How is this not just torture?
More puzzling to me is how those two officers can face a one-legged confused old man wielding a dull fruit knife sitting in a wheelchair in a home and douse him in bear spray, electrocute him with a taser and beat him with a collapsible baton like he was some dangerous street thug, seemingly without any hint of humanity guiding their actions.
Police are human beings too. I’ll never understand what kind of brainwashing can turn human beings, who most likely love their parents like most everybody else, into inhumane disabled grandpa beaters like those two maniacs.
apparently the president couldn’t make it there in time to make fun of him first
This was in the UK.
Stand up! Stop resisting!
It’s sad that Burgess was attacked by the officers leading to him being sent to a hospital where he may have caught Covid-19 and died, but the officers
- were called out on “a grade 1 call, meaning it was treated as the highest level of emergency”,
- may have heard that Burgess “was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife”,
- may not have seen or been told Burgess couldn’t reach them if they stayed a few metres away.
If Burgess was in an unlocked room, then the officers were criminally rash.
If however he was in a room locked from the outside, then they may not have known that he wasn’t much of a threat.
They should be charged with excessive force because they didn’t assess the situation before using force, or people at the site should be charged for lying and making it seem much more dangerous than it was; but this is not like the headline makes it sound.
I’ve always wondered: does boot taste better than ass?
