Police Pulled Disabled man from Wheelchair during Student protests
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It has just been announced on the news that a disabled person who was at last student protest was pulled from his wheelchair by Met Police. If he wasn't doing nothing apart from protesting then why were the police heavy handed. Yes there was some that was casuing riots and should be dealt with accordingly, but a disabled person cannot defend himself.
The Police Complaints Commission will be getting in touch with the person.
The Police Complaints Commission will be getting in touch with the person.
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Kidding, calm down :rolleyes:
Will that help any case he wants to bring against the police?
YES!! I cannot wait to see left wingers getting thrown back 100ft by jets of water.
God, I'd love to use water cannons on that lot. Hell, give me an actual Howitzer :
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Nowt wrong with that. We shouldn't treat the disabled any differently if they're chucking stuff.
I doubt the cops decided to pull him out just for the fun of it, he was obviously being a shit and thought being in a chair would protect him.
"We found ourselves in a large no-mans-land, in between the riot police trying to stop the crowd, and the police horses getting ready to charge. I turned in my wheelchair to face the police. “Move out of the way!” one of the mounted police shouted at me. I shook my head.
From the corner of my eye, I spotted one of the policemen from the earlier incident. He recognised me immediately. Officer KF936 came charging towards me. Tipping the wheelchair to the side, he pushed me onto the concrete, before grabbing my arms and dragging me across the road. The crowd of 200 ran and surrounded him. I got back up and stood in front of the horses"
The last line I find somewhat interesting, especially when apparently in his own blog the chap refers to walking up the stairs to get on the roof of Millbank.
Interesting. Cops probably knew he could walk.
Video is hard to make out, but he definitely tries to get to his feet at one point.
Just a chancer then, no story here.
To those trying to justify it I must say the guy looks a right dangerous character. :rolleyes:
I hope he makes a complaint so we can see how seriously the police deal with one of their own who would treat a disabled man like that.
According to the guy himself, the mounted Police were getting ready to charge.
He (in his wheelchair) was directly in between the Police and the rest of the protesters. The Police told him to "get out of the way" which he refused to do. A cop runs in, grabs him and drags him "across the road".
Lets set aside the fact that (again in his own words) he got up and stood in front of the horses do you really think it would have been a great idea for the Mounted Branch to have charged and flattened the guy in his chair?
Nobody can defend the police here, not even a torie
I get the impression that had the Police lifted him clear and given him a nice cup of tea, you'd still be moaning about the Police denying him his right to protest.
Try and get real.
The question is - were the police targetting a disabled man or were they removing him out of harm's way or were they treating him like everybody else?
The investigation will sort things out
The MET have referred it to the Professional Standards Department to investigate.
The answer to that question is incredibly simple, and everyone here already knows the answer.
If someone is in a wheelchair you wheel them out of the way.
You do not pull them out of the chair, on to the concrete (could have hit his head, or broken an arm or leg), and then drag him across the tarmac. It didn't have to be done in 10 seconds. If they have taken a bit more time they could have wheeled him away ---- he was on wheels :eek::eek::eek::rolleyes: They chose to use violence.
Couldn't have put it better myself and they did it twice
Or they chose to use the most expeditious way to get a fool who was refusing to move out of the way, before he got seriously hurt.
But he said that he refused to move
I'm not trying to pre-judge one way or another - is it police brutality against a disabled man or is it an activist using his disability as a weapon against the police?
We can't tell one way or another - the video is vague enough to show each side of the argument what they want to see.