Blind man tasered by Police ...

Now there is mistaken identity and mistaken identity....how ridiculous is thatthat poor man...good job it wasn't my dad ....an apology is nowhere near good enough....it beggars belief

 

INSTANT DISMAL With total loss of PENSION

And They want us to Back them in this Here Vote!!!

Call them PLEBS!!! I Can Think of Worse Words Then That For Them

 

I am waiting to hear their explaination excuses,
Jenny

 

They will say mistakes happen. They'll say that every day they risk their lives in the line of duty so sometimes they don't have time to think because they believe there is an immediate threat, or words to that effect.

And to think, there are some people who believe that our coppers should be routinely armed just as they are in many other countries. Good job they're not, otherwise this innocent chap would be dead now. At least a taser is rarely fatal.

 

There is a good word about the police - arrogant.

Cheers, Tony.

 

I was one of those people ...after recent events ...to say that the police should be armed....on second thoughts

 

Yeah well, if swathes of cute toddlers had been cut down by a nutter with a Samurai sword in Lancashire we'd have been asking questions as well.

It is hard to see how they could have been so stupid, but then they have to deal with a lot of very odd people. Also, they guy didn't stop when asked (they said) so it was obviously all his fault.

It's damned if you do, damned if you don't where the police are concerned. For those that slag them off, walk a mile in their size 12s. Also, who you gonna call......

 

Yes i see exactley where you are coming from....but a blind man with awalking stick....some things are going very wrong....

 

That's more or less what one of the coppers that stormed my house in the early hours of the morning said, after nearly waking our son, and after walking into our bedroom uninvited catching my wife just chucking a dressing gown on, all while he and his colleague repeatedly ignored my requests to know what was going on. After treating us like scum for half an hour before some 'new' information came in on their radios, which then started to unravel their 'good reason' for suspicion (I found out that the force knew hours before arriving that we couldn't be involved nor would we even have any reason to know anything about their case), I got a bit angry and demanded to know why they'd treat us like scum when by their own admission they didn't even have half a recent to suspect us of anything, and in any case they already had information that proved that there was no point disturbing us, the initial answers was threats of arrest for everything from being abusive, until I pointed out that I was sat down in my living room, and it was he that was stood in front of me shouting, to obstructing the police, until I pointed out that I'd answered every question they'd asked and again, I was sat down and he was standing up, the eventual answer was along the lines of 'we have to deal with all sorts of people...'.

That makes it all alright then. The people we pay to keep us safe think it is ok if they 'mostly' get it right, because after all, they have to deal with all sorts of things.

Coppers are going to make mistakes just as everyone else will. The trouble is, in any other career, if we were to make a mistake is serious as tasering a blind man, or pushing over and killing a man with his head down and his hands in his pockets, or pinning down and repeatedly shooting an unarmed man in the head, the very least we'd expect is to lose our jobs. Yet if a copper makes a massive monumental blunder, it gets swept under the carpet with claims that there were lessons learned, and they mostly get it right considering they have to deal with all sorts.

 

How do these people get into the police force in the first place? Do they just select the most violent people they can?

 

A policeman's lot
Is not a happy one
happy one