Have a look at this, it’ll get your blood boiling at the fucking disgrace of a police force we’ve got in the UK.
It’s a video made by art student Simona Bonomo of some buildings in London. She was then apprehended by a gum-chewing PCSO who tried to label her as a terrorist because she didn’t give what he deemed to be a valid reason for filming some buildings. He was determined to disbelieve anything she said and eventually booked her for cycling the wrong way down a road.
Moments later a squad of 7 anti-terrorist police officers appeared and piled on top of her, threw her in a van and locked her up for 5 hours, dispensing a caution and then releasing her.
Talk about creating enemies of the public. Either abuses of power are rife in the police service or this video is an example of the UK dropping further into the realms of a police state. I wont even go into whether Simona was booked because she wasn’t white.
It’s not the only incident of PCSOs and Police officers abusing their “power”. Apparently in this video, the way this amateur photographer’s camera was positioned was deemed “antisocial” by police and he was arrested in a heavy handed manner. All police officers in this second video should be sacked, especially the fucking prick at the end that locked him up for 8 hours.
There are plenty of other incidents. It’s absolutely appalling that the police seek to uphold laws that they themselves fabricate, they club together and abuse their power and then rinse their hands of any dirt after the event.
In all of these videos, no punishment was applied to the police officers or PCSOs involved.
In some cases, they won’t even give their identification number, and if you don’t give your own identity to the police they seek to arrest you on ancilliary offences that they seem to invent on the spot.
This is not good, as I beleive in firm law and order ie birching the shite out of chavs, making enemies of decent people is not the way forward.
Nulabours, NuPolice.
Why all the talking? She should have been sprayed with cs gas and sent on her way.
Hmm, that IP was supposed to be blocked. Ah well, it is now.
Why don’t you post under a single name? Why do you keep pretending to be in Benidorm when you’re not?
Maybe you can answer that when you decide to grow up and post using a single identity – and not through an “anonymous” proxy.
That’s mean. Can’t we have a truce
Yes if you post under a single alias, stop pretending to be people you’re not and stop baiting people on here.
BTW TB, what about an article about Ivan (I am a wanker) Taylor packing it in?
Good riddance to a total tosser!
Didn’t know he had.. got a link?
I might just write an article on that, good riddance to bad rubbish I say, wonder what useless Labour councillor will replace him. I’m on night duty at the moment so I don’t have much time, I might write one tommorow.
now that i would love to see!
Hi Phil, hope the holiday is going well mate.
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Labour-boss-calls-it-a.6097615.jp
Oh, I’m back. I thought the splurge of articles might have given that away
Cooking up a couple more…
The king has returned, long live the king!
It’s sad that the personal discretion of police officers and their Early Learning Centre-trained colleagues (PCSOs) isn’t exercised more often, in view of the need for better judgement when serving the public.
Of course, stopping people with cameras helps them to play the numbers game where Section 44 is concerned – they can’t be seen to be stopping and searching a disproportionate number of people from particular sections of society. In the end however, it just serves to get people’s backs up and entrench the notion that the law “isn’t on our side”.
My personal favourite is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKl2sEN4yNM – part of a very short documentary and not a whole clip of an incident, but the training and duties of PCSOs is laid bare for all to see.
I know that there are some good coppers out there (I’ve even met some PCSOs who haven’t worn out their hat badge through over-polishing), but this sort of thing undoes the positive work that they do. It just undermines the relationship with most people who want to go about their busines without being harassed.
I was stopped by PCSOs in London twice last year, because apparently a 16 year old (at the time) taking photos of transport (in one case I actually had a pass from TfL too!) puts the entire capital in danger of a terrorist attack.
First time I co-operated and told them that I wished to speak to their supervisor (as they wanted to delete my photos, which is illegal and they have no power to do) and when he arrived I had a large discussion eventually being sent on my way without so much as an apology – though a letter to the Met later changed that.
The second time – when I had the pass from TfL – I waved the pass, gave them the number of the person i’d got it from, hopped on the next tram through (it was well timed!) and told them to eff off – no doubt that’s an offence but they deserved it!
Bloody shambolic.
You actually got an apology? Blimey.
I know Phil, I was rather amazed! That said, my ‘persuasion’ skills probably helped… the magazine was played up a bit and I said I wouldn’t mention it if I got one… I didn’t mention it in there… but I did mention it!
When I lived in Zimbabwe it was a big no no to take pictures of public buildings, courts, train stations, airports that sort of thing.
Coming back to the UK was brilliant I really appreciated the freedom we had.
Move forward 12 years and after Labour’s “good” work we have lost so much freedom.
I do hope the Tories will return our freedom’s again, which includes being able to take a picture of a building without being grilled by security staff.
That’s quite a poignant comparison you’ve posed there.
After all, Zimbabwe is a bankrupt dictatorship and the UK is a bankrupt.. authoritarian democracy?
It’s one thing to have anti-terror laws and I don’t have a problem with stop and search, within reason. But the mandate of the Police is to enforce the law, not to chase targets or use their perceived authority as a tool to bully innocent people.
It’s no wonder prison cells are in such demand and no wonder the police always complain about too much paperwork if they are prepared to waste their energy trying to charge and prosecute people that have done nothing other than take a photograph in a public place.
NuLabour is ZANUlabour.
PCSOs are one of the biggest wastes of taxpayers money going. They cost billions a year and serve no useful purpose. The accounts given in this article come as no surprise to me. The police forever abuse their powers because they know they can get away with it. If I abuse my powers as a healthcare professional like any other doctor, nurse etc we can be struck off the register after facing a hearing if our conduct is brought into question. There is nowhere where you can report incompetent and negligent police officers. If you make a complaint to the force, there will be an ‘internal enquiry’ ie a slap on the wrist and no further action. If you report them to the IPCC there will an ‘independent inquiry’ where it is your word against the police and who will a court believe? Magistrates and judges should not believe a police officer’s word over an honest law-abiding citizen. They should weigh up both sides of the story and be impartial.
Have a gander at this mob, assaulting people, vandalising property and generally causing a nuisance: http://current.com/items/92301998_police-and-kurds-clash-during-london-iraq-election.htm – God knows what the Iraqi voters queueing up must have thought about them!