exiled-blue
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The police genuinely show more restraint tackling terrorists with knives than they do dealing with football fans. Sickening
Like the one in Streatham who got shot.
The police genuinely show more restraint tackling terrorists with knives than they do dealing with football fans. Sickening
No worries. Unfortunately every walk of life has it's idiots and the Police are no exception.Good I hope he's kicked out and prosecuted, if any member of the public attacked another like that it would be GBH, sorry if you felt I was getting on your case, I wasn't, I just don't like seeing people behave that way when in a supposed position of "protect life".
That was pure "oh football supporter = deserves it", its a disgraceful attitude that I've witnessed far too often, here and abroad, the best policing of football fans I've witnessed is in Germany, and over several decades, for the most part they always try to calm things down, but if it doesn't they will eventually go in hard, but generally they control it well.
Which is the main problem I have with people calling for him to be lynched, the lack of evidence.I did say very few things. If he was about to stab someone, then yes could probably justify it as saving life. However he clearly isn't about to stab someone so that justification has gone. As other poster said, aim for arm, hand wrist, or tell him to drop knife and get on floor if has one.
Obviously somethings happened beforehand, but as an officer you still have to act professional even in the face of provocation, and that on that evidence didn't look very professional.
Like the one in Streatham who got shot.
No worries. Unfortunately every walk of life has it's idiots and the Police are no exception.
That's not the case in general if you think that someone is in imminent danger of being stabbed and life is at risk then you can use reasonable force which can be a lethal blow to the head or being shot.If the lad had a knife hitting his arm, wrist or hand would be justified.
A smack to the (knife) hand is far more likely to prevent somebody stabbing somebody else than a blow to the head. You can't guarantee a blow to the head will incapacitate somebody and you can't guarantee it won't kill them. You can guarantee you'll incapacitate their hand with a good sharp blow to it and it's also non-lethal.That's not the case in general if you think that someone is in imminent danger of being stabbed and life is at risk then you can use reasonable force which can be a lethal blow to the head or being shot.
You simply do what you can, neither are right or wrong.A smack to the (knife) hand is far more likely to prevent somebody stabbing somebody else than a blow to the head. You can't guarantee a blow to the head will incapacitate somebody and you can't guarantee it won't kill them. You can guarantee you'll incapacitate their hand with a good sharp blow to it and it's also non-lethal.