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Mob attacks officers over litter
BBC News ^ | 2008-07-18 | BBC

Posted on 07/18/2008 6:41:43 AM PDT by Todd_Gray

Two police officers are on sick leave after being attacked by a mob in south London after they asked a 15-year-old girl to pick up her litter.

One officer was dragged to the ground and kicked while the other was bitten by a girl who jumped on his back.

Up to 30 people took part in the attack, which happened in North End, Croydon, on Wednesday afternoon.

Trouble flared when the 15-year-old threw her food wrapper back on to the ground and became aggressive.

Hospital treatment

A girl who was arrested at the scene on suspicion of assault has been released on bail.

Two men, aged 34 and 38 and both from South Norwood, south London, have been arrested on suspicion of assault and violent disorder.

Police said the girl initially picked up the fast food wrapper when asked by the patrolling officers, but immediately dropped it again sparking the confrontation.

The officers, aged 34 and 29, suffered bruising and knee injuries and are currently on sick leave.

The officer who received the bite wound required hospital treatment.

Officers have been examining CCTV footage from the area.

Insp Simon Ellingham said: "We have heard from several retailers in the area who were horrified at the level of violence used by the crowd against the officers."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: barbarians; bigbrother; endofsociety; leo; ruledbritannia; securitycameras; thereisnoenglandnow; whoaretheperps
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1 posted on 07/18/2008 6:44:06 AM PDT by Todd_Gray
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To: Todd_Gray

And they won’t let cops carry anything to protect themselves with. DUMB.DUMB. DUMB.


2 posted on 07/18/2008 6:48:08 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (If the opposite of Pro is Con, what is the opposite of Progress? -- Tom Glennon)
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To: Todd_Gray
Great Britain is done. Stick a fork in her!
3 posted on 07/18/2008 6:48:42 AM PDT by wmileo (I miss Ronald Wilson Reagan. POTUS #40)
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To: Todd_Gray

No doubt these acts had nothing to do with members of the cult of Islam.


4 posted on 07/18/2008 6:49:30 AM PDT by DemonDeac
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Yeah. That’s the first thing to occur to me. Ethnicity is left out of the story, but I wouldn’t be surprised either.


5 posted on 07/18/2008 6:53:40 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Todd_Gray
I guess the perps were race neutral.
6 posted on 07/18/2008 6:59:06 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: Turret Gunner A20
And they won’t let cops carry anything

A cop with a visibly holstered handgun twirling a nightstick will deter at least a large majority from bad behavior. Nobody wants to get whacked, and fewer want to risk being shot.

Dumb and dumber for the times we live in today.

7 posted on 07/18/2008 7:00:11 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: Todd_Gray

It is refreshing to see that the youth in GB have such respect for authority.


8 posted on 07/18/2008 7:00:20 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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To: DemonDeac

Say goodbye to your Culture England!!!

you stupid Limey leftists.....


9 posted on 07/18/2008 7:01:50 AM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: Todd_Gray
I'm thinking William Golding had the wrong island in mind when he wrote Lord Of The Flies.
10 posted on 07/18/2008 7:04:14 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: boomop1
I guess the perps were race neutral.

No, it's just a case of the MSM covering up for those rampaging Amish folks. It happens all the time.

11 posted on 07/18/2008 7:05:20 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Types_with_Fist

I dunno, there’s a large population of just plain punks in England, and there’s little respect for authority. Billy clubs might help...


12 posted on 07/18/2008 7:07:27 AM PDT by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: wmileo

IT’s sad to see England going down the sewer.The garbage
is heading for all Western civilization.


13 posted on 07/18/2008 7:09:14 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: Types_with_Fist
Yeah. That’s the first thing to occur to me. Ethnicity is left out of the story, but I wouldn’t be surprised either.

These may have been "Asians" or Caribbeans, but Britain has a lot of just plain homegrown, white-as-Wonder-bread troublemaking yobs, too.

14 posted on 07/18/2008 7:19:06 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Here they come boys! As thick as grass, and as black as thunder!)
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To: Todd_Gray

Is there nobody in Great Britain who gets upset about this kind of behavior?


15 posted on 07/18/2008 7:21:13 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: Types_with_Fist

Odds are the perps are white. Police officers are too scared to start a confrontation with ethnic minorities nowadays or they’ll be called racist.


16 posted on 07/18/2008 7:25:00 AM PDT by djsunzi
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To: Todd_Gray

Now who is viciously angry all the time and willing to attack people with whom they disagree?


17 posted on 07/18/2008 7:35:37 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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Now who is viciously angry all the time and willing to attack people with whom they disagree?

Teenagers?

18 posted on 07/18/2008 7:37:21 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: Todd_Gray; DemonDeac
From Wikipedia: [2001 Census] White is the majority ethnicity with over 72%, compared to 90% in England as a whole. Black or Black British was the second-largest ethnicity, over 13%; 11.3% is South Asian. This may be somewhat misleading as earlier in the article it says that "White British" are 59.8% in 2005 estimate with an additional 6.7% being Irish or other White.

From this it appears an increasing 'foreign' population without the traditional respect for the "Bobby" police. Great Britain is reaping the whirlwind it sowed during the days of Empire. Yet they need these people to support their Health and Welfare systems in the post WW2 Socialism Delusional Utopia.

19 posted on 07/18/2008 7:42:22 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: jagusafr
I dunno, there’s a large population of just plain punks in England, and there’s little respect for authority. Billy clubs might help...

They call them "lager louts" if I remember correctly. The crowd could have been muslim, but it wouldn't surpris me if this was just your standard drunken white British trash.

The only time I ever found myself in a violent crowd was on a street in Cambridge- two groups of drunken white Brits got into a large brawl in the middle of the street and I just happened to be walking by. The lack of police response was shocking. The fight just kept going and going- I can't imagine a brawl like that continuing unabated in an American college town like Ann Arbor or Madison. And if that had happened in a place like NYC, the place would have been swarming with cops in minutes.

20 posted on 07/18/2008 7:45:49 AM PDT by Citizen Blade
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