Police ‘brutality’

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thankfully they’ve been sacked - bastards

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-10-06/two-police-officers-who-used-a-taser-and-baton-on-92-year-old-amputee-sacked

I don't often cry but this really upset me. I've worked in elderly care and I loved those people. Such interesting lives, such experiences.

My 86 year old mum has been really scared by this news story.

Thankfully, before she went into, "A flat with a lounge and Lynn and bacon sandwich hour" whenever she's had dealings with the police or the ambulance they've always been upstanding and grand with her.

And since really. She sliced her ankle open with her own walking stick by accident last year and got excellent care from emergency services.

Mind you, that's perhaps the often much maligned Lancashire or small village mentality for you.

Same with my dad, whilst he was still alive.

Maybe it does come down to community or if not a sense of belonging, then at least a knowledge that everybody knows somebody and there's some sense of responsibilty.

I remember my dad being taken into hospital and one of the ambulance crew saying, "Howya's Neil. I know your daughter. She's Whatsit right? I went to (same junior school) What's she doing now?"

My dad was unimpressed at the time, seeing as he was concentrating on having a heart attack but maybe that fosters accountability.

We're not all random atoms floating around the universe.

Just seen this on the evening news. Absolutely disgusting! They should be charged with assault at the very least and given a custodial sentence. Police officers who abuse the elderly would be very popular on the inside.

A pair of vile, disgusting and cruel fuckers. What they did to that poor old man beggars belief. They should be imprisoned for assault. 😡

I can't understand why the staff called the police in the first place. Surly they had staff there who could have taken the knife of him?

Thats what I thought. I'm wondering if there is more to it in the sense that he has stabbed staff before (in the context of dementia) and it was on his care plan to call the police.

Madness - someone has just past the buck onto the police if anything goes wrong - "from now on, just call the police"

Instead of taking each incident sperateley and dealing with it themselves. Surly a placing a towel over his lower arm would have worked

Only reference I've seen as to why police were called was that he was throwing food at staff and refused to let go of a butter knife.

It does sound like an over reaction to call them in first place but I wonder if there was a histroy of violence towards the minimum wage care staff and this was their breaking point or in care plan to deal with it- you can still be a beloved family man and become violent with demenatia and staff do have a right to be safe in workplace.

It's very unclear - but even so you do not expect police to threaten within 9 second of entering room to pepper spray and in 90 seconds to taser an individual especialy one clearly that old and confused - you expect them to de-escalate.

He clearly wasn't going to de-escalate for anyone.
The notion that the police can walk in with 'magic words' is just ridiculous.

The staff should have been able to deal with it regardless of what salary they are on.

I'm sure if it was your DD or 60 year old mum assulted at work again by a man with a history of viloence you'd have the same stance - they should suck it up and get on with the job .

I do not know why the police were called but I've not read anything in press that actually cristized that reponse - and nether you or I know what procedeed the call becuase there is no video of that - just the police behaving hugely inappropriately and subsquenct reponse to that that got them sacked.

I agree - the police were very wrong in what they did

What the police should have done is said on the phone call - "we are not coming, he is under your care and as long as he is just sat there and not running around stabbing people, your staff can deal with it"