retrocop - // Pot/ Black Mr Hughes. I give my opinions from past experience. Something you have little of. //
Pot Black is a television programme retrocop, I think you mean 'pot/kettle'. When you talk of your past experience as a police officer, than I don't have 'little experience' of that, I have none at all, obviously, but that does not prevent me from having an opinion on the behaviour of police officers such as the one involved in the incident we are discussing.
// We are no longer in the realm of Dixon of Dock Green or Z Cars. When it comes to fighting crime these days the gloves are off. George Dixon never had demented jihadis wearing suicide vests running around his manner stabbing and slashing innocents. He didn't deal with two or three Drug gang stabbings on his patch every day. //
I don't need you to tell me how much society has changed, and the differing stresses and strains modern policing is faced with, I do live in the same world as you, it is only you who seems to assume you have a monopoly on observing the world around you.
// The day you respect the thankless task that others undertake for you and your family's protection is the day I might find some respect for you. //I utterly respect the work that police officers do to protect and serve society, and I have absolutely no need of your respect for me, so please don't concern yourself with underlining the fact that you don't have it, on a daily basis.
// God forbid some demented male entered a carriage and molested/assaulted your wife or made her uncomfortable by threats of violence. What would you do ? More importantly what if a off duty officer stepped in to protect her using what ever means available.? //
The usual 'what if it was your wife … ' argument cuts absolutely no ice with me whatsoever, that is a hypothetical, and we are discussing an actual incident reported in the news.
But for the record, I would never expect an police officer to use wanton gratuitous violence to combat a non-existent physical threat, and that is entirely the point of my initial post on this thread, and my view remains unchanged.
The officer acted like a thug, he assaulted a member of the public and he should be prosecuted.
// Perhaps I don't want to hear your answer to that. I recall the past. :-( //
Then feel free not to read it - ooops, you already have!!