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| Thread ID: 77792 | 2007-03-22 11:49:00 | NZ cops equal the brutality of their USA counterparts | Tum Tum (12017) | PC World Chat |
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| 535111 | 2007-03-22 11:49:00 | Just saw this on 3 News... Innocent person gets beaten by a bunch of thugs. Tries to escape, gets knocked over by a car. Cops arrive, beat him up. Four cops have him helpless on the ground. Cops tazer him. Cops drag him off to police station and joke about the affair. Thugs run away and get off scott free. Episode is filmed by a witnesse's phone camera. |
Tum Tum (12017) | ||
| 535112 | 2007-03-22 12:12:00 | Here it is: TV3 News Clip (tv3.co.nz) The police were just doing their job and getting them off the street and away from public for interviewing imo. For the guy to be tazered he must of resisted arrest, thats HIS fault not the police. Now tell me anyone here if you were beaten up by thugs, run away and then hit by a car finally to resist police arrest? Should be glad the thugs are not around to beat you to within an inch of your life. |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 535113 | 2007-03-22 13:04:00 | Well, the clip pretty clearly shows it probably wasn't night time. The rest is a bit indistinct. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 535114 | 2007-03-22 13:25:00 | Meh, Tasers work so we have nothing to worry about on that front plus the police are getting practice in using them so when they need to Taser someone again, they'll have more experience which can only be a better thing. But seriously, get over it and be thankful that the cops are ready to use the Taser and not be all "Oh yeah sorry, we apologize" and the rest of the apologist c**p. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 535115 | 2007-03-22 21:22:00 | Now tell me anyone here if you were beaten up by thugs, run away and then hit by a car finally to resist police arrest?Of course I would've resisted arrest under those circumstances. In fact if he had a lethal weapon available at the time, in self-defence he would've been entitled to use it against all four of the mongrels. :mad: | Tum Tum (12017) | ||
| 535116 | 2007-03-22 21:23:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 535117 | 2007-03-22 22:20:00 | Might pay to remember that this is around the same area that an innocent bystander got stabbed to death in the middle of the day not so long ago. Maybe the Police were being 'extra careful' rather than 'over zealous'. And no, I don't agree with tasers- but they are preferable to guns. The proviso being that if they are only used as an alternative in the same situations. There could be a tendency to use them to save the police officer time or agro that he/she would otherwise deal with. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 535118 | 2007-03-22 22:58:00 | Maybe the Police were being 'extra careful' rather than 'over zealous'. Extra careful is when you remove sharp objects from within a baby's reach. The same attitude should be applied to our police - they're the least qualified f'ers in the country to have access to dangerous weapons. | Tum Tum (12017) | ||
| 535119 | 2007-03-22 23:03:00 | Man - that clip shows the whole complete story doesn't it including everything that happened leading up to that few seconds of blurry video. Perhaps the Police should just start letting people go on the side of the road if their friends say they didnt do anything, or that they've got the worng guy. That combined with offenders knowing they should just get into a car chase and Police will probably be told to pull out will really make for a lawful society where offenders get punished for their trangressions. :2cents: |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 535120 | 2007-03-22 23:28:00 | Duh. Of course the clip doesn't show everything. But an impartial witness'es comments to the TV crew says a lot. Perhaps we should just let the local constabulary act as if we're in the Ukraine, Bolivia or some other lawless third world country where a gun and a badge give the right to act like the Mafia. |
Greg (193) | ||
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