How can the Police be 'HAPPY' with this officers conduct?????

[tiredemma]

watch the video, the police officer punches the woman FIVE times!

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I'm struggling to find any sympathy for her tbh. She was caught vandalising some poor sod's car and she resisted arrest.

Ditto Callisto.

She was thrown out of the bar, too, for aggressive behaviour.

It will suit the BBC to put the worst possible slant on the policemans behaviour while making the woman out to be the victim too.

TBH IMO the PC lost his temper with her and was perhaps OTT. However she wasn't being compiant and was risking injury to officers. I still can't believe she needed to be punched 5 times though.

I'm sorry but this makes me cross - i have so little sympathhy for the woman.

Its people like her, who think they can do anything they want, behave how they like and there is nothing anyone -police or otherwise- can do about it. She and people like her behave irresponsibily, take no responsibilty for their actions and then be outraged when they dont get away with doing whatever they want. And NOW she is running after media coverage after sympathy?!!

If she does have epilepsy then she shouldnt have got herself so drunk.
AND OMG....how is it race related??!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree 100%, Callisto!

The BBC's bias is so blatant you'd have to be a moron not to see it.

And we're paying for it if we want to watch television!

I'm getting sick of this thug culture and putting up with peoples' violent and aggressive behaviour on a daily basis.

I don't know how most cops do their job at all.

I'd get so sick of all those losers actively trying to assault and kill me on a daily basis I'd go ghetto in a month.

i cnat imagine the courts woudl have let them off unles it was a lto of aggravation imo

Totally agree with Orchide!

shes clearly no angel. she was behaving in a terrible manner, undoubtedly. but the police were definately OTT - she cant have been so much trouble that it took 5 officers and 5 good strong punches to subdue her... she was hardly a tank, was she?? and the report said she was having an epileptic fit, rather than resisting arrest. dont know whether tyo beleive that, but sounds plausible to me.

i am personally aware of many an incident of police brutality, really shocking stuff, so dont find this surprising tbh. horrible and nasty, but not surprising

and i think you all are pretty naive to have so much faith in the police in this situation. personally.

Her father Leroy Walcott said: "If anybody in any other situation, another male had been hitting a woman or a female, there's no way that would be acceptable."

that has made be lol, actually, that her father is calling for chivalry - when she has been thrown out of a nightclub for being aggressive, damaged a car and resisted arrest, violently....

the race thing... no, its not neccessarily b/c she is mixed race that there are 5 men jumping on one young woman, but sadly, and i dont think white people are at all aware of this by and large, the fact is, that most of the incidents i personally know about have been against people of colour.
i think white officers generally overestimate how much force will be needed to control black people. and thats me being charitable to the officers motives.

she's a thug and tbh, a good slap was well overdue.

i have seen examples of actual police brutality and that is unacceptable of course, but this woman got what she deserved.

And.

Playing the race card? from me too!

if you have a fit, you generally dont remember it afterwards.

is entirely possible he misinterpreted her thrashing as further violence, given that she'd been such a PITA up till then...

Well, (and I know Pann will call me an apologist again - I won't have to look it up this time though) in the words of Liar, Liar's Jim Carey ...

"STOP BREAKING THE DAMN LAW!"

she behaved appallingly. but so did he. 2 wrongs do not make a right.

Bullshit she was having a fit.

She was thrown out of a club for being aggressive, not for having a fit.

Then she went on to carry out more out of control behaviour.

I am SO tired of aggressive drunken thugs getting away with assault and even murder and blaming it on anything other than themselves and their own lack of self-control.

My sis and hubbie are police officers and have to put up with this kind of crap all the time. IMO, the majority of police officers do a damn good job and deal with scum like that on a day to day basis with no thanks, just people waiting to jump down their throats all of the time.

God, it makes me so cross and don't even get me started on her playing the race card.....WTF?????

Nappiesgalore,
Its true when you have a fit you gen. dont remember the events that occured during, however her behaviour afterwards would have indicated that she had fitted. You dont just have a such a big seizure and be able to behave normally afterwards.

IF she has epilepsy why was she so drunk????

i'm sure the police have better restraining methods - and becuase she is a vandalising thug moron, doesn't make it any better for the police to act like that. it discredits the force and `forges mistrust between the police and the general public.

it was handled badly IMO, it shouldn't matter what she did or how she did it. the role of the police should be seperate and not dependant on the action of the alleged criminal. the actions of the police CANNOT be proportional to the crime.

that bloke who was talking on the tape about the race aspect, was imo, practically guilty of inciting raceial violence... he overstated the scene in very emotive terms and it cannot possibly do any good to be quite so divisive about the incident. will only cause resentment and side-taking, imo.

I think the race thing is unneccassary. And she was out of order in her behaviour in the first instance.

But don't tell me that he needed to punch her to get her under control. There were other officers there who stood back. Surely between them they could have restrained her?

And FWIW, I don't buy the epilepsy thing either.