Do you think it's cos the police are scared of the people who can actually fight? Four bobbies to a granny but not one brave enough to face up to somebody their own size?
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I’m certain that’s part of it. Cops are bullies, bullies are ultimately cowards.
As someone who is friends with a handful of cops, plenty of them are ok. The sort of people youd want to help in an emergency. They do have thugs and bullies, not suited to a fair bit of police work, but the police need the numbers, and so assign people like that to units who specialise in crowd control, riot control etc. so it frees up the more level-headed ones to be e.g. 999 responders, desk sergeants, interviewers etc.
"Nobody really likes them, but they do come in handy sometimes" one of my friends said.
Edit: however, this does probably result in the Thug Units basically agreeing with the more moronic protestors, and having a bone to pick with the 'clever-clever leftie' ones.
No it’s because they don’t want to cuff their friends
It can be two things
And my ace.
one tier for people dumb enough to associate themselves with a terrorist organisation and get arrested out of principle, when they could just rename themselves and still have a nice day out supporting palestine
another tier for racist football hooligans
don't tell me the idiots wrapped in england flags have outsmarted the old ladies?
So the takeaway is that violent protest is 100x more legal than peaceful protest right?
Sounds like violently protesting is safer
Only one is a threat to British imperial interests.
Rumor has it they're giving DNA tests and reducing rations in alignment with % Irish ancestry
You have to give them points for consistency
Jesus Christ
Monty Python has been warning us about grannies for a long time
Our governments have turned Nazi
It kinda seems like the Eu and the UK are joining the USA in implementing extremist far right ideology. If they don’t stand up to evil tech billionaires they will fall with us.
"carry out violent protests against immigrants"
"go queue at an indian stall after a hard day's protest"