reohn2 wrote:Vorpal Sorry I was meaning in the UK,but I take your point it seems to me the US system is broken,though viewed from afar it seems to me most of their systems are broken
Yeah, unfortunately lots of stuff is broken. I think part of what is driving the protests is that many people didn't really realise how broken it was until mass electronic communication & social media told them that other systems work better. Some people still don't realise it.
Agreed,I'd suggest many those people eho don't realise it don't wish to look,"there are nome so blind as them that won't see" as I've posted a few times recently.
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Thinking about this earlier (wonderful how cycling promotes reflection!). I guess in the US police officers don't only have to assume anybody could be carrying a firearm but that if a civilian gets their weapon they could well know where the safety catch is, how to get the first bullet into the chamber etc. It's not just that fewer UK officers have a firearm; very few ordinary people actually know how to use one.
It's not necessarily an excuse for US police behaviour, but you can imagine tbat keeping your own firearm must loom large in police officers' minds when things go pear-shaped.
Sorry, but in this country it is still possible for police officers to walk away with pension intact, no disciplinary proceedings even when there is a prima fascia case against them! I had a forces Chief Officer banged to rights for falsifying custody record, attempting to pervert the course of justice and even mis-conduct in office? Wandered off into the sunset of his years! I then had officers from his force giving me chapter & verse about how he ran his bally-wick,bit like the Dukes of Hazard. Custodis et Custodis! MM
Ben@Forest wrote:Thinking about this earlier (wonderful how cycling promotes reflection!). I guess in the US police officers don't only have to assume anybody could be carrying a firearm but that if a civilian gets their weapon they could well know where the safety catch is, how to get the first bullet into the chamber etc. It's not just that fewer UK officers have a firearm; very few ordinary people actually know how to use one.
It's not necessarily an excuse for US police behaviour, but you can imagine tbat keeping your own firearm must loom large in police officers' minds when things go pear-shaped.
There's something wrong over there..... The link is a police body cam video of a police officer challenging a black man next to his own apartment block for picking up litter,a truly bizarre incident,but from others I've seen it doesn't surprise me. Please watch an be amazed :- https://youtu.be/Q9SZlypyK-4
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
Ben@Forest wrote:Thinking about this earlier (wonderful how cycling promotes reflection!). I guess in the US police officers don't only have to assume anybody could be carrying a firearm but that if a civilian gets their weapon they could well know where the safety catch is, how to get the first bullet into the chamber etc. It's not just that fewer UK officers have a firearm; very few ordinary people actually know how to use one.
It's not necessarily an excuse for US police behaviour, but you can imagine tbat keeping your own firearm must loom large in police officers' minds when things go pear-shaped.
There's something wrong over there..... The link is a police body cam video of a police officer challenging a black man next to his own apartment block for picking up litter,a truly bizarre incident,but from others I've seen it doesn't surprise me. Please watch an be amazed :- https://youtu.be/Q9SZlypyK-4
Not amazing. Sad.
When wondering why the latest victim ran, remember it might have been due to his past experience of the police, as described memorably but swearily by Trevor Noah regarding another topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlL05Qto8mM
MJR, mostly pedalling 3-speed roadsters. KL+West Norfolk BUG incl social easy rides http://www.klwnbug.co.uk All the above is CC-By-SA and no other implied copyright license to Cycle magazine.
Given the recent prominence of police killing a handcuffed black man, people are saying that a black man was justifiably killed because he resisted being handcuffed?
There are a lot of questions about what it all means and what should happen next. But I think that pulling down that statue on that day was a good thing.
When wondering why the latest victim ran, remember it might have been due to his past experience of the police, as described memorably but swearily by Trevor Noah regarding another topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlL05Qto8mM
Maybe he was thinking of George Floyd.
“In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Oldjohnw wrote:I see a bunch of protectors of the statues have been protecting George Eliot's statue in Nuneaton.
Do they actually know who she was?
If they did they'd know her effigy moremthan likely didn't need protecting
In Newcastle they were 'protecting' Earl Grey's Monument. Earl Grey was the PM of the government which ended slavery. The monument is on a pedestal 135' high. Not sure what BLM people were going to do.
How do these people manage to tie their laces?
And if you are an anti- anti-fascist what does that make you?
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