[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

So he didn't even try to follow procedure? He waded right in and tackled the suspect after he assumed the wrong thing?

There are procedures for handling these situations with clear and defined guidelines as to when reasonable force should be used.. Hitting him with a boot to put him to the ground without first issuing a warning is not the way anyone is trained.. Every soldier should be trained as every soldier (even techies) are asked to perform guard duty, this involved training for approaching and apprehending suspects and prisoners.. It's not as though they couldn;t see he was unarmed as they already stated he was cuffed..

I'm not saying that he didn't think that he was doing the right thing and in that respect I'd love to know what actions the Captain took?? Typical Sgt though jumped in assuming the worse and only then thinks of the implications..

I'd be surprised if there still wasn't more to this story and would be interested in seeing the official report

However it still should not have got to the point that they decided to ruin the lives of these two soldiers. There is far worse goes on every Friday and Saturday night in our towns and cities and you don't see this level of punishment going on for that. Bloody hell i did far worse than this on a few nights in Belfast and Londonderry during the riots.