actually, I was referring to some of the replies rather than the cops
" This fella was lucky to only get a boot to his head., In many a country he would not have gotten off so lightly" sounds like a wistful hankering for fascism to me
But if we're on the subject I spent three years at Hendon developing training for the police probationers. We taught them how to arrest, how to put on restraints, we even simulated violent mobs which were fun days. Not often you get to scream abuse in a cops face and push them around pretending to be a football hooligan, unless you are one I suppose. Can't recall where we taught them to stomp on prostrate civilians heads in retribution, perhaps I missed that lesson, but I remember quite clearly teaching them about their common law duty of care. There was even a quiz at the end I wrote myself.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 29 Jul 2024, 13:17,
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Sorry
but I couldn't help but be reminded of the guy hung on a wall in Life of Brian.
"You lucky bastard. Ohh! What wouldn't I give to get a boot in the head! I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being booted in the head after being tazed. You got off lightly! Now, take my case. They hung me up here five years ago. Every night, they take me down for twenty minutes, then they hang me up again, which I regard as very fair, in view of what I done, and, if nothing else, it's taught me to respect the Romans, and it's taught me... that you'll never get anywhere in this life, unless you're prepared to do a fair day's work for a fair day's pay! Wonderful people, the Romans"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 29 Jul 2024, 14:52,
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