PC cleared for knocking man off bike

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1. Great result, and a win for common sense policing.

   Once again, though, CPS have leapt at the chance to push an officer through the system and once again a Jury have quickly returned not guilty.

2. >“Today a jury has taken 20 minutes to come to a not guilty verdict and clear the name of retired Pc Tim Bradshaw.

   20 minutes lol, how rare is it for deliberation to be so straight forward

3. This is great news! Shame the officer had to go through this when he was doing the country a favour.

   “The court heard that Mr McGarry had more than 40 convictions, including for robbery, theft and dangerous driving”

   Fuck that guy, the least he deserved was to be knocked off his bike. The country really needs to crack down on wankers like this.

4. That’s two cases from the CPS this week that have taken less than 20 minutes for the jury to chuck out. What a waste of time and money.

5. CPS and IOPC once again being shown that the majority of the public supports robust policing and doesn’t like the system bending over for scum bags.

   The terminally online crowd are so out of touch it’s unreal, but unfortunately they are the loudest voices and can be found in great supply here on Reddit, some of the greatest modern proof of how effective social media propaganda is.

6. I deplore the idea that drivers can hit cyclists and not be prosecuted.

   And I don’t believe that police should be judge, jury and administers of punishment all in one.

   But…

   If you commit crimes, then you can reasonably expect the police to come after you. If you commit further crimes by seeking to evade capture, you place yourself and others at risk. Under such circumstances, the police are fully entitled to apply reasonable force to stop you. If you get injured jumping over a fence, being sat on, being chased by a dog or falling off a motor-bike, well that’s a risk you exposed yourself to and your injury is a consequence of your own actions.

   Such cases should not be clogging up our courts and adding pressure to the challenges of policing.

7. > “This case demonstrates that police officers only have seconds to make decisions in order to uphold the law.

   What law would that be? Roadrage at a scrote flipping you the bird?

8. 20 minutes to come to a verdict. Wow I would have at least been tempted to hang around for a free lunch

9. Good to see common sense being used. It should never have got this far though.

10. Further evidence of the Judiciary being completely out of touch with the man in the street. Good on that Jury

11. Awesome, legal precedent set that should embolden other officers to take similar action.

12. Should have reversed over the little fuckers, I’d wager 99% of the UK public would pat the police on the back if they did.

13. Now he’s not guilty can we enjoy the video somewhere? 

14. Two police officers were cleared in my hometown for hitting and killing a man in the middle of the night. They were driving through a housing estate (20/30mph limit) at 60mph with no lights on. It’s a fucking joke.

15. A total waste of time and money he was doing his job

16. > Mr McGarry, who was 17 at the time, suffered a broken tibia and required surgery, and told the court that Bradshaw had not given any warning.
    > The court heard that Mr McGarry had more than 40 convictions, including for robbery, theft and dangerous driving.

    Forty convictions at the age of 17. That’s insane, its not arrests, its convictions.

17. “bike” but not much pedalling in the video, was it an unlicensed electric moped by any chance?

18. What about adam white? who spent two years because he defended his family from two armed robbers on bikes

19. Is this not the case where the police officer probably did commit a crime, but through jury nullification, they found him not guilty?

    No facts were disputed in this case, it’s just a matter of applying the law so seems unlikely the CPS would get that wrong.

    Sounds to me that there’s a problem with the law if 12 people can deliver a unanimous verdict within 20 minutes which goes against what the current law states. I think people have had enough of electric bikes riden by hoodlums to commit crimes.

20. I go to a gym in Bognor daily full of young lads who come on bikes and scooters and driving home is insanity as they cut across every road and ride into oncoming traffic, act like absolute prats

21. Guy shouldn’t have been on any computer while operating a bicycle

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