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London Riots: Police 'Prepare To Use Plastic Bullets' if Violence Continues
The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8/9/11

Posted on 08/09/2011 12:47:40 PM PDT by marshmallow

London police said on Tuesday they will consider using baton rounds as calls mounted for them to use stronger measures in riots that have been sweeping the capital for the last three nights.

"That's a tactic that will be used by the Metropolitan police if deemed necessary," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh told reporters.

Officers said they hoped they were wrong as they said they were "preparing for mass disorder again" tonight.

Senior Scotland Yard officers, led by Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin, met a number of departments last night to discuss the use of various tactics.

Asked about other tactics, such as plastic bullets or baton rounds, Mr Kavanagh said: "Through the night the Commissioner did absolutely consider that as one of the tactics available to use, a tactic used if deemed necessary.

"These are very fast-moving mobs - by the time we get baton guns there, they will have moved on."

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To: johniegrad

If they don’t use live ammo, they best go in with over whelming numbers instead of 5,6 or 10 cops.


21 posted on 08/09/2011 1:04:26 PM PDT by RC2
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To: marshmallow

“London police said on Tuesday they will consider using baton rounds”

and they’ll might consider raising their voice and making other scary threats if extreme violence continues.


22 posted on 08/09/2011 1:04:33 PM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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To: colorado tanker

Thanks for the chuckle.


23 posted on 08/09/2011 1:06:41 PM PDT by gatorhead
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To: Cheetahcat

The bring in the water trucks and hoses to flush them down the sewers.


24 posted on 08/09/2011 1:06:50 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: brent13a
"So this a$$hat would send his officers out to a gunfight with plastic bullets. He would prefer to have his officers use less-lethal force against criminals using lethal force against them."

Except for our 2nd Amendment and an citizens armed for self defense, how much better off are we.

The Border Patrol Officer killed by one of the "Fast and Furios" weapons supplied to Mexican drug dealers - by the Obama Regime - had just fire a SANDBAG at the killer(s). That was (and I hear is still) the rules of engagement until live round 1st come from the other side.

25 posted on 08/09/2011 1:08:06 PM PDT by drpix
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To: brent13a

and an citizens = and citizens


26 posted on 08/09/2011 1:10:50 PM PDT by drpix
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To: marshmallow

What the h#@! are we supposed to use, man? Harsh language? - Private Frost


27 posted on 08/09/2011 1:11:11 PM PDT by ScreamingGreenAlienGorilla (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecc. 10:2)
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To: 353FMG

Is #6 shot good for zombie hordes? I have a few hundred rounds saved just for this purpose. For use in my 12ga Tri-star tactical pump of course.


28 posted on 08/09/2011 1:12:42 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: marshmallow
"Prepare To Use Plastic Bullets' if Violence Continues"

Prepare?! "Commence to begin to start to get ready to prepare" would be more likely be a reflection of Brit thinking. These are not the people who stood up to Hitler and Mussolini, or to the Japanese war machine.

29 posted on 08/09/2011 1:16:13 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: littleharbour
The English never had any hesitation in using blunt force in Northern Ireland, but it seems a different standard applies when the unrest is in London instead of its occupied territories.

Worth repeating thank you....

30 posted on 08/09/2011 1:19:47 PM PDT by Moleman (<--Not an Orangman)
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To: littleharbour
The English never had any hesitation in using blunt force in Northern Ireland, but it seems a different standard applies when the unrest is in London instead of its occupied territories.

Worth repeating thank you....

31 posted on 08/09/2011 1:20:06 PM PDT by Moleman (<--Not an Orangman)
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To: marshmallow

Here’s a comment from my friend in the UK after I advised they should switch to real bullets:
“Jack,

We are OK. Unbelievable what is going on. Whilst it is rioting, it nonetheless in truth is a race issue. The Rioters are 90% black/Asian but nobody will mention this and because of this the Police do not use any meaningful force against the rioters. We need the New York police force, they would not stand back and be pelted with bricks by black and Asian teenage rioters.”

He might be wrong about the NYPD but interesting anyway.


32 posted on 08/09/2011 1:24:45 PM PDT by JeanLM
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To: marshmallow
That guy is also mentally ill.

What he is saying is simply that the mob is free to hurt certain people and burn them out and he doesn't care ~

Equality under the law is not a Brit ideal sad to say.

33 posted on 08/09/2011 1:26:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: 353FMG

“The bring in the water trucks and hoses to flush them down the sewers.”

Yes!!


34 posted on 08/09/2011 1:26:51 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: ZX12R
Here's what it is ~ the Brits don't respect the fuzzy wuzzies enough to send their very best.

Their idea is that their attention spans are short and they will soon tire of rioting and looting.

When it comes white folks like the Irish the Brits are scared witless and fight even the women and children as if they are the most dangerous of aggressors!

35 posted on 08/09/2011 1:30:18 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: marshmallow
London Riots: Police 'Prepare To Use Plastic Bullets' if Violence Continues

As in

"Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!"

36 posted on 08/09/2011 1:35:19 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: cripplecreek

Jesus went there to mine lead. Where’d it all go?


37 posted on 08/09/2011 1:38:48 PM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: littleharbour
The English never had any hesitation in using blunt force in Northern Ireland, but it seems a different standard applies when the unrest is in London instead of its occupied territories.

I'm starting to wonder if the reason for hesitation might be that there are children of the upper class mixed in with the radical anarchists rioting?

38 posted on 08/09/2011 1:44:43 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: marshmallow

Might as well ask them nicely to go home quietly.


39 posted on 08/09/2011 1:52:14 PM PDT by bgill
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To: marshmallow

How did GB produce Churchill? It’s amazing how fast and how far they have fallen.

Buggery will do that to a country spiritually.


40 posted on 08/09/2011 1:56:07 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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