to think that dragging a disabled man out of his wheelchair is appalling behaviour?

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Protester Jody McIntyre - who has cerebral palsy - being pulled from his wheelchair onto the road by police at the recent protest.

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Disgusting behaviour.

Am I fucking hallucinating or did some UTTER UTTER arguing that police SAVED lives at Hillsborough??
FCM, you need to have some sort of knowledge understanding or CLUE about things before you start spouting utter crap like that.
Hillsborough is still an incredibly sensitive subject and your remarks are crass stupid and deeply deeply wrong.

ccpccp If the horses weren't charging at the time then it wasn't for his safety. While they were waiting to charge there was time to move him safely.

As others have pointed out, the policeman was unlikely to know what disability he had, it could have been brittle bones for all he knew.

I don't quite get why people are complaining about the interviewer from the BBC. He asked questions about what happened, and if Jody had done anything to provoke the attack. What's wrong with that? How else was Jody supposed to make people watching the interview aware that he wasn't throwing things or acting provocatively?

If he refused to get out of the way, he broke the law.

And he is capable of using a power chair btw.

And now we're back to, if he broke the law arrest him.

Maybe the officer was moving him for his own safety?

Is that not a good policy, ThisIsANiceCage?

If he broke the law, arrest him. Which would not involve tipping him out of his wheelchair onto the road.

If he didn't break the law, WTF?

As I said on this thread yesterday.

That footage makes me want to cry.

i read a few different sides/opinions to this since it happened and I don't know what to believe. My first reaction was OMG! but I don't know what really happened enough to judge on just the video tape.

Yangymac - when you read his barely veiled glee at having been in a confrontation with police on the earlier blog, it paints him in a different light.

There is also video of him verbally abusing a policeman.

No matter how many powerful afterthefact blogs he writes trying to portray himself in a better light, the fact remains that without the disability he'd just be another rioter.

Verbal abuse is rioting now is it? I always thought rioting involved smashing things up and throwing petrol bombs, but apparently now it includes using naughty words...

er, how is he a RIOTER? a protestor, yes. They aren't synonymous.
Don't play games with the English Language ....

Running battles with police is rioting, however you want to cut it.

He was in the thick of the trouble and giving abuse to the best of his ability.

The fact that the police were able to contain the trouble so well this time is a credit to their tactics. Not one bit of credit should go to the likes of Jody and his pen.

ccpc, you really aren't convincing anyone. There is no law that allows police officers to drag a man from his wheelchair unless he presents a threat to them or he is in danger himself. Neither of these apply. You can call the protests a riot all you like, still doesn't give the police carte blanche to use physical force against anyone they fancy.

He was deliberately blocking a horse charge Edam. I'd say that was a danger to himself and to the police.

He also got to the front of a police line standoff, and stood toe-to-toe with a policeman, hurling abuse, before the crowded rushed forward and the fighting engulfed him. The police dragged him through the line for his own safety.

Hes far from innocent. Dont defend him just because hes in a chair.

If that was the case ccpccp then why couldn't the policeman wheel him away rather than dragging him so violently along the road?He was being a nasty bully.

"stood toe to toe"

they could have just pushed him where ever they wanted, no need to drag him out of his wheelchair.