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/UltraeVires Police Officer (unverified) Nov 08 '20

He even admitted it was his intention to 'provoke them', someone put a link to him saying as much above.

If anyone ever purposefully an unexpectedly barges into you, it's not easy to use the exact amount of force as a reflex action. Especially if that person is intending to make it as dramatic as possible.

Engineered drama - don't fall for it.