed to?”

Why indeed? It seems to have come down to resources:

Sussex Police apologised for the delay in getting justice for the families and referred how they handled the original investigations to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The court heard there was a row over money when the coroner told police a more thorough post-mortem on Ms Devlin should be carried out.

Probably cost a fraction of the police budget that went on kitting out their cars in rainbow colours to support 'Pride'...