What is it with the police?
Ian Tomlinson, a homeless newspaper salesman, was pushed to the ground by a police officer and an inquest jury ruled he had been 'unlawfully killed' and that the police officer used 'excessive and unreasonable force' which led to his death.
The Gwent Police attack the car of a 73 year old with boots and batons, so severely that they cause £9800 worth of damage, for nothing more than a minor traffic infringement.
Read it HERE
They are viewed by a large part of the population as the enemy rather than the protector of the public.
They present, and seem to relish, in presenting a frightening appearance, clad more like para-militarists than bobbies.
Now Chorley police attack a blind 62 year old man with a Taser, a 50,000 volt electric stun gun, for carrying a white stick which they thought was a Samurai sword!
I don't know which is worse, the fact that they attacked an innocent man, or that they can't tell the difference between a white stick and a sword.
See if you can differentiate between them
(the sword is on the right).
I wonder how much longer 'policing by consent' can survive in such circumstances, and while this seems to be the vision of 21st Century policing.
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