Absolutely Right Too

[Bobbisox1]

And Cressida Dick ( I'd change that name by deed poll) said the police who've " taken the knee" did it to appease a hostile crowd, she's not banning them doing it but said they should not, as far as our military go, they have been banned from doing it , a right decision in my opinion

https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/01/british-military-banned-taking-knee-support-black-lives-matter-12929414/

[dannyk13]

Totally agree, I find the whole concept of the armed forces or the police 'taking the knee' to be demeaning.

[Bobbisox1]

They are meant to be impartial, it's a sad day when our police felt they had to this just to appease an unruly mob

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/met-police-blm-take-knee-cressida-dick-a9631811.html

[Baldric]

The Police should be banned from doing it as well, the whole thing is getting daft imo.

[woofgang]

I dunno......shall we have a riot, risk injury to the public and to police officers, damage to property and so on and so forth.....or shall we do something to defuse the situation? Yes police should be impartial but they are also there not to make matters worse.

[ichkeria]

Troilus Fanny would kill
for a name like that ...

[Bobbisox1]

A good point would be to say , police kneeling in front of a hostile crowd would be very vulnerable

[dannyk13]

woofy // Yes police should be impartial but they are also there not to make matters worse.//
They are also not there to kow-tow to unruly mobs.There job is to keep the peace.It is difficult to do that when they are seen to lose their authority.

[douglas9401]

Appeasement, it always works.

No inch should be given.

[naomi24]

The police/military should just do the job - and conceding to mob rule isn't doing the job.

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[Peter Pedant]

armed forces and police are different
armed forces damned well do as they are told

police wonder what their union / fed is gonna say

fr'instance - after the Liverpool mairder, the police started wearing a black union jack or a black on black one wivva thin blue line darn the middle

to commemorate

and the people in Manch were less than pleased to be told they were commemorating one dead policeman whilst they were clearing up the mess after 22 dead children were blown to pieces

also fiddling around wivva police uniform is against the law innit? Only a policeman can wear a police uniform which is strictly defined so if you sew a union flag onto it - - it converts it into a non-uniform.
or something - retro strangely silent - may comment

the police are different to the armed forces

some some statements here are so shocking I wd understand if it were zeroed

[Peter Pedant]

erm police police by consent innit

I cant remember the army invading by consent
( normandy 1944 - no landings - debarquements - oops sozza forbidden word! - anyway NOT an invasion)

Japan invading China 1932 after the wun long - - - er wong chow mine event - no that was confected and the chinese certainly DIDNT want a japanese occupier ( bu hao xi xi)

Czechoslovakia by Brezhnev - er they were invited in but not by Dubcek (*)

just saying on a light morning

[woofgang]

Bobbi, she did....said it might not be a safe thing to do.

[woofgang]

PP I found an article about the black union jacks and yes adding anything to a police uniform renders the policeman "out of uniform" At the time of the black union jack incident (who ever thought that was a good idea?) an "urgent review" was requested but I can't see that it ever happened https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/police-to-review-uniform-policy-after-officer-forced-to-remove-union-jack-badge-10049732.html

[Bazile]

They should be lying prostate ( or is it prostrate ) in support

[Gromit]

// Cressida Dick said the police who've " taken the knee" did it to appease a hostile crowd //

She said no such thing. She said she thought it was dangerous to do take the knee, which is why she advises her Officers not to do it.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/andrew-castle/take-the-knee-black-lives-matter-protests-london/

[dannyk13]

Slightly off thread but a thought just crossed my mind.If Cressida married tony Head and took the hyphenated surname....

[Bobbisox1]

Gromit, i saw a small section of what she said this morning and in that she stated 'they faced a hostile crowd and felt it better to do this that not....okay??????

[Bobbisox1]

Dannyk, now that made me smile :-))

[Old_Geezer]

Of course they should be banned from doing it. Supporting a racist group is a political act and the force must be neutral.