They got scared by a spoon didn’t they? Blue nonces.
Concerning case all around, I imagine someone will get it for the initial screw up. Sounds like this was the correct choice.
If their correct about him threatening and assaulting someone with an equivalent of a rounders bat, then I guess the arrest itself is perfectly justifiable.
Still all the evidence needs to be carefully reviewed and their are certainly a number of questions that need resolving.
> Bedfordshire Police said officers attended reports of a disturbance in Potton at about 05:00 BST on Friday and initially went to the wrong address.
> The force said the officers were approached by a woman holding a “wooden implement” at the scene.
This is like a scene from a bygone sitcom: keystone cops bungling the address, confronted by a women with her hair in rollers, brandishing a rolling pin.
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Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. I never supported the idea of defunding the Police, but these days I’m not so sure.
He hit an officer with a wooden pole…
I think the media have more to answer for tbh.
Well it took them long enough, but I’m pretty sure they arrested more than one man in the whole decade.
> Cops approach wrong house at 5am, leave
> man is annoyed, yells at them
> police officers try to confiscate his rolling pin
> “officer became injured”
> give the most cryptic possible description to make it sound like he was threatening to beat them up
> “Before further units arrived, an altercation ensued where one of our officers tried to take the wooden implement from the resident, during which [the officer] sustained a cut to her face.
Note the use of the passive voice? Not “One of our officers started an altercatiib” but “an altercation ensued”.
You can be damned sure if it _wasn’t_ the police who started it they’d be yelling it from the rooftops.
I’m not one for defending cops blindly, but in this case I think they’ve got it right.
Fucked up the address, fair enough that’s pretty poor, but this isn’t the States where they go in like its Gettysburg and sort it all in the gunsmoke haze. This mistake would be fixable.
The woman drew blood on the officer ffs, and it’s not difficult to spot a uniformed cop.
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They got scared by a spoon didn’t they? Blue nonces.
Concerning case all around, I imagine someone will get it for the initial screw up. Sounds like this was the correct choice.
If their correct about him threatening and assaulting someone with an equivalent of a rounders bat, then I guess the arrest itself is perfectly justifiable.
Still all the evidence needs to be carefully reviewed and their are certainly a number of questions that need resolving.
> Bedfordshire Police said officers attended reports of a disturbance in Potton at about 05:00 BST on Friday and initially went to the wrong address.
> The force said the officers were approached by a woman holding a “wooden implement” at the scene.
This is like a scene from a bygone sitcom: keystone cops bungling the address, confronted by a women with her hair in rollers, brandishing a rolling pin.
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Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. I never supported the idea of defunding the Police, but these days I’m not so sure.
He hit an officer with a wooden pole…
I think the media have more to answer for tbh.
Well it took them long enough, but I’m pretty sure they arrested more than one man in the whole decade.
> Cops approach wrong house at 5am, leave
> man is annoyed, yells at them
> police officers try to confiscate his rolling pin
> “officer became injured”
> give the most cryptic possible description to make it sound like he was threatening to beat them up
> “Before further units arrived, an altercation ensued where one of our officers tried to take the wooden implement from the resident, during which [the officer] sustained a cut to her face.
Note the use of the passive voice? Not “One of our officers started an altercatiib” but “an altercation ensued”.
You can be damned sure if it _wasn’t_ the police who started it they’d be yelling it from the rooftops.
I’m not one for defending cops blindly, but in this case I think they’ve got it right.
Fucked up the address, fair enough that’s pretty poor, but this isn’t the States where they go in like its Gettysburg and sort it all in the gunsmoke haze. This mistake would be fixable.
The woman drew blood on the officer ffs, and it’s not difficult to spot a uniformed cop.
What was he doing when he was arrested?