BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

Just been watching this bizarre clip on the BBC site where a cyclist appears
to be knocked off, starts running, then gets run over!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...toryid=4254616

BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

"Adrian Boliston" wrote in message
...
Just been watching this bizarre clip on the BBC site where a cyclist
appears
to be knocked off, starts running, then gets run over!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...bram=1&news=1&
nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=4254616

I think that there's more to the story than has been reported.

BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

rAdrian Boliston wrote:

Just been watching this bizarre clip on the BBC site where a cyclist
appears to be knocked off, starts running, then gets run over!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...?nbram=1&news=
1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=4254616

The police are a bunch of ****ing *******s, except I'm probably never
going to have the misfortune of having this brought home to me
personally, because I'm not white, middle-class, educated and
articulate, not a black teenager (or an electrician).

Daniele
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BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

D.M. Procida wrote:

I'm not white, middle-class, educated and articulate,
not a black teenager (or an electrician).

what are you then?

BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

D.M. Procida wrote:

because I'm not white, middle-class, educated and
articulate, not a black teenager (or an electrician).

er - "...because I'm white..." etc.

Sorry.

Daniele
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BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

vernon wrote:
"Adrian Boliston" wrote in message
...
Just been watching this bizarre clip on the BBC site where a cyclist
appears
to be knocked off, starts running, then gets run over!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...bram=1&news=1&
nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=4254616

I think that there's more to the story than has been reported.

do tell

BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

MartinM wrote:
vernon wrote:
"Adrian Boliston" wrote in message
...
Just been watching this bizarre clip on the BBC site where a cyclist
appears
to be knocked off, starts running, then gets run over!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...bram=1&news=1&
nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=4254616

I think that there's more to the story than has been reported.

do tell

They were chasing the gentleman in question as part of a drugs raid.
The two policemen in the car were in plain clothes and the car was
unmarked. The driver was subsequently convicted of Careless Driving.

As he plead guilty no evidence was shown in court.

...d

BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

Adrian Boliston wrote:
Just been watching this bizarre clip on the BBC site where a cyclist appears
to be knocked off, starts running, then gets run over!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...toryid=4254616

This was the case of a suspect in a drugs operation who was chased by
two plainclothes policemen in an unmarked car.

The driver plead guilty to careless driving and was convicted.

...d

BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

D.M. Procida wrote:

The police are a bunch of ****ing *******s, except I'm probably never
going to have the misfortune of having this brought home to me
personally, because I'm not white, middle-class, educated and
articulate, not a black teenager (or an electrician).

Our powers-that-be can be nasty even to middle-class whites, if they
think you're a bit foreign. It's happened to non-english (though
100% white) members of my family. It happened to me when I entered
England on a ferry from France driving an Italian-registered car.

But at least when the police do Bad Things (which I don't think is
all that common), they're pretty open about it. Not like the horror
of bureaucracy, let alone the sheer robbery of an institutionally
corrupt legal system.

--
Not me guv

BBC - Cyclist Chased & Hit by Police car
 

David Martin wrote:
Adrian Boliston wrote:
Just been watching this bizarre clip on the BBC site where a cyclist appears
to be knocked off, starts running, then gets run over!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...toryid=4254616

This was the case of a suspect in a drugs operation who was chased by
two plainclothes policemen in an unmarked car.

The driver plead guilty to careless driving and was convicted.

plain clothes police go OTT and get the wrong man? Shirley not? ;-)