PC Tasered amputee, 92, in wheelchair, court hears

[Peter]

I agree with that. I was pulled over three times and dealt with cops another few times and every time they were assholes... one time the lady cop threatened to loose her dog on me because I started walking down the wrong street because my friends and I misunderstood the conflicting instructions by the police. Flippin ridiculous.

Compare that to getting pulled over here in New Zealand and when the first cop asked me where I was coming from I said "seeing To Gun Maverick" and a second cop jumped in so excited about whether it was good or not and the three of us chatted about Top Gun for a few minutes, laughing and having a nice conversation. They were polite as hell.

Anyway... just a comparison.

Yep, many US police seem to have this idea that the public must obey them without question and demand absolute obedience.

Uk police treat people very differently and they can't hide behind qualified immunity if things go badly as that doesn't exist here.
If a cop assaults you they get treated just like anyone else whereas in the US cops see assaulting people as standard procedure and can just claim the person was resisting and it's always the job of the person assaulted to prove it was unlawful.

It's bizarre that you have people who defend thye right of cops to act like thugs.

 

[bythoughts]

He used a full can of pepper spray, and a Taser, and a baton, to defend himself from a 92-year-old amputee with a urinary tract infection armed with a butter knife?

A knife which he'd already poked into a worker's stomach without doing any damage. Who the PC didn't talk to before rushing in. Because Monty Python has been discontinued and replaced by, The News.