The refusal to pay came right from the start, in Scotland first before it even came in in England, literally no one I know ever paid anything except when the courts took it straight out of their dole at 50p week.
The court system also got totally clogged with people making long complicated arguments.
Hopefully. We can’t have this kind of thing going on.
Yes and riot charges are wide open to abuse.
Police conduct was pretty disgraceful around this time in general. Faking and lying about injuries. Attacking a sit-down protest on College Green. Rounding up spiceheads and trying to coerce them into confessions.
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Ah yes the one random much older transit parked well away from the polices actual fleet of Mercedes Sprinters…
Yes they are, just like the Mark Duggan rioters were.
We should have the death penalty for violent rioters that assault people. Turning senselessly violent on your neighbours because you’re mad and you think you can get away with it is one of the most abhorrent things in society.
Not at all .stick the pricks away 10 years minimum
No. The protesters enjoy fighting the police in the streets, and the police enjoy fighting them back.
“Kill the Bill” is only ever invoked if anybody remembers.
Yes of course they are. They did the same thing with the students protests in 2010. Offences that would normally get a caution or community service and probation they are throwing people in prison. That girl who got sent down the other week, yes she assaulted a copper but, police get assaulted everyday when arresting shoplifters and real criminals etc.. and these people barely get a slap on the wrist.
Some of these protesters its their only ever offence and the likelihood of them doing it again is slim whereas habitual criminals with 40 – 50 arrests have never been locked up.
They were involved in a literal riot, caused huge amounts of damage to property and put people’s lives in very real danger. My opinion is that the sentences are fair and proportionate to the severity of the crime. That isn’t to say that I think that people plunging knives into others aren’t routinely getting incredibly lenient sentences handed to them etc
Absolutely disgusting comments.
No surprise though.
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Yes, rioters usually are, and setting police cars on far is not “protesting”
Yes they are, there’s habitual dangerous people getting less time for much more serious crimes on people.
Probably. Seen people.who rape kids get shorter sentences.
Edit. Fine people who “engage in penitrative sexual activity with a child” get shorter sentence.
Are any of the police going to be charged over the reports of them assaulting journalists and using excessive force?
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/12/kill-the-bill-surge-in-bristol-riot-charges-prompts-alarm-over-civil-liberties
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-07-01/inquiry-finds-police-made-multiple-failings-during-bristol-riots
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/27/boris-johnson-bristol-kill-the-bill-protest-violence-is-disgraceful
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/28/police-bristol-protests-locals-violent-mobs-havoc
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/30/police-accused-of-using-shields-as-weapons-at-bristol-kill-the-bill-protest
The refusal to pay came right from the start, in Scotland first before it even came in in England, literally no one I know ever paid anything except when the courts took it straight out of their dole at 50p week.
The court system also got totally clogged with people making long complicated arguments.
Hopefully. We can’t have this kind of thing going on.
Yes and riot charges are wide open to abuse.
Police conduct was pretty disgraceful around this time in general. Faking and lying about injuries. Attacking a sit-down protest on College Green. Rounding up spiceheads and trying to coerce them into confessions.
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Ah yes the one random much older transit parked well away from the polices actual fleet of Mercedes Sprinters…
Yes they are, just like the Mark Duggan rioters were.
We should have the death penalty for violent rioters that assault people. Turning senselessly violent on your neighbours because you’re mad and you think you can get away with it is one of the most abhorrent things in society.
Not at all .stick the pricks away 10 years minimum
No. The protesters enjoy fighting the police in the streets, and the police enjoy fighting them back.
“Kill the Bill” is only ever invoked if anybody remembers.
Yes of course they are. They did the same thing with the students protests in 2010. Offences that would normally get a caution or community service and probation they are throwing people in prison. That girl who got sent down the other week, yes she assaulted a copper but, police get assaulted everyday when arresting shoplifters and real criminals etc.. and these people barely get a slap on the wrist.
Some of these protesters its their only ever offence and the likelihood of them doing it again is slim whereas habitual criminals with 40 – 50 arrests have never been locked up.
They were involved in a literal riot, caused huge amounts of damage to property and put people’s lives in very real danger. My opinion is that the sentences are fair and proportionate to the severity of the crime. That isn’t to say that I think that people plunging knives into others aren’t routinely getting incredibly lenient sentences handed to them etc
Absolutely disgusting comments.
No surprise though.