Perhaps women aren't cut out to be on the front line?

Perhaps a key part of your antenatal research could be looking into what year your child will be born and how ridiculous never mind dangerous attitudes like, welp men beat people up what’re ya gonna do? are to men and women.

Well if I miscarry yet again, you needn't worry.

Yeah and he deserves it. There’s a reason the police do extensive training. They aren’t supposed to have knee jerk reactions that involve actions that could kill or paralyse people. Most normal people would not dream of kicking someone in the head like that but the fact that he’s been trained not to and still does it shows what a violent dangerous man he is.

A few months to buck up your ideas then and bring your thinking into the 21st century. Especially if your baby is a girl.

It was a kneejerk reaction to his colleague being attacked. He'll be sacked and his name and family probably smeared for the rest of his life.

Err no they should de-escalate the situation and arrest anyone who assaults anyone. There is no justification for kicking someone in the head who is no longer any threat to you. That’s not what police officers or the vast majority of men do. It’s pretty damm disturbing behaviour.
I can’t comment on the violent assault against the officers because I don’t believe anyone has been charged with it. There is also no footage that shows anyone beating the police as is alleged, despite this taking place in a crowded place and there being multiple videos. It’s also possible to have your nose broken from someone eg elbowing you in the face while resisting. It doesn’t mean that the guy on the floor punched the woman in the face and lots of people on social media are speculating and showing pictures of an entirely different woman taken last year.

It depends where you hit people and how. Not brute strength, knowledge.

Is there no middle ground between doing nothing and stamping on someone's head?

Not really up to you what I do, is it? And I'm currently pregnant with my first baby after years of trying and failed fertility treatments. Thanks a fucking lot.

And I'm one of them. Thanks, sister.🙄

The victim assaulted the officers. I guess next time they should just walk away and let them do what they're going to do. I hear this whole thing started after an officer asked someone to remove a head covering to search them. They didn't cooperate and punched the officer to the floor.

The police shouldn't bother anymore. Do away with the police as they can't do much of anything given how easy riots can start now. There's no point.

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If it's an operational requirement that a role needs someone who us 6ft tall then that's fine - you can make that a requirement. Some women are 6ft tall and will meet that requirement. If a shorter woman isn't given the role it's because she's too short, not because she's a woman. But you'd better not then employ someone built like sylvester stallone (5'10") or bruce lee (5'7") or daniel craig (5'10") whose on-screen portrayals show someone more than adequately able to handle themselves.
Unless they are going to stop a bullet using their willy then the willy isn't needed.

It's true that the average man is stronger and faster than the average woman. But women in the top quartile of performance in strength and speed among women are stronger and faster than the average man. Saying that a job is open to women doesn't mean any woman can do it - they still have to prove themselves capable and if necessary the criteria can be things that are rarer and more difficult to achieve for women compared to men. But a woman who can meet the criteria is just as qualified as a man who can meet the criteria.

@VolvoFan That's what men do.

Boys will be boys.
Men will be men.

Fucking hell I hope you don’t raise children. Society really needs purged of these attitudes.

@User135644 You can't react like that, but men, at least biologically/traditionally, have a protector instinct when it comes to women, at least with friends/colleagues and family.

Given the fact that most women and girls have experienced physical or sexual assault, and the majority of those cases are at the hands of someone close to them it would appear your claim is absolute bullshit in the majority of cases.

Shocking that you seem to think that a member of a highly skilled profession should go round behaving like a common thug or a secondary school pupil who gets revenge on someone for beating up his mate.“That’s what men do” is it? His “duty to protect his colleague”? You mean his peer and equal who just so happens to have a vagina and probably didn’t ask for him to commit GBH in her honour? What if his male colleague was assaulted? Is it also fine to go and stamp on someone’s head then or is it only female colleagues that these “men” so instinctively protect? If you can’t control your temper, do not join the police force, end of. And it doesn’t make you look big and hard when you go for someone who is literally incapacitated. Funny that he wasn’t brave enough to protect anyone when the guy was standing up.

There was another thread about this a bit ago - maybe check that one out @andsisters

By all means the security was a success surely since he came away with a tiny graze from an attempted assassination.
The larger fault lies with intelligence gathering before and on the day.

Where do you get your ideas from?

Professionals don't react like that, the victim's lawyer has said he has a cyst on the brain. You can permanently disable or kill someone by kicking them in the head

The victim was not a threat and was lying defenceless in the ground. He was attacked maliciously in a fit if temper. He's a public servant not a law unto himself and is being paid to do a job.

That isn't what men do at all. The majority of men don't run around stamping on people's heads at work.

And if you were trapped in same burning building and that big burly fireman couldn't get through the debris but a smaller female firefighter could. Would you change your mind then? Any team should be using each others strengths to get the end result.

He was reacting to his female colleague getting her face smashed in. It was a violent kick to the head, yes, but it got the message across that attacking his colleague was not ever going to be tolerated again. That's what men do. If he'd held back and not done what he did, he will have felt like he failed in his duty to protect his colleague. But the force won't see it that way. The writing is on the wall for him, so I'd just quit right now if I were him.

Why would fewer police be good?

Fewer police in general would be good and make most of them women please 🙏

Personally, I would feel a lot safer living in London if there were more female met police officers, not less!