Sorry, got to post this...

This type of thing just puts back police /public relations by years.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxI4...e_gdata_player

[21QUEST]

...and that's with a camera rolling.

I wonder if they all stuck together

[Matt-EUC]

If you read the description below, the bloke filming just sounds like a c0ck. Being intentionally difficult in court just to sound clever, what an obnoxious, arrogant ****.

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by Matt-EUC

If you read the description below, the bloke filming just sounds like a c0ck. Being intentionally difficult in court just to sound clever, what an obnoxious, arrogant ****.

You watched the whole video and you are talking about some bloke sounding like a coc*?... you cannae be serious.

coc* like that possibly do more good helping bent coppers to possibly think(probably unlikely but one can live in hope) about how they treat the next person...who could possibly be your very self.

I get why you have written what you have but that's nothing compared to the bent c0cks on video.

[tigersaw]

He sounds a right **** to me too.
All he had to do, after being asked many times, was to take a breath test and then he could have gone home.
Unless he'd been drinking of course.

If indeed it was the morning and his breath did smell of alcohol and he had been witnessed arriving in his car that's one thing.

But the first copper clearly just invents the story and for that he should lose his job... and pension. He's bent!

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[BanannaMan]

Hmmm... of course I live in a nazi police state but looks to me like he asked for it and he got it.


Police are dealing with an unpleasent situation trying to break up a protest. (right or wrong following orders)

1. He is across the Police line up close filming.
(which incites others)

2. He is asked to move behind the line but does not.

3. He has to be escorted away at which time....

4. The officer smells alcohol on his breath.

The copper is trying to clear the area. This barsteward is being a c0ck.
So when it's discovered he's been drinking, the (first) cop burnt him because he could, simples.

Had he been drink driving? Given his reponses and breath test refusal, without a doubt.

I seriously doubt this copper has any real habit of this, this bloke just picked the wrong time and place to act like a drunk c0ck.

What kind of outcome was he expecting with the Police?

Originally Posted by tigersaw

He sounds a right **** to me too.
All he had to do, after being asked many times, was to take a breath test and then he could have gone home.
Unless he'd been drinking of course.

Are you for real?
The bloke was being a pita granted, but tensions are high regarding this fracking issue, the guy filming was an appointed observer not a rent a swampy, the copper knew his name.

If I was in the street as a pedestrian I would take offence to a roadside breadth test too and I'd refuse under those circumstances, the copper had zero evidence, so what if the guy arrived in his car? How does the copper know that he didn't have a drink in the time since he parked up? (if at all).

Being an obnoxious git doesn't give corrupt police the right to invent offences against you.

[BanannaMan]

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Originally Posted by Specialone

Being an obnoxious git doesn't give corrupt police the right to invent offences against you.

No but doing so at the wrong place and time almost gaurantees it.


Seriously look at what else is going on.
Get up in the middle of a police scene being a drunken c0ck and see what happens.

What happened here would be routine in the US.
Except you can't argue or talk back to police here. (without grave consequences)

Still say he asked for it.

[Red Herring]

Not the best demonstration of police communication skills granted.

What I will contribute from personal experience is that there is a whole lot more information involved than may appear on the video. At events like this you generally very quickly get to know certain key players (and the "video man" is one of them) and you tend to work with, rather than against them, which is probably why the man with the camera was allowed out of the line and able to film the arrest of his colleague. It is also apparent from what is on the film that the officer knows him, knows his vehicle (he described it as a blue Mercedes) and the implication from what he was saying is that he saw him arrive in it earlier in the day.

Given those circumstances, and his suspicion that he had consumed alcohol (not helped I admit by him mishearing "I've had tea" as "I've had two") he does technically have a power to require a breath test.

(3) [...] if a [police] constable reasonably suspects that the person has been driving, attempting to drive or in charge of a motor vehicle on a road or other public place while having alcohol or a drug in his body or while unfit to drive because of a drug, and still has alcohol or a drug in his body or is still under the influence of a drug.... " He can require a breath test.


Unfortunately from there, due largely to the officers communication style, things go rapidly downhill.

All in all a poor show but I would stop short of throwing corruption allegations around.