Did racism play a part? Would the situation have been handled differently by the police if the whole incident involved white people?

The lawyer for those charged saying on TV nothing happened prior to the fighting on the circulated videos.

He is also saying the family member who is a GMP officer is terrified to go to work because he has been threatened with being killed by other officers, this incendiary stuff from a lawyer is absurd

Whatever the answer to that, mobs on streets threatening violence is never acceptable under any circumstance.

Now we have posters with Gaza, BLM and who knows what. JSO will have fewer to contribute as they are losing numbers as more get banged up which is good.

* typo in title, should be scenes

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Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

...except the stabbing of a soldier in Kent...

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

Unless you have been in this situation, its easy for keyboard warriors / social media to give an opinion as there would be more going on then just whats on the video. It does look like the officer had the red mist though, regardless of the situation its not a good look to give a bloke restrained on the floor a good shoeing even though you want to, especially with people filming it.

Sometimes I set out for Ludlow
Sometimes I end up in Chepstow

Ask the policewomen who had previously been assaulted. They may just agree with the red mist police officer. Must be hard to keep your cool when confronted by that type of total hypocrisy.

People are fallible and if the red mist descended then it's very unfortunate for him. It's situational pressure of the kind very few ever experience.

Who would be a police officer these days?

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Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

i predict another Mark Duggan moment. When something happens to trigger chaos again. It could be anywhere in Western Europe. Its all a giant tinder-box of civil unrest, ethnic & social division, and angry discontents.

The World gone mad ? the small village of Dundrum, Co Tipperary. Now facing the reality of Asylum seekers outnumbering villagers by 2 to 1. And it seems to be now happening everywhere.

The Arab Spring was triggered by a single fruit street-trader having their cart upended by the cops. 250 million people affected.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford