> The two constables involved have been served with misconduct notices and letters advising them they are under criminal investigation for manslaughter.
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Well I don’t want to make assumptions, but it seems a bit hard to believe that was a justifiable use of force even if he was threatening people with a knife.
The guy had a knife and had threatened staff with it. They’d already used incapacitant spray and a baton so evidently not much was working. The bloke’s 93 years old, any use of force is going to be risky and any stressful event is going to put him at risk of just dying later on. I’m a fan of taser, it should be used more, though it’s still worth an investigation.
Yet again in these sorts of incidents though, the police are not the service who should be dealing with people in these sorts of situations. This bloke was a dementia patient in a care home. The care home should have some capability of restraining aggressive patients. The care home definitely shouldn’t have let him get hold of a knife. If other services keep messing up and falling back onto the police to do things the police aren’t experts in, the police will keep getting bad outcomes.
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ITT: Armchair experts who have never confronted anyone with a knife saying how it should best be dealt with
This is how we should all hope to go out. A century old, batshit crazy, waving a knife with your balls dangling out of your dressing gown. The full force of the police arrayed against you, using every weapon in their arsenal to try and slow your destructive rampage.
RIP sir, you’re a bloody legend.
I could not care less how old you are
Threaten people with a knife and you get less than 0 sympathy from me
ACAB feels like it’s ringing truer and truer in this county.
I’d say it was the taser. There, I’ve saved a million pound investigation.
WHAT the fuck? A 93 year old man with dementia in a wheelchair???
This beggars belief.
fucking british police, won’t tackle travellers but happy to taser, pepper spray and beat a 93 year old 1 legged pensioner with dementia…man they are such a bunch of utter CUNTS
As someone who worked as a HCA for dementia patients for 5 years this is abhorrent.
I’ve been attacked/spat at/objects thrown at me/fecal matter pelted at me etc by patients.
That’s where empathy comes in, these people do not know what they are doing. It’s heartbreaking.
All this needed was a bit of compassion and understanding, and de-escalation via calm talking or other non aggressive means.
A 93 year old, who is wheelchair bound, with one leg. Pepper sprayed and tasered… I genuinely can’t comprehend it. Disgusting act.
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> The two constables involved have been served with misconduct notices and letters advising them they are under criminal investigation for manslaughter.
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Well I don’t want to make assumptions, but it seems a bit hard to believe that was a justifiable use of force even if he was threatening people with a knife.
The guy had a knife and had threatened staff with it. They’d already used incapacitant spray and a baton so evidently not much was working. The bloke’s 93 years old, any use of force is going to be risky and any stressful event is going to put him at risk of just dying later on. I’m a fan of taser, it should be used more, though it’s still worth an investigation.
Yet again in these sorts of incidents though, the police are not the service who should be dealing with people in these sorts of situations. This bloke was a dementia patient in a care home. The care home should have some capability of restraining aggressive patients. The care home definitely shouldn’t have let him get hold of a knife. If other services keep messing up and falling back onto the police to do things the police aren’t experts in, the police will keep getting bad outcomes.
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ITT: Armchair experts who have never confronted anyone with a knife saying how it should best be dealt with
This is how we should all hope to go out. A century old, batshit crazy, waving a knife with your balls dangling out of your dressing gown. The full force of the police arrayed against you, using every weapon in their arsenal to try and slow your destructive rampage.
RIP sir, you’re a bloody legend.
I could not care less how old you are
Threaten people with a knife and you get less than 0 sympathy from me
ACAB feels like it’s ringing truer and truer in this county.
I’d say it was the taser. There, I’ve saved a million pound investigation.
WHAT the fuck? A 93 year old man with dementia in a wheelchair???
This beggars belief.
fucking british police, won’t tackle travellers but happy to taser, pepper spray and beat a 93 year old 1 legged pensioner with dementia…man they are such a bunch of utter CUNTS
As someone who worked as a HCA for dementia patients for 5 years this is abhorrent.
I’ve been attacked/spat at/objects thrown at me/fecal matter pelted at me etc by patients.
That’s where empathy comes in, these people do not know what they are doing. It’s heartbreaking.
All this needed was a bit of compassion and understanding, and de-escalation via calm talking or other non aggressive means.
A 93 year old, who is wheelchair bound, with one leg. Pepper sprayed and tasered… I genuinely can’t comprehend it. Disgusting act.