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.

they, being people in wheelchairs. It was a follow on from what someone else said.

so you think all people in wheelchairs are the same??

I am not entirely sure from the video that he was tipped out, we don't know all the facts. I can only believe that he was removed for his own safety and to prevent offences. I think the police acted appropriately.

A few seconds can make a difference in any volatile crown situation. You have to think on your feet and act quickly and still justify those action. Reasonable force was used it would seem.

*crowd

They're the same in the sense that they are in wheelchairs, yes. Perhaps not in the sense as to gender, race, marital status, abilities, disbility.

well
stupid statement

What's a stupid statement? Saying that people in wheelchairs are the same as people in wheelchairs as they're all in WHEELCHAIRS? Are you for real?

yep
I think your use of the word they, and saying that "they want favoritism is a stupid statement.

Well you'll just have to fork out for some therapy then because I shan't retract it.

Wow. Offensive

Those of you saying it was for his own safety, do you know if the police knew what his disability was? If they didn't, can you still justify dragging him across the floor rather than moving the wheelchair? What if it was something like brittle bones?

'If he wasn't in a wheelchair no one would care how he was treated by the police.'

You're wrong LifeForRent I care, I care a lot how the officers who are there to protect us treat someone demonstrating legally, whether they have to live with a disability or not.

If the officer felt threatened by a bloke violently wheeling around in his wheelchair, then I wonder at the lack of control he had over the situation, and the authority they seem to have lost over the years.

It's situations like this that damage the rest of lovely, caring officers who do a cracking job, and it's they who should be most angry at this particular officer for portraying them in such a negative light.

Yes demonstrating legally you said it. PEACEFUL protesting, and if he was doing this, no of this would've happened.

wow.

Lifeforrent, I am in awe.

I thought another Mner had the record for the most amount of biggoted ignorant and totally bullshit bollocks postings in a day. I didn't think it possible but you have exceeded it.

congratulations.

I do so hope you never trip down the stairs and end up in a wheelchair.

cos tha'd be Karma for you wouldn't it.

Oh, was he not peacefully protesting? I missed that bit of the reporting.

Which bit wasn't peaceful LifeForRent?

I am truly shocked some people are justifying a poor man being dragged along the road.Disabled or not disabled.

Exactly ANgel

But him being in a chair did give the POlice more options: NT person, you would have to forcibly move them if needed; in a chair, grab handles and shift away.

They can't have had no options.

I think there are always going to be people who think they're some kind of intellectual when they go against the grain/think outside the box/talk a load of old shite.

There's not a lot you can do but argue the toss with them, I don't think it'll change their point of view at this moment in time, but it might in the future when they will perhaps become more reflexive.

The most important thing in challenging their view is to show that it is against a consensus agreed on by the majority, so other people reading this thread will see it's socially unacceptable to tip a person from their wheelchair, for whatever reason.

Wow, how fucking pious is that

There are some shitty attitudes about.

Yes I totally agree about awful attitudes on this thread.Thank God there's only a small ammount though.

Much has been said about the agressivity of some students during the protests, but this video gives me some strong grounds to believe that their claim that the police was the side to incite violence, it is true.

You've been itching for someone to say something disablist havent you yangymac? Shame no-one has.

He has every right to protest. He doesnt have the right to riot or expect the police to just leave him to be trampled under a line of horses.

Hes not the messiah, hes a very naughty boy!