Royal guard video kicking child in the way

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I wasn't born and raised in the UK and am not into the culture of 'tradition' but I don't understand the majority of reactions to this video blaming the parent and saying of the guards 'it's their job'.

Can anyone more enlightened explain to me why this was necessary? As far as I can see the guard is marching, not saving London from attack. I don't see why a side-step wouldn't work. And if this is a register thing then maybe future control of how close members of the public are able to get in their path

www.indy100.com/viral/queen-royal-guard-trampled-kid-tiktok-video-b1983965

US has a much higher infant mortality than the UK too.

It has double the maternal mortality rate of the UK.

So, so civilised.

Not.

Can't believe that America is being upheld as more civilised than the UK.

Ah America, the place where the colour of your skin will get you killed by the police.

Tourists have ample warning to move out of the way, the last time I went there was about a 5 minute period of the beefeaters clearing the path. They specifically tell families with kids to keep out of the way as the soldiers don't stop

Yes, and they no doubt do it for all those who haven't read the website or whatever, but your point's been largely ignored because it doesn't fit the narrative

As a PP said, you really can't legislate for stupidity or the idea that, whatever happens, it's always someone else's fault

I just showed the clip to my DH who is not a native English speaker. He had no clue what the soldier was saying BTW, could easily have been "freeze" for all he knew.

Wow though at hailing from the USA and calling others uncivilised 😳

The guards don't appear from nowhere, they're big loud men who don't hover silently above the ground.

Big men need to be more careful when marching through crowds who are unaware of their unmarked routes, and be aware that they could seriously hurt someone if they ploughed straight into them, which they did, without reason, and with complete disregard for the wellbeing of the child.

I've seen compilations on YouTube where the Guards simply push adults very roughly, in one case a woman. The TikTok video is now uploaded to YouTube too.

Someone upthread thought there was some comparison between the sentinels at Arlington and the Guards, but there is not. The demeanour of the Guards belongs in a barbaric age.

If you are running a tourist attraction visited by 3 million people every year, and it's almost 2022, maybe your approach should acknowledge that it's crowded, that your ridiculous uniform and all the marching about and staring straight ahead is going to cause people to wonder if you really are a security operative and not a character in a historic re-enactment, and that the Monarch you are guarding is a mere figurehead with no power whatsoever, and none of the trappings of monarchy matter one iota any more.

Maybe you should be honest and clear with potential visitors who do due diligence on your website. Above all, you should decide whether the place you are guarding is a tourist attraction or a terror target, because it is incredibly irresponsible to go on selling tickets to a death trap.

@shouldistop

Can't believe that America is being upheld as more civilised than the UK.

Ah America, the place where the colour of your skin will get you killed by the police.

I know, got to laugh really. The UK is far far from perfect, but fuck me nothing on that place.

Well if the OP saw that lovely clip, the soldier who returned to make that little child’s day would have been marching towards him in a threatening manner and intimidating the child by standing over him in a menacing way… 😉

Ah America when an election doesn't go the way of the far right they try a coup.

So so civilised.

@mathanxiety

The guards don't appear from nowhere, they're big loud men who don't hover silently above the ground.

Big men need to be more careful when marching through crowds who are unaware of their unmarked routes, and be aware that they could seriously hurt someone if they ploughed straight into them, which they did, without reason, and with complete disregard for the wellbeing of the child.

I've seen compilations on YouTube where the Guards simply push adults very roughly, in one case a woman. The TikTok video is now uploaded to YouTube too.

Someone upthread thought there was some comparison between the sentinels at Arlington and the Guards, but there is not. The demeanour of the Guards belongs in a barbaric age.

If you are running a tourist attraction visited by 3 million people every year, and it's almost 2022, maybe your approach should acknowledge that it's crowded, that your ridiculous uniform and all the marching about and staring straight ahead is going to cause people to wonder if you really are a security operative and not a character in a historic re-enactment, and that the Monarch you are guarding is a mere figurehead with no power whatsoever, and none of the trappings of monarchy matter one iota any more.

Maybe you should be honest and clear with potential visitors who do due diligence on your website. Above all, you should decide whether the place you are guarding is a tourist attraction or a terror target, because it is incredibly irresponsible to go on selling tickets to a death trap.

100% Anti-British poster here ^

I'm Irish, not American, @WalkersAreNotTheOnlyCrisps.

And the UK isn't that great a place to hold a march or protest unemployment, or suss laws, etc.

@mathanxiety

The guards don't appear from nowhere, they're big loud men who don't hover silently above the ground.

