Category: Policing
One more reason not to visit America
December 19th, 2011, No Comments
Thin skinned, thick as shit police. From the description of the video:
Here’s the scene:
We were enjoying the nice spring weather from our balcony. A friend was visiting on his bike, and he rode up on the sidewalk from the street to our front door. In NYC this is illegal. You are supposed to stop in [...]
Politicised punishment
August 3rd, 2011, No Comments
The Flying Rodent expands on the same Blood & Treasure post I commented on below and argues:
Similarly, judges frown upon people being assaulted in the Houses of Parliament and attacks on policemen, not least because they also frown upon attacks on judges, but also because the H’es of P and the cops are symbols of [...]
Police murderer says Ian Tomlinson “almost invited a physical confrontation”
April 7th, 2011, No Comments
From the Evening Standard:
The policeman who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground moments before he died blamed him for provoking the clash, the inquest heard today.
Pc Simon Harwood said that 47-year-old newspaper seller had “almost invited a physical confrontation” during the G20 protest in London .
He went on to claim that his police training entitled [...]
Meanwhile last week in London…
February 7th, 2011, No Comments
During the Uncut/student protests the last weekend of January, some poor protestor did not get out of the way fast enough for this copper. Jonathan Warren managed to snap the exact moment.
In more important news, somebody called Aaron Porter, ineffectual supposed leader of the students’ union, a bad name. He thought it was an anti-semitic [...]
The kids are alright
December 11th, 2010, No Comments
I don’t know who this kid is, but I do know he’ll be taken the mick out something fierce if this video goes viral. We don’t like young, earnest kids talking politics, especially leftwing politics, it’s all a bit cringeworthy, naive and definately not cool. But the kid is right. His generation, the children of [...]
They’re not called special constables because they’re so great
September 30th, 2010, No Comments
Special constables are numpties to thick to be in the real police and desperate enough to become pretend cops for free. On the positive side they don’t get or require the same training as proper police officers get and are usually the most reactionary and racist part of the police force. So it makes perfect [...]
How to torture children the ministry of justice approved way
July 18th, 2010, No Comments
More news to make you forget any nostalgia for New Labour you may have had. It turns out the Ministry of Justice has written a torture manual on how to restrain children in private prisons, according to the Observer:
Some of the restraint and self-defence measures approved by the Ministry of Justice include ramming knuckles into [...]
2nd Most Powerful British Woman A Homophobe
May 12th, 2010, No Comments
The Tories are indeed running true to form.
The Public Whip (via Charlie Brooker on Twitter) reveals that Theresa May, Britain’s new Home Secretary and Secretary for Women and Equal Rights (including gay rights) has voted ‘moderately against’ gay rights during her career as an MP.
Is it even possible to be ‘moderately’ homophobic? Homophobia strikes me [...]
Strict Nanny…*
May 12th, 2010, No Comments
(*In the voice of Marcus Brigstocke)
Theresa May gets Home Secretary, making her most powerful woman in the country after the Queen.
The Tories run true to form. They do like a firm hand…
‘If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next’
May 4th, 2010, No Comments
Today is the 40th anniversary of the National Guard’s shootings of student Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University in Ohio.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – earlier today Martin posted about unwarranted police violence at a peaceable, permitted May Day protest in Rotterdamand this was his view on why the police [...]
