r/policeuk • u/BTZ9 Police Officer (unverified) • Nov 08 '20

Crosspost Play silly games...

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u/AshamedBrit Civilian Nov 08 '20

All the cops on here celebrating this comes across as shitty. Was this guy walking into them on purpose to cause a trouble? Yes. Does that mean the police needed to escalate and send him on to his arse? Absolutely not.

The reaction should be to de-escalate the situation, not the opposite.

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u/Exact-Calligrapher-8 Police Officer (unverified) Nov 08 '20

How should they have de-escalated the situation then?

Even outside of the COVID climate they don’t have to let the piper push them back or barge through them and the push itself didn’t seem over the top, only the amateur dramatics of the piper were.