The officers should be trained to deesulate a situation and take control.
Do you honestly think these people haven’t been trained?!
maybe, just maybe, some of their training involves using “shock and awe” violence to destabilise and subdue someone who has broken appendages on police officer’s faces already and could at some point try and reach for their weapon or mortally injure the officer.
so with all that in mind @Gummybear23 how would you propose doing this “deescalation” when you’re outnumbered? Please walk me through it step by step.
Not get angry and kick someone in the head.
Again, WHO is saying he is angry? If the policeman is punched, and returns a punch because he is fighting for his life, does that second punch automatically get attributed to “anger”? What is a policeman allowed to do when the perpetrator makes it a straight up street fight?!
They lads lashed out and needed to be tasered.
“Lashed out” makes it sound like they got a bit tipsy and mistakenly scrapped. These guys don’t drink. They did what they did sober, premeditated, and I would posit that they wanted to attack police in retaliation for how their relative was treated on the plane.
as for “tasered” how many times must I say it.. a taser is not a magic bullet. It doesn’t stun or render the attacker unconscious. the thing about UK policing is that it’s not like the US where a bullet from a distance can stop a perpetrator. Our police have to get up close and dirty, risk flailing limbs, knives, strangulation, anything. In those situations a Taser helps quicken the subduing process. It is not the whole process!
There are people with mental health issues to attack police officers in a very aggressive way.
Please don’t do this @Gummybear23 . You know absolutely NOTHING of their mental health. Don’t blame it on something abstract just because you can’t conscience or imagine that a person could be badly behaved enough to attack an officer. People do it in cold blood because they are criminal.
As for the last sentence, I despair. No one on this forum wants a perpetrator to be beaten to death. Just as the policewoman didn’t leave the house wanting her nose broken, yeah?