Manchester cops owned big time

[Mr Hammers]

Profanity-free but slightly abrasive guy, who knows his rights and is not afraid to use them versus a very, very frustrated plod. Fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlwLDS-xKYE
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[colin1]

Unnecessarily arsey, but it does highlight the normal pattern for police is to know the law, play the authority figure, and get someone to incriminate themselves, failing that boss someone around and make vague illegal threats, escalate the situation and over react.

They are genuinely stumped when they realise they might not be able to proceed as normal.
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[covent.gardens]

Just reminds me of the multicultural experiment failure, tbh.

[CaNsA]

I was laughing my arse off.

"Hop it!"

[Lord Percy]

Saw this a few days ago. I think the guy was a complete fucking cock, choosing to be a gobby shite for no reason other than his own 'us and them' mindset regarding the police. They didn't cause the aggro. He did.

The reason they wanted to talk to him was because he was pulling some kind of handbrake turn stunt and they saw him do it. It's mentioned at the start of the clip.

What were the coppers supposed to do? Just let him carry on driving like a that until such a time when there's an injury or an actual law broken?

Nothing wrong with police having a sensible word with someone when required. It is their task to maintain law and order, after all. I mean, just because no laws are broken, it's still good to have a group of dedicated public servants who are willing to step in and keep the peace when there are mouthy dickheads like him around who push the acceptable limits of how to act (or drive in this case) in public.

He was clearly a total fucking arsehole. Police did nothing wrong.

I'm dead against all the actual gang-like things the police sometimes do. For example, many activists, including a well respected 60 year old couple - both of them university lecturers - were arrested in their homes and detained for the duration of the royal wedding (or some other major public event), just because they were known for doing peaceful public performances (acting, singing, etc) regarding their views, so there was a CHANCE they might do 'something' (something peaceful), and were therefore arrested. THAT is when the police are complete cunts. This video here, however, is just an example of an over-inflated police-hating ego who thinks he's a pillar of society for aggressively 'exercising his rights' at a totally unnecessary time.

Don't forget, without the police, society would be vile, animalistic and properly territorial, dog-eag-dog, the very bad side of anarchy.

[Hetzer]

Bullying thug pigs totally owned. Superb demonstration of a lawful citizen putting public servants in their place and reminding them who the boss is.

Now fuck off, you shabby shower of shit, and go catch some criminals.
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[Rogerborg]

[fatpies]

[recman]

I need a translation.

[yen_powell]

He definitely has a criminal accent, surely that's enough to charge him??
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[Walloper]

I'd lift the fucker just for that irritating voice...

He was probably driving like a cunt.

Am ah bean deetaaained.

Abusive Prick!
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[ScaredyCat]

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[Rogerborg]

[Lord Percy]

Fair counter-arguments from all. I just think the 'fuck da po-lice' mentality has extended beyond all necessary level. People choose to hate based on small examples like this, and conveniently for a moment forget the world of good the police are doing in most other circumstances.

Of course society would decay monstrously if there was no police force. Anyone who thinks otherwise is making the mistake of believing that their own pure, utopian, community-strong egalitarian mindset is matched by everyone else. Clearly not true. When my bike was stolen, it was the a street bobby who got it back. Otherwise it would still be in the garage it was halfway through being stashed in. Society turns a blind eye to criminal behaviour as it is. Even if people did start clubbing together to work as a community against crime, it would melt down into mob mentality with widely differing moral stances across the country. I dare say there'd be regular lynch mobs about. Not to mention all sorts of racial/gang/national/territorial/you-name-it violence. Hence we need policing. Sad as it is to admit, society would be pretty barbaric without a somehow-enforced legal system, methinks.

And of course it's quite fine to have a word even if no laws are broken. There's law, and there's order. The latter is sort of subjective, but there are plenty of things I could legally do that would warrant a stern speaking to about the nature of my actions.

Just my opinion. Maybe the police were in the wrong in that situation? At least we all seem to agree that the guy was a bit of a mouther.

[Walloper]

[Rogerborg]

[Hetzer]

[Lord Percy]

MY argument 'for' the police really just a direct reply to this from fatpies:

[Saltire]

Bet me to it OP.

The thing is the police might have it on camera (do UK police cars have a dash camera?). If they do, then he may be fucked. If you commit an offence that they can prove via video they are just going to send you a letter to notify you of any points on your license instead of telling you in person.

Probably why the black officer had a CCTV camera, to prove it was him driving the car if he disputed being the one driving it that day.

[Nick__C]

Watched this and thought the guy was a bit of a nobber but fair play to him

"Am I being detained"
"no"
*leaves*
"MAKING OFF!"


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[andym]

He seemed like a bit of a cock to be honest, OK so I didn't watch the whole thing, but I just don't understand the mentallity sometimes, I thought the police had the power to stop and question people for little reason.

I've been stopped in the past for someone in the car in front throwing a fag end out the window... I've been stitched up by the police... I've called them because of some scrotes ragging the arse off a stolen car at 3am (I had to be up at 7).... I just don't see the point in getting all defensive.

I noticed the video was almost 10 minutes, I imagine if he just let them get on with it he'd have been gone in less than half that

[fatpies]

[Rogerborg]