am i alone.....

[Ward-Minter]

am I alone in thinking this is good justice for the PC who has got off batonning a pro-hunt supporter here

If PC Grant ever reads this (you never know with google searches etc!) all the best and keep up the good work.

If Miss Lovelace ever reads this then it deserves you right. Now you know how the fox feels you [edited by AB]

[jedimistress]

No. They always beating up or killing the hunt protesters, so why not let them have a cut nose.

[Supernick]

Anyone who decides to fight with the police is pretty much asking for trouble. She wasn't batonned repeatedly, she copped 1 on the knuckles and probably one in the face, although even that is up for debate. If that's what it takes to stop you grabbing the riot shields then so be it. Common sense justice.

[Goodsoulette]

They have to investigate it otherwise policemen could just go round battering everyone. My parents hunt and I hate it, and I would laugh my arse off if a policeman hit them for protesting for their right to do it. Karma is'nt it? It annoys me that so many policeman have to keep order at a protest mainly attended by a bunch of snobs who think they are better than everyone else.

[gary baldy]

When i saw the headline i was thinking "Oh there's a surprise- a copper getting off doing something wrong" but when i found out it was some posh bird who likes chasing foxes in the name of 'sport' i almost started writing a cheque out to the Police Benevolant Fund (almost!).
Its a shame he didnt knock her stupid, interbred, posh head off (i would have done given half the chance) and claimed it was just 'pest control'.

[Drusilla1S]

I thought being marked in blood was a right of passage among fox hunters, or is it only when the blood is from some other poor creature.

[brachiopod]

Bloody-hell W-M, I'm with you again!

I can't believe the PC was actually arrested !

I mean if it was putting down a Poll Tax demo or a Miners Strike it would have been commendations all round and a message of thanks from the Prime Minister on how well they handled the situation. I mean, if you got hurt by a truncheon it was all "Well, you shouldn't have been there..."

Because it's a load of Ha-ha-Gymkhanas, it's all "Daddy knows your Chief Superintendant, you rotter !" and something gets done amid accusations of heavy handedness.

[johnlambert]

arrested for doing his duty and upholding the law?

mad, absolutley mad

[Oneeyedvic]

No you are not alone - I find myself in agreement with you.

No problems with peaceful protests, but if the crowd turn violent, I fully expect the police to lash out at them.

[sp1814]

I think I may now retire from AB forever, as I too find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with Ward-Minter's post.

Life doesn't seem to have any purpose any more.

[asciwhite]

I'm sure these dreadful people enjoy the screaming of the animals as they are ripped apart.

I hope they come back as foxes!!!

[Pippa68]

You are not alone W-M ~ isn't Karma a beautiful thing?

[sandbach99]

To the previous posters. If this wonan had been protesting about the war in Iraq or the rising council tax bills would it still have been alright for P C Grant to have hit her drawing blood or would he be a policeman out of control who deserved punishment?
If it is considered lawful, by the previous posters, for any policeman to batton any protester you will then congratulate the next policeman who hits an 80 year old pensioner who objects to the rising cost of living.

There is not one rule for a hunt supporter and another rule for the rest of society.

By the way I do not hunt.

[Pippa68]

Yes, it would be right if the protest wasn't a peaceful one. This was described as a 'rowdy protest' therefore the policeman was well within his rights as an officer of the law. She made a grab for his shield, he did his job.

Age &/or gender has nothing to do with it.

[jedimistress]

http://www.arkangelweb.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=866&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0&POSTNUKESID=ca9926bf068c9fba258955c480911b18

The hunt goes on.

[Elfin]

Aw terribly sensible sandbach. However, nobody likes these good-for-nothing, fat @rsed savages anyway and so a firm truncheon blow across their hooky roman noses gives us a nice warm feeling inside.

[snook]

I didn't see the news about this incident but it sounds like she deserved a smack. She got one apparently, so that's that then. At least she wasn't chased for about five miles then torn apart by dogs while gasping her last breaths, with the hunters (police?) looking on and laughing.

[joko]

hear hear, well said, minty, well said - i am not going to bump you off in my story any more - you are promoted to Lord Ward-Mincer....Still in a dress though...;oD

[littleoldme]

It just shows what a bunch of mindless thugs the pro-hunt lobby are. I've no doubt those of them who are old enough spent the 80s laughing their buck-toothed heads off while the coalmines, shipyards and car plants were being closed down all over the country, leaving thousands out of work. Now their bloodthirsty fun is in danger, they start to make a fuss. Just a shame PC Grant didn't whack a few more of them.

[stevie21]

How do we get to the stage where we criticise hunters for being blood thirsty but revel in one of the hunters being beaten and bloodied?
Double standards?

This situation is no different to any other protest and it's stupid to say that anyone deserves a beating, especially just because they're posh.

[Pippa68]

Actually I don't really care what the protest was about. It turned ugly, she was interfering with a policeman doing his job so she got hurt. Simple.

On the other hand she is also involved in a blood sport, so shouldn't complain ;o)