Big men need to be more careful when marching through crowds who are unaware of their unmarked routes, and be aware that they could seriously hurt someone if they ploughed straight into them, which they did, without reason, and with complete disregard for the wellbeing of the child.

I've seen compilations on YouTube where the Guards simply push adults very roughly, in one case a woman. The TikTok video is now uploaded to YouTube too.

Someone upthread thought there was some comparison between the sentinels at Arlington and the Guards, but there is not. The demeanour of the Guards belongs in a barbaric age.

If you are running a tourist attraction visited by 3 million people every year, and it's almost 2022, maybe your approach should acknowledge that it's crowded, that your ridiculous uniform and all the marching about and staring straight ahead is going to cause people to wonder if you really are a security operative and not a character in a historic re-enactment, and that the Monarch you are guarding is a mere figurehead with no power whatsoever, and none of the trappings of monarchy matter one iota any more.

Maybe you should be honest and clear with potential visitors who do due diligence on your website. Above all, you should decide whether the place you are guarding is a tourist attraction or a terror target, because it is incredibly irresponsible to go on selling tickets to a death trap.

"A death trap"

Been on the post christmas wine, by any chance?

@MollyQueenOfSocks

Maybe we could take a moment to consider what would happen if they did break ranks for anyone who got in their way

Breaking ranks for 10 seconds to walk around a child instead of trampling him isn't going to get the Queen killed or tower bridge blown up.

Where the fuck has common sense gone in this country?

Obviously one isn't to expect breeders to display common sense, perish the thought! Once this lad is back in school he'll talk of nothing else and it will be his chat-up line in years to come!

I've seen compilations on YouTube where the Guards simply push adults very roughly, in one case a woman. The TikTok video is now uploaded to YouTube too.

Yes and on this occasion the woman was on the wrong side of the barrier in a well marked route so poor example. And as said those complications are of the handful of times it's happened out of thousands and thousands of incident free marches and just confirms that some people lack awareness where most people manage fine not to get marched over by big, loud men

I don't have a link to the tik tok but on the news paper reports an army spokesperson confirms it. You can read them they will be quoted in every paper without me going searching for links on your behalf

@liveforsummer you said the family said they’d apologised and asked why would they lie, but I hadn’t seen that which is why I asked for a link as it’s not been confirmed by them.

I’m not saying it’s not true. But from the video the adult man is obviously in the wrong so it’s nice to see both sides if the video doesn’t show it.

f you are running a tourist attraction visited by 3 million people every year, and it's almost 2022, maybe your approach should acknowledge that it's crowded, that your ridiculous uniform and all the marching about and staring straight ahead is going to cause people to wonder if you really are a security operative and not a character in a historic re-enactment, and that the Monarch you are guarding is a mere figurehead with no power whatsoever, and none of the trappings of monarchy matter one iota any more.

But surely the crows visiting the attraction know that and that's precisely why they visit?

@mathanxiety you're being ridiculous and reaching just to try and prove a point, perhaps time to log off and get some fresh air?

@mathanxiety

I'm Irish, not American, *@WalkersAreNotTheOnlyCrisps*.

And the UK isn't that great a place to hold a march or protest unemployment, or suss laws, etc.

You said you live in America.

The irony of talking about civilised countries when you live in one of the least civilised places in the world seems to have bypassed you.

How did he know the child wasn't a terrorist decoy?

The breathtaking nativity of this "sarcastic" comment is so typically mumsnet. It must be wonderful to live in such a simple innocent world.

And swear I'm not being sarcastic. Sadly from one who has been in theatre too many times . :(

Obviously one isn't to expect breeders to display common sense, perish the thought!

Breeders?

100% Anti-British poster here

The idea that if you're not with us you;re against us is another example of the authoritarian mindset.

A person can criticise blatantly and completely unnecessarily brutal treatment of a child without wishing for the destruction of the UK and everything it stands for, you know.

Maybe it should be "please Mr tourist can you get out of my way".

I’d prefer ‘move tourist get out the way, get out the way tourist, get out the way’ since this whole thing is Ludacris.

Should I start a thread about the time I was at the Tower of London and saw a raven snatch a sandwich from a child's hand, at the same time nipping his cheek so the child had blood running down his face?

As the kids might say… time to go touch some grass.

Visitors who come from civilised countries have no warning whatsoever from the website that the Guards will be marching through crowds of people on unmarked routes, or that they are prepared and willing to march straight into people inadvertently in their way, bellowing as they approach.

Other than the Beefeaters clearing the path beforehand.

I'll ask you again, have you been drinking? It's surely the only explanation.