Posted on 04/20/2020 11:18:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A policeman has been suspended after he was filmed threatening to “make something up” so he could arrest a man for breaching coronavirus lockdown laws.
Lancashire Police was forced to apologize for the unnamed officer’s behavior after footage of the incident in Accrington was shared online.
Tonight they have confirmed he has been suspended from duty with immediate effect and the force has referred itself to the police watchdog over the clip.
The video captured a young man being shouted at by a policeman in Accrington on Friday afternoon after he was pulled over for being out of his house. He claimed he was collecting a quadbike, before the officer launched into a furious rant.
In the video, the young man is heard saying: “You’re harassing me, what for? I’ve done nothing wrong…”
While failing to adhere to social distancing and maintain a two-meter distance, the officer shouts at him: “Sit in your car and shut up.”
The police officer then adds: “I’ll lock you up… I’ll make something up… who are they going to believe, me or you?” …
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sargon of Akkad has a good video up about the totalitarian behavior of some UK police officers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSfxg9LVmY0
A Constitution and laws are put in place to keep bureaucrats honest. When they pass arbitrary rulings not based on legal precedents those rulings are basically unenforceable.
I want him arrested, tried, and imprisoned in the general population so his inevitable shanking serves as a warning to every other cop.
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Sargon of Akkad has a good video up about the totalitarian behavior of some UK police officers
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I watch SKY NEWS on PLUTO TV frequently...
I have seen news clips showing British cops...Cops even used drones to see if people were too close to each other...
just suspended.
big deal.
The recent case of Field Marshal Lord Bramall proved that “making something up” is now policy at the very top of British policing.
Dummy. If you're going to be a third world cop, just ask the guy for money and you'll leave him alone. For today, anyway. Didn't they teach you?
Sargon / Carl Benjamin is one of the best commentators around. Top tier.
Yeah I check out his stuff 3-4 times a week.
Maybe there are rare exceptions: Just as there is no limit to the depths of depravity to which humans can sink, there is also no limit to the heights of goodness and saintliness to which humans can soar. Many soar to great heights every day. Perhaps there are people who are incorruptible.
But most are.
And the incorruptible are those least likely to be attracted to positions of power. President Trump might be one of the rare exceptions. Certainly he has taught his children not to be corrupted by the power of enormous wealth! And he himself shows no evidence of a tendency to abuse power or to be seduced by corruption.
This the greatest fallacy, of many fallacies, in the theories of Karl Marx. He himself acknowledged that an iron-fisted dictatorship would be necessary to establish and implement his policies. Such a dictatorship would inevitably give enormous power to those controlling it, and they would inevitably be corrupted by it. Such an outcome has occurred everywhere his theories have been tried.
Government is run by people--corruptible people. It must be kept as small as possible in order to maintain the control of the governed over it, and the governed must remain eternally vigilant.
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