Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me'
blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 day ago
WTF, they still cuffed him and brought him in after it had to have been obvious it was a jump rope and a weighted vest?
Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me'
blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 day ago
WTF, they still cuffed him and brought him in after it had to have been obvious it was a jump rope and a weighted vest?
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It’s an incident that needed to be processed unfortunately.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
But processed with the guy in cuffs?!
This is the sort of stuff that shows our bobbies are becoming ever more like Americans’ pigs.
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
Coppers have been knobheads for a long time mate.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Guy was running around in a vest that looked like a bomb vest, close to a Jewish community while in other countries they are being simultaneously threatened. You think they were going to end it there, by not taking him into the station and giving him a chance to make a statement for in case there’s some kind of pushback or worse, he gets targeted too?
He said they treated him well. I’ve been in handcuffs before (employer cancelled my visa in-country) and it’s not a big deal.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
I didn’t say don’t take him back to be processed.
I just don’t see the need for him to be cuffed once the police know it’s a skipping rope and he’s no threat.
As for “no big deal”, it’s also about optics and respect. A lot of law enforcement techniques are about imposing lack of personhood on someone and by limiting those impositions it shows that the individual isn’t a threat and is being treated as something other than a criminal.