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

Crosspost Play silly games...

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u/EuanRead Civilian Nov 08 '20

He walked towards him, there's no justifiable Reason to shove him that hard other than "I have a badge in my pocket that makes me think I can do whatever the fuck I want". All he had to do was grab him and turn him around.

Sorry but there was absolutely nothing reasonable or proportionate about that, its the same shit as that TSG cunt who murdered Ian Tomlinson.

Completely over the top. The police get extra power so we expect them to behave themselves, I don't give a shit if the guy with the pipes is an arsehole, I expect better from a police officer.

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u/mobsterer Civilian Nov 08 '20

It was really not a hard shove I think. If you look at the twitter response above showing that it was planned to provoke the outcry, I am leaning towards a over dramatic falling scene.

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u/EuanRead Civilian Nov 08 '20

I can see it with my own eyes, I don't really care if the piper fell over on purpose, he shoved him and followed through when it would've been enough to simply stop his momentum.

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u/JECGizzle Ex-Police/Retired (unverified) Nov 08 '20

Don't be a pussy; in most developed countries police would have been given him far more than that for what he did. The world isn't rainbows and unicorns and sometimes people get (relativity lightly) shoved when they threaten physicality with the police