Well pleased that copper got off!

[vegster]

It stinks ! once again a well protected copper thrashes an unarmed and unprotected woman. He must have been so scared especially when he was one of only a dozen or so coppers facing her.

Most cops are reasonably nice but the type that end up on riot duty are awful thugs. kick him out !

 

[Don Tmatter]

Wouldn't mess with anyone called Sgt Delroy Smellie. He must've been teased mercilessly at school.

If thats his real name, i'm Napoleon Bonaparte.

 

[Superphil]

It stinks ! once again a well protected copper thrashes an unarmed and unprotected woman. He must have been so scared especially when he was one of only a dozen or so coppers facing her.

Most cops are reasonably nice but the type that end up on riot duty are awful thugs. kick him out !

A balanced and considered view, well done.

If thats his real name, i'm Napoleon Bonaparte.

I had a customer a few years back, he was called Neil Smellie, he was also a large black man, worked at NW London Mental Health Trust. It was physically impossible to snigger while talking to him as he was f***ing massive!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I still don't understand why if someone was threatening you with a weapon in each hand you'd hit them in the thigh with your truncheon? He's either lying or incredibly badly trained

Because it's a part of the body with lots of muscle/flesh, which, if you strike it will momentarily incapacitate the person through pain, but will not cause
them lasting injury.

If you hit the shins or hands you'd risk breaking bones, which is not the idea. If you hit other areas- head, spine, neck, solar plexus etc you could even kill someone.

Therefore the outside of the thigh is the safest but most effective impact point.

(if he went for her hand by the way as you suggest she'd have moved it away sharpish and he might have caught her head or something like that)

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Well I would have assumed that disarming the person would have been the first thing which he'd have used the truncheon to hit the weapon out of her hand. Or hit on the lower half of the leg if he wanted to incapitate someone?

I'd think the thigh would be one of the least effective places to hit someone unless you just wanted to hurt them in a fairly concealed manner?

If he had hit her on the hand/wrist he would have broken her hand/wrist, pretty badly. There plenty of flesh on the upper leg which means it'll hurt like hell but wont break anything. If he aimed at the lower leg I suspect he could break her leg, but more importantly (from his point of view) he leaves his head and back exposed.

What is the point of her berating a copper when he's got f*ck all say in the matter. He hardly going to say ' you know love, your right, I'll go and tell the sarge I'm going home'.

 

[bhaexpress]

Because it's a part of the body with lots of muscle/flesh, which, if you strike it will momentarily incapacitate the person through pain, but will not cause
them lasting injury.

If you hit the shins or hands you'd risk breaking bones, which is not the idea. If you hit other areas- head, spine, neck, solar plexus etc you could even kill someone.

Therefore the outside of the thigh is the safest but most effective impact point.

(if he went for her hand by the way as you suggest she'd have moved it away sharpish and he might have caught her head or something like that)

I said that ! Still, this is NSC, a place where common sense and general knowledge are in short supply.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I know, I'm just giving it the official seal!

 

[bhaexpress]

I know, I'm just giving it the official seal!

Thank you. You tend to find that most of the people who have a bad attitude towards the Police are people with priors (such as myself actually). Having seen how bad they are in the US and many other countries I think that whilst our Police are not perfect they are still a credit to this country.

(And no, I don't read the Daily Mail).

 

[vegster]

Thank you. You tend to find that most of the people who have a bad attitude towards the Police are people with priors (such as myself actually). Having seen how bad they are in the US and many other countries I think that whilst our Police are not perfect they are still a credit to this country.

(And no, I don't read the Daily Mail).

Stop sucking up to Edna

 

[Superphil]

Thank you. You tend to find that most of the people who have a bad attitude towards the Police are people with priors .

Au contraire, I imagine a large number of them are jumped up little pipsqueaks who think they are hard, and big it up in front of friends, TV cameras etc. This women, listed as an Animal Rights Protester (was she lost?) then refused to give evidence in court. These people are so up their own arses they ain't criminals, but they are an embarrasment. Why do they think they can behave like that and then bleat to the press when they get dealt with firmly? They are a bit like the trollers and fishers who frequent message boards, typing from the safety of their own keyboards, but that might one day find out that real life can be quite harsh.

 

[bhaexpress]

Au contraire, I imagine a large number of them are jumped up little pipsqueaks who think they are hard, and big it up in front of friends, TV cameras etc. This women, listed as an Animal Rights Protester (was she lost?) then refused to give evidence in court. These people are so up their own arses they ain't criminals, but they are an embarrasment. Why do they think they can behave like that and then bleat to the press when they get dealt with firmly?

I feel personally that if you go to a gathering where you know (unless you are completely brain dead) that there will be trouble you have to be prepared for problems. The Police are only humans doing a job I certainly wouldn't want to and like the rest of us they are just as entitled to go home at the end of the day with out getting hurt. I have to say that situations like this rouse very little sympathy in me.

 

[StJimmyL]

Would it have been the same outcome if the copper wasn't called Leroy?

 

[herbicide]

Would it have been the same outcome if the copper wasn't called Leroy?

Wasn't it Delroy?

Or have I whoooooshed myself?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I would have had more sympathy for her if she'd got off her lazy arse and gone to court. Strange how she managed to make the effort to go to the press but wasn't able to go to court because of "stress". Bet if the court had paid her £26k she would have attended !

 

[Woodchip]

I would have had more sympathy for her if she'd got off her lazy arse and gone to court. Strange how she managed to make the effort to go to the press but wasn't able to go to court because of "stress". Bet if the court had paid her £26k she would have attended !

Exactly this. Lazy money grabbing unwashed scummer.