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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! I think that there's more to the story than has been reported. do tell I could but then I'd have to kill you :-) Not all police are gits Not all 'victims' are innocent. The tale triggers the 'cover up' alarms that have been sensitised by the court cases that a close relative of mine has found himself in. In some instances he's been found not guilty and been able to make claims against the police because of their 'robust' behaviour as the police have been unable to present evidence in a non self-incriminating way but such was their ambitions to 'do him' they took the cases to court anyway. In other instances the police evidence has been watered down heavily leading to minimal fines for v.serious offences. I just have v.strong suspicions that the full story has not been told and that the 'victim' was not in the wrong place at the wrong time and had no idea of the I.D. of the two plain clothed officers. The 15 year olds that I teach have very sensitive plod detection sensors. Non-plods telling them to do something would be treated to a torrent of abuse, real plods are fled from. I don't even think that it's a race issue. Teenagers, the lad was 15 at the time, have the capacity to be felons irrespective of race, age or gender. I know 'em, I teach 'em! Situations can be manipulated to mask the shortcomings of the victim. I often wonder what wondrous tales are told in court to secure the release of the accused to plague my classes :-) |
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in message .com, 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. And frankly, he should not have been charged with that. There was nothing 'careless' about the assault: it was clearly deliberate and with murderous intent. That the victim survived is remarkable. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; may contain traces of nuts, bolts or washers. |
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Nick Kew wrote:
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. Oops, I always assumed from your name that YOU were a policeman. -- Morton |
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:10:58 +0100,
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 I think that's a bit strong. If you've had no contact with them how do you conclude that they are "****ing *******s" ? |
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"Simon Brooke" wrote in message ... in message .com, 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. And frankly, he should not have been charged with that. There was nothing 'careless' about the assault: it was clearly deliberate and with murderous intent. That the victim survived is remarkable. Irrespective of whether or not the lad was suspected of or actually guilty of a serious criminal act had the police been armed it wasn't a situation (we hope) that would have warranted the firing of a weapon but the car was used in such a manner to be as deadly as a firearm. -- Pete |
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The driver plead guilty to careless driving and was convicted. Guess who brings the charges? Er, the police... Rather convenient that by only charging the driver with careless driving, to which he can quickly plead guilty and risk only a fine and a few points at most, that the helicopter footage is kept under wraps thereby saving the police force as a whole a lot of embarassment.... I wonder what the charge would have been had the drivers been black, and the cyclist PC Plod on his beat? |
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Ric wrote:
The driver plead guilty to careless driving and was convicted. Guess who brings the charges? Er, the police... ITYM the Crown Prosecution Service. -- Tony "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon |
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Nick Kew wrote:
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. Sometimes.... |
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Peter B wrote:
This was the case of a suspect in a drugs operation who was chased by two plainclothes policemen in an unmarked car. Why wre they not on bikes as well? (Another thread...) The driver plead guilty to careless driving and was convicted. And frankly, he should not have been charged with that. There was nothing 'careless' about the assault: it was clearly deliberate and with murderous intent. That the victim survived is remarkable. Irrespective of whether or not the lad was suspected of or actually guilty of a serious criminal act had the police been armed it wasn't a situation (we hope) that would have warranted the firing of a weapon but the car was used in such a manner to be as deadly as a firearm. Not unusual, a number of motorcyclist have been killed or injured down the years by coppers using vehicles as weapons. |
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