Originally Posted by jem
OK fine, but the video clips you link to don't exactly match your deathless prose description of what happened does it? A ‘white’ lad being attacked by four ‘africans?’, when a woman police office wades in (without identifying herself, despite being in uniform) and just arrested the 'white lad’ for no reason. It gives the impression of this ‘white lad’ laying on the floor, having the proverbial kicked out of him by four Africans’ when the police turn up and basically say, ‘right off you go lads, we’ll take it form here, and arrest the ‘white lad’ for basically damaging the ‘Aficans' shoes’.
Except that’s not what the video shows it is?
I saw one person attempting to hold two others apart, attempting to defuse the situation. I see one, maybe two people assault ‘white lad’, knock him down and run off, clearly pursued by another police officer.
The ‘white lad’ does clearly assault the police office, which is why he was arrested, oh and clearly was resisting being put in the car.
Now self defence is NOT a claim to not be arrested, it is a defence against conviction.
Hypothetically, I live in an isolated cottage, and have a valid firearms licence. One night my home is broken into, I fear for my life and threaten the assailants with my shotgun’, they ignore it and advance and I shoot them dead.
I immediately call the police, who arrive and find two dead bodies and me with a shotgun; of course I’ll be arrested; which is good, because it actually gives me certain rights.
The police will do their investigation, find that both assailants were shot in the front, (not in the back hence running away), one had a knife....the CPS wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole; obvious case of self defence, no jury will convict.
Sometimes things are more complex then they might seem at first.
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