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."
And they won’t let cops carry anything to protect themselves with. DUMB.DUMB. DUMB.
No doubt these acts had nothing to do with members of the cult of Islam.
Yeah. That’s the first thing to occur to me. Ethnicity is left out of the story, but I wouldn’t be surprised either.
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.
It is refreshing to see that the youth in GB have such respect for authority.
Say goodbye to your Culture England!!!
you stupid Limey leftists.....
No, it's just a case of the MSM covering up for those rampaging Amish folks. It happens all the time.
I dunno, there’s a large population of just plain punks in England, and there’s little respect for authority. Billy clubs might help...
IT’s sad to see England going down the sewer.The garbage
is heading for all Western civilization.
These may have been "Asians" or Caribbeans, but Britain has a lot of just plain homegrown, white-as-Wonder-bread troublemaking yobs, too.
Is there nobody in Great Britain who gets upset about this kind of behavior?
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.
Now who is viciously angry all the time and willing to attack people with whom they disagree?
Teenagers?
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.
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.
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