Can we trust the police?

[sbrt]

Anyone else see that brave officer doing a U.F.C. Ground and pound, on a female shoplifter?

[TheHeathens]

Anyone else see that brave officer doing a U.F.C. Ground and pound, on a female shoplifter?

No, but good on him / her. Had my fair experience of female shoplifters in Debenhams Sheffield (at Uni), one of whom threatened me with a syringe.

[sbrt]

Our hero forgot to check for CCTV.

[shaunaneto]

It's in the Torygraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...aces-sack.html

To be dismissed and guilty of assault.

[Dynamo Dan]

No, but good on him / her. Had my fair experience of female shoplifters in Debenhams Sheffield (at Uni), one of whom threatened me with a syringe.

Was it full of right wing bile?

[sbrt]

Thankfully they r not all cnuts. It was his fellow officers who were concerned with the level of violence.

There u go heathens. I am not a cop hater, after all.

[noel]

From this 'story' I support the policeman. Has the Mirror also reported it?

I suspect it would be something like: Crazed policeman caught on TV punching vulnerable woman.

Amusingly, the Mirror has branded itself the "intelligent tabloid", with the strapline "All the latest news, sport and celebrity gossip"!! You couldn't make this up.

[sbrt]

Tabloid sounds so red top.
Compact is the way forward

[TheHeathens]

Was it full of right wing bile?

Yawn. As a 'journo' I'd have expected a more considered response from you but you just delved deep into your box of stock replies, sponsored by the Guardian.

I hope that the same situation never happens to you Dan because inviting them in for a cup of tea and trying to work out why they're like that doesn't work. Actually, I hope it does happen to you to see how you react. How do you think you would?

I hadn't seen the story but based on the Telegraph account, it wasn't too dissimilar. If someone bit me and said they had Aids, I'd kick the living sh*t out of him/her.

edit: Having seen the CCTV, it doesn't look like she bit him and wasn't being aggressive so, in fairness, I think he over reacted.

[Dynamo Dan]

Yawn. As a 'journo' I'd have expected a more considered response from you but you just delved deep into your box of stock replies, sponsored by the Guardian.

I hope that the same situation never happens to you Dan because inviting them in for a cup of tea and trying to work out why they're like that doesn't work. Actually, I hope it does happen to you to see how you react. How do you think you would?

I hadn't seen the story but based on the Telegraph account, it wasn't too dissimilar. If someone bit me and said they had Aids, I'd kick the living sh*t out of him/her.

edit: Having seen the CCTV, it doesn't look like she bit him and wasn't being aggressive so, in fairness, I think he over reacted.

Ha ha!! If my skin was that thin I'd have been scared of a syringe wielding smackhead too....

I've been in plenty of situations like that over the years before I worked as a journo and whilst working as one. I wouldn't wish them on anyone - even if someone hurt my feelings on the internet.

I've even been attacked by a chair wielding housing benefit claimant whilst working on the benefits counter in Manchester Town Hall.

Needless to say I din't invite them round to my Chorlton Kibbutz for a cup of tea and a bowl of muesli ....

I don't read the Guardian anymore either - it's trash.

It's a shame you didn't watch the video before you tried to defend that copper